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Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1993 - November) No. 5, Maine Women's Lobby Staff
Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1993 - November) No. 5, Maine Women's Lobby Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1993 - August) No. 4, Maine Women's Lobby Staff
Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1993 - August) No. 4, Maine Women's Lobby Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1993 - April) No. 3, Maine Women's Lobby Staff
Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1993 - April) No. 3, Maine Women's Lobby Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1993 - March) No. 2, Maine Women's Lobby Staff
Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1993 - March) No. 2, Maine Women's Lobby Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1993 - January) No. 1, Maine Women's Lobby Staff
Maine Women's Lobby News Letter (1993 - January) No. 1, Maine Women's Lobby Staff
Maine Women's Publications - All
No abstract provided.
Markets And States In Development: India's Reformers And The East Asian Experience, Shalendra Sharma
Markets And States In Development: India's Reformers And The East Asian Experience, Shalendra Sharma
Politics
No abstract provided.
Democratic Discussion, Don Herzog, Donald R. Kinder
Democratic Discussion, Don Herzog, Donald R. Kinder
Book Chapters
"Democracy," remarked H. L. Mencken, "is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard." Mencken found American politics a droll spectacle and showered contempt on the dullards he named "the booboisie." Plenty of other intelligent and perceptive observers have concluded that ordinary citizens are flatly incapable of shouldering the burdens of democracy. Uninformed and uninterested, absorbed in the pressing business of private life, unable to trace out the consequences of political action, citizens possess neither the skills nor the resources required for what Walter Bagehot pithily named "government by discussion." …
Ways To Think About The Unitary Executive: A Comment On Approaches To Government Structure, Michael A. Fitts
Ways To Think About The Unitary Executive: A Comment On Approaches To Government Structure, Michael A. Fitts
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Self-Regulation, Normative Choice, And The Structure Of Corporate Fiduciary Law, William W. Bratton
Self-Regulation, Normative Choice, And The Structure Of Corporate Fiduciary Law, William W. Bratton
All Faculty Scholarship
No abstract provided.
Grounds For Political Judgment: The Status Of Personal Experience And The Autonomy And Generality Of Principles Of Restraint, Kent Greenawalt
Grounds For Political Judgment: The Status Of Personal Experience And The Autonomy And Generality Of Principles Of Restraint, Kent Greenawalt
Faculty Scholarship
This Article addresses three perplexing problems about proposed principles of self-restraint for political decision and advocacy within liberal democracies. It considers the nature of convictions that are based on highly personal experiences and asks what their political status should be. It explores the subtle relationship between proposed principles of restraint and overarching religious and other comprehensive views. It argues that a plausible principle of restraint must appeal to people with various religious and other comprehensive views and must be suited to the particular conditions of a given society.