Cultural Pluralism
In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 262, Heft 1, S. 117-130
ISSN: 1552-3349
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In: The annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Band 262, Heft 1, S. 117-130
ISSN: 1552-3349
In: Scottish journal of political economy: the journal of the Scottish Economic Society, Band 5, Heft 1, S. 1-14
ISSN: 1467-9485
In: The journal of economic history, Band 22, Heft 4, S. 427-444
ISSN: 1471-6372
It is not chauvinism or instinctive egocentrism that leads Americans to believe they have evolved a beneficent form of economic organization. For despite all its shortcomings, and, alas, they are all too many, our volitional economy has demonstrated a capacity to stimulate human effort, increase investment, improve productivity, and gradually erode diat greatest evil of all commonwealths, perceived since Plato's days: the coexistence of great wealth and abject poverty. It is therefore entirely appropriate this year, when we are commemorating two great experiments in democratic public policy, that we should examine once again the origins of our polity, for I am convinced that it was the conscious and unashamed acceptance of a system of politico-economic pluralism that made possible the vigor and the catholicity of our developing institutions. The play of these pluralistic forces again and again has saved us from hardened dogma, so that the real virtue of our history—political, economic, and intellectual—has been our flexibility, our capacity to adapt ideas and instrumentalities to tasks of high social urgency. In the process we have created an economy so complex that it almost defies description, but one so tolerant ideologically that it can be called essentially private by those who find happiness in that ascription although there can be no burking the very obvious fact that it is today inherently socialistic. For whereas one can demonstrate statistically that two thirds of all capital formation is private, by an equally plausible demonstration it can be shown that, adding corporate and personal income taxes only, more than two thirds of the revenues of American enterprise are socialized. This mixed economy is, therefore, the great, ever-improving American invention, based on the quintessential content of our variant of democracy whose trinitarian elements have been well defined as shared respect, shared power, and shared knowledge.
In: The Australian National University, Social Science Monographs 12
In: Kyklos: international review for social sciences, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 181-185
ISSN: 1467-6435
In: Australian quarterly: AQ, Band 31, Heft 1, S. 120
ISSN: 1837-1892
In: Midwest journal of political science: publication of the Midwest Political Science Association, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 94
In: The Western political quarterly, Band 14, Heft 3, S. 793
ISSN: 1938-274X
In: The Western political quarterly, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 1145
ISSN: 1938-274X
In: Bibliothèque des Sciences politiques et sociales
In: Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 83,5
In: The review of politics, Band 10, S. 412
ISSN: 0034-6705
In: The review of politics, Band 10, Heft 4, S. 412-426
ISSN: 1748-6858
The American party system has been under attack almost continuously since it took definite form in the time of Andrew Jackson. The criticism has always been dircted at the same point: America's political pluralism, the distinctively American organization of government by compromise of interests, pressure groups and sections. And the aim of the critics from Thaddeus Stevens to Henry Wallace has always been to substitute for this "unprincipled" pluralism a government based as in Europe on "ideologies" and "principles." But never before—at least not since the Civil War years—has the crisis been as acute as in this last decade; for the political problems which dominate our national life today: foreign policy and industrial policy, are precisely the problems which interest and pressure-group compromise is least equipped to handle. And while the crisis symptoms: a left-wing Thirl Party and the threatened split-off of the Southern Wing, are more alarming in the Democratic Party, the Republicans are hardly much better off. The 1940 boom for the "idealist" Wilkie and the continued inability to attract a substantial portion of the labor vote, are definite signs that the Republican Party too is under severe ideological pressure.
From the Rice Thresher Archive, a collection of newspaper articles published in the student newspaper for Rice University. Genre: News
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In: American anthropologist: AA, Band 63, Heft 1, S. 155-157
ISSN: 1548-1433