Description
Book Synopsis* A thorough and comprehensive collection of current thought on progressive politics * Includes an introduction that lays out the different debates clearly and concisely * Incorporates pieces by many leading international commentators on third way politics.
Trade Review"This symposium comes nearer to anything I have yet read to stating a coherent and convincing case for a progressive politics that is neither market liberal nor socialist. There is not a dud or tired contribution on board."
Bernard Crick, Emeritus Professor of Politics, Birkbeck College, London University "Henry Tam has put together a stimulating collection of articles that seek to create a form of progressive politics skeptical of both free market utopias and all-powerful states" Derek Wall, Democratization
Table of ContentsPreface.
Notes on Contributors.
Introduction (Henry Tam).
Progressive Politics in the Global Age (Henry Tam).
Part I: Progressive Ideas.
1. Cultural Resources for a Progressive Alternative (Robert N. Bellah and William M. Sullivan).
2. New Liberalism Revisited (Stuart White and Marc Stears).
3. Federalism & the Personalist Tradition (Ferdinand Kinsky).
4. Solidarity in Theory and Practice (Wlodzimierz Wesolowski and Aneta Gawkowska).
5. A Quest for Community (Philip Selznick).
Part II: Families, Citizens & The State.
6. Citizenship Begins at Home: Support for Working Families in the New Social Contract (Linda C. McClain).
7. Toward a Progressive Family Policy: The Family Unity Act (David M. Anderson).
8. Family and the Politics of Community Life (Jose Perez Adan).
9. Dignity, Citizenship & Welfare (Joseph Romance).
Part III: Power & Democracy.
10. Public Service and Active Citizenship (Kevin Mattson).
11. Modernizing Government (John Stewart).
12. Corporate Power in the New Gilded Age (Charles Derber).
13. The Need for More Democracy (Benjamin R Barber).
Part IV: Globalization and New Challenges.
14. The Threat of Globalization to Democracy and the Environment (Mark S Cladis).
15. Rhetoric and Reality of a New Politics for the Global Age (David Donnison).
16. Beyond Growth: New Progressive Economic Thinking (David Dyssegaard Kallick).
17. Globalization, Exclusion and the Prospects For Progressive Economic Policies (Bill Jordan).
18. Navigating Through Uncharted Waters: Global Communities and Our Common Futures (Wim van de Donk, Ernst M. H. Hirsch Ballin and Richard Steenvoorde).
Index.
