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[p. 1] ; column 4 ; 2 col. in. ; A letter from William Smith describing the barren and desolate nature of the Salt Lake Valley; the letter discourages settlement in Utah and suggests that the government set up a military post there.

Ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Literature review -- ch. 3. Research issues and questions -- ch. 4. Research method : sample design -- ch. 5. Research method : pass-through estimation -- ch. 6. Research method : research design -- ch. 7. Data analysis and results -- ch. 8. Conclusions.

Why should I be moral? Philosophers have long been concerned with the legitimacy of morality's claim on us-especially its ostensible aim to motivate certain actions of all persons unconditionally. This problem of moral normativity has received extensive treatment in analytic moral theory, but little attention has been paid to the potential contribution that phenomenology might make to this central debate in metaethics. In The Phenomenology of Moral Normativity, William H. Smith takes up the question of morality's legitimacy anew, drawing contemporary moral philosophers into conversation with the phenomenological philosophy of Husserl, Heidegger, and Levinas. Utilizing a two-part account of moral normativity, Smith contends that the ground of morality itself is second-personal-rooted in the ethical demand intrinsic to other persons -while the ground for particular moral-obligations is first-personal-rooted in the subject's avowal or endorsement of certain moral norms within a concrete historical situation. Thus, Smith argues, phenomenological analysis allows us to make sense of an idea that has long held intuitive appeal, but that modern moral philosophy has been unable to render satisfactorily: namely, that the normative source of valid moral claims is simply other persons and what we owe to them.

Introduction: Institutions, Actors, and Processes in the Transformation of Latin American Democracy / William C. Smith -- Part I: Debates on Democracy and Performance -- Liberal and Illiberal Democracy in Latin America / Peter H. Smith and Melissa R. Ziegler -- Neoliberalism and Democracy in Latin America: A Mixed Record / Kurt Weyland -- The Uneven Performance of Third Wave Democracies: Electoral Politics and the Imperfect Rule of Law in Latin America / Joe Foweraker and Roman Krznaric -- Part II: Institutions and the Travails of Competitive Politics -- The Reelection Debate in Latin America / John M. Carey -- Decentralization's Nondemocratic Roots: Authoritarianism and Subnational Reform tn Latin America / Kent Eaton -- Institutional Change and Ethnic Parties in South America / Donna Lee Van Cott -- Expanding Accountability Through Participatory Institutions: Mayors, Citizens, and Budgeting in Three Brazilian Municipalities / Brian Wampler -- "For a Few Senators More"? Negotiating Constitutional Cbanges During Chile's Transition to Democracy / Fredrik Uggla -- Judicial Reform as Insurance Policy: Mexico in the 1990s / Jodi S. Finkel -- Part III: Actors, Participation, and Mass Politics -- Indigenous Parties and Democracy in Latin America / Raul L. Madrid -- Defining Rights in Democratization: The Argentine Government and Human Rights Organizations, 1983-2003 / Michelle D. Bonner -- Sources of Mass Partisanship in Brazil / David Samuels -- Brazil's Agrarian Reform: Democratic Innovation or Oligarchic Exclusion Redux? / Anthony W. Pereira -- The Indian Movement and Political Democracy in Ecuador / Leon Zamosc -- Local Democracy and the Transformation of Popular Participation in Chile / Paul W. Posner -- Part IV Challenges of Unstructured Political Mobilization -- Indictments, Myths, and Citizen Mobilization in Argentina: A Discourse Analysis / Ariel C. Armony and Victor Armony -- Democracy Without Parties? Political Parties and Regime Change in Fujimori's Peru / Steven Levitsky and Maxwell A. Cameron -- Social Correlates of Party System Demise and Populist Resurgence in Venezuela / Kenneth M. Roberts

Territory and community -- Rebellion, representation, and reform -- "Lord in our own house" -- Reformation and revolution -- The limits of obedience -- A plague of preachers -- Orthodoxy and order -- The Christian commune -- Cuius regio? -- The stool of wickedness