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Feminist perspectives on abortion, divorce, employment, and related issues; US; 6 articles.

In the current neo-liberal political and economic climate, it is often suggested that a large and strong state stands in opposition to an autonomous and vibrant civil society. However, the simultaneous presence in Sweden of both a famously large public sector and an unusually vital civil society poses an interesting and important theoretical challenge to these views with serious political and policy implications. Studies show that in a comparative context Sweden scores very highly when it comes to the strength and vitality of its civil society as well as social capital, as measured in terms of trust, lack of corruption, and membership of voluntary associations. The "Swedish Model," therefore, offers important insights into the dynamics of state and civil society relations, which go against current trends of undermining the importance of the welfare state, and presents autonomous civic participation as the only way forward

Deciding what is and what is not political is a fraught, perhaps intractably opaque matter. Just who decides the question; on what grounds; to what ends—these seem like properly political questions themselves. Deciding what is political and what is not can serve to contain and restrain struggles, make existing power relations at once self-evident and opaque, and blur the possibility of reimagining them differently. Political Concepts seeks to revive our common political vocabulary—both everyday and academic—and to do so critically. Its entries take the form of essays in which each contributor presents her or his own original reflection on a concept posed in the traditional Socratic question format "What is X?" and asks what sort of work a rethinking of that concept can do for us now.The explicitness of a radical questioning of this kind gives authors both the freedom and the authority to engage, intervene in, critique, and transform the conceptual terrain they have inherited. Each entry, either implicitly or explicitly, attempts to re-open the question "What is political thinking?" Each is an effort to reinvent political writing. In this setting the political as such may be understood as a property, a field of interest, a dimension of human existence, a set of practices, or a kind of event. Political Concepts does not stand upon a decided concept of the political but returns in practice and in concern to the question "What is the political?" by submitting the question to a field of plural contention.The concepts collected in Political Concepts are "Arche" (Stathis Gourgouris), "Blood" (Gil Anidjar), "Colony" (Ann Laura Stoler), "Concept" (Adi Ophir), "Constituent Power" (Andreas Kalyvas), "Development" (Gayatri Spivak), "Exploitation" (Étienne Balibar), "Federation" (Jean Cohen), "Identity" (Akeel Bilgrami), "Rule of Law" (J. M. Bernstein), "Sexual Difference" (Joan Copjec), and "Translation" (Jacques Lezra)

Introduction : forms of pluralism and democratic constitutionalism / Andrew Arato and Jean L. Cohen -- Federation, confederation, territorial state : debating a post-imperial future in French West Africa, 1945-1960 / Fred Cooper -- Decolonization and postnational democracy / Gary Wilder -- From the American system to Anglo-Saxon union : scientific racism and supra-nationalism in nineteenth-century North America / Joshua Simon -- Constitutions and forms of pluralism in the time of conquest : the French debates over the colonization of Algeria in the 1830s and 1840s / Emmanuelle Saada -- The constitutional identity of indigenous peoples in Canada : status groups or federal actors? / Patrick Macklem -- Federacy and the Kurds : might this new political form help mitigate Hobbesian conflicts in Turkey, Iraq, and Syria? / Alfred Stepan and Jeff Miley -- Europe-what's left : towards a progressive pluralist program for EU reform / Robert Howse -- Subsidiarity and the challenge to the sovereign state / Nadia Urbinati -- Indian secularism and its challenges / Christophe Jaffrelot -- Tainted liberalism : Israel's millets / Michael Karayanni -- Jurisdictional competition and internal reform in Muslim family law in Israel and Greece / Yuksel Sezgin -- Corporate legal particularism / Katharina Pistor -- Tax competition and the unbundling of sovereignty / Tsilly Dagan -- The politics of horizontal inequality : indigenous opposition to wind energy development in Mexico / Courtney Jung -- Conclusion : territorial pluralism and language communities / Astrid von Busekist

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- CONTRIBUTORS -- PART ONE: INTRODUCTION: SOURCES OF CULTURAL CONFLICT -- CHAPTER ONE Introduction: The Ideological Discourse of Cultural Discontent -- CHAPTER TWO The Culture of Discontent -- PART TWO: HOW MUCH HAS REALLY CHANGED -- CHAPTER THREE Cultural Responses to Immigration -- CHAPTER FOUR Preserving the Republic by Educating Republicans -- CHAPTER FIVE Racial Issues: Recent Trends in Residential Patterns and Intermarriage -- CHAPTER SIX Immigration, Opportunity, and Social Cohesion -- CHAPTER SEVEN Family Change and Family Diversity -- CHAPTER EIGHT Contesting the Moral Boundaries of Eros -- PART THREE: SOCIAL CHANGE AND NEW FORMS OF SOCIAL CONNECTION -- CHAPTER NINE Multiple Markets: Multiple Cultures -- CHAPTER TEN Uncommon Values, Diversity, and Conflict in City Life -- CHAPTER ELEVEN Changes in the Civic Role of Religion -- PART FOUR: RETHINKING DIVERSITY AND SOCIAL SOLIDARITY -- CHAPTER TWELVE National Culture and Communities of Descent -- CHAPTER THIRTEEN Does Voluntary Association Make Democracy Work -- CHAPTER FOURTEEN Civil Society and the Politics of Identity and Difference in a Global Context -- INDEX