Nancy Rosenblum

Membership and Morals

In recent years, membership has dropped in traditional voluntary associations such as Rotary Clubs, Jaycees, and bowling leagues. At the same time, concern is rising about the growth of paramilitary and hate groups. Scholars have warned that these trends are undermining civic society by creating a ...

Nature and History in American Political Development: A Debate (Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics)

In this inaugural volume of the Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures, political scientist James Ceaser traces the way certain ideas, including nature, history, and religion—which he calls foundational ideas—have been understood and used by statesmen and public intellectuals over the course of American hi...

Breaking the Cycles of Hatred: Memory, Law, and Repair

Violence so often begets violence. Victims respond with revenge only to inspire seemingly endless cycles of retaliation. Conflicts between nations, between ethnic groups, between strangers, and between family members differ in so many ways and yet often share this dynamic. In this powerful and timel...

Thoreau: Political Writings (Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought)

Thoreau's political writing is intensely personal and direct. Both his life and work focus uncompromisingly on the question "how should I live?". This edition of Thoreau's political essays includes "Civil Disobedience", selections from Walden, and the anti-slavery addresses. In her introduction, Nan...

Civil Society and Government.

Civil Society and Government brings together an unprecedented array of political, ethical, and religious perspectives to shed light on the complex and much-debated relationship between civil society and the state. Some argue that civil society is a bulwark against government; others see it as an in...

An Appreciation of Partisanship (Cato Unbound Book 22009)

We all know what the conventional wisdom says about political parties: They're divisive. They represent special interests. They ignore the general welfare. They corrupt. They tend to produce bribery in practice and hackery in writing. In partisan politics, everyone cheers for their own side, and we ...

Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith

Of the many challenges facing liberal democracy, none is as powerful and pervasive today as those posed by religion. These are the challenges taken up in Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith, an exploration of the place of religion in contemporary public life. The essays in this volume su...

On the Side of the Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship

Political parties are the defining institutions of representative democracy and the darlings of political science. Their governing and electoral functions are among the chief concerns of the field. Yet most political theorists--including democratic theorists--ignore or disparage parties as grubby ar...

Thoreau: Political Writings

Political Writings

Nature And History in American Political Development: A Debate

Another Liberalism: Romanticism and the Reconstruction of Liberal Thought

Bentham's Theory of the Modern State

Liberalism and the Moral Life

Liberalism and the Moral Life

Obligations of Citizenship and Demands of Faith: Religious Accommodation in Pluralistic Societies