Democracy, Pluralization and Voice

This article explores different theoretical and political dimensions of voice in democratic theory. Drawing on recent developments in political theory, ranging from James Bohman?s work on the movement from demos to demoi in transnational politics, to William Connolly?s writings on pluralization, it develops a critical account of the emphasis within conventional pluralism on the representation of extant identities. Instead, it foregrounds the need to engage with emerging identities, demands, and claims that fall outside the parameters of dominant discursive orders. Building on the works of Ranciere and Cavell, it highlights the importance of an analytical engagement with the emergence and articulation of new struggles and voices -the processes through which inchoate demands are given political expression- so as to counter the ongoing possibilities of domination, understood here as a ?deprivation of voice.? The article develops an account of the centrality of the category of responsiveness to such claims and demands for democratic theory, especially in relation to a range of democratic struggles in our contemporary world. In so doing, it contributes to a growing body of work that questions the taken for granted character and status of the institutional forms of liberal democracy

Moral perfectionism and democratic responsiveness: reading Cavell with Foucault

Starting from existing interpretations of Cavell's account of moral perfectionism, this article seeks to elaborate an account of democratic responsiveness that foregrounds notions of 'turning' and 'manifesting for another'. In contrast to readings of Cavell that privilege reason-giving, the article draws on the writings of Cavell as well as on Foucault's work on parrēsia to elaborate a grammar of responsiveness that is attentive to a wider range of practices, forms of embodiment and modes of subjectivity. The article suggests that a focus on the notions of 'turning' and 'manifesting for another' is crucial if we are to account for the processes through which political imagination is opened up so as to bring about novel ways of being and acting. The arguments are illustrated with reference to recent events in the Arab Spring as well as to the politics of redress in a posttransitional social movement, Khulumani

Job Performance Comparisons - Mexican-American and Anglo Employees

A comparison of job performance of Mexican-American and non-Mexican-American employees in various city departments and in a large department store measured absentee rates, accident rates, efficiency ratings, promotional test scores, and sales records. The conclusions revealed that Mexican-Americans meet the same qualifications as non-Mexican-Americans in employment areas.Sociolog

Discourse Analysis: varieties and methods

This paper presents and analyses six key approaches to discourse analysis, including political discourse theory, rhetorical political analysis, the discourse historical approach in critical discourse analysis, interpretive policy analysis, discursive psychology and Q methodology. It highlights differences and similarities between the approaches along three distinctive dimensions, namely, ontology, focus and purpose. Our analysis reveals the difficulty of arriving at a fundamental matrix of dimensions which would satisfactorily allow one to organize all approaches in a coherent theoretical framework. However, it does not preclude various theoretical articulations between the different approaches, provided one takes a problem-driven approach to social science as one?s starting-point

Innovations in Policing: A Review of \u3cem\u3eThe New Blue Line\u3c/em\u3e

A Review of The New Blue Line: Police Innovation in Six American Cities by Jerome H. Skolnick and David H. Bayle

Keynote Address: Predators and Politics

The following article is a transcription of portions of Mr. Morris\u27s keynote address presented at the Predators and Politics Symposium on March 9, 1992 at the University of Puget Sound School of Law

Keynote Address: Predators and Politics

The following article is a transcription of portions of Mr. Morris\u27s keynote address presented at the Predators and Politics Symposium on March 9, 1992 at the University of Puget Sound School of Law

Francis A. Allen

A tribute to Francis A. Alle