Political Science

The article explores why over the past thirty years political theorists largely failed to address the emergence of neoliberal capitalism and the debilitating effects of growing inequality on the lives of ordinary people and on the nature of democracy. The article argues that the predominant focus of political theory from the 1980s onwards on the role of group identity in political action and on epistemological questions of the nature of the self, while having the positive effects of helping theorists to interrogate forms of domination that cannot be reduced to class, also led many "radical" political theorists to downplay how the macro structural workings of late capitalism--and the neoliberal erosion of social rights--limits the possibilities for human freedom. The article concludes by arguing that if radical political theory is to inform political practice it must revitalize a theoretical understanding of social solidarity and of democratic equality.

The article examines how thirty years of steady federal and state cuts to funding of higher education has led to the quasi-privatization of public higher education. The articles also explores why tenured faculty, particularly at major public and private research universities, have often failed to engage in collective resistance to the rise of of the neoliberal university and the exploitation of "casualized" academic labor.

The discipline of political science in the United States evolved in tandem with the development of democratic education and the modern university system. Since the early years of the twentieth century, political science has been an academic discipline housed in universities and colleges, and most political scientists earn their living as university or college teachers. And yet as individual academics or as a discipline, we rarely stand back from our institutional environment and ask hard questions about what is happening with higher education and what this means for the practice of political science. Suzanne Mettler does precisely this in Degrees of Inequality: How Higher Education Politics Sabotaged the American Dream. And so we have invited a range of political science scholars, many with extensive experience as university leaders, to comment on her book and its implications for the future of political science.

Democracy Against the Free Market: The Enron Crisis and the Politics of Global Deregulation Joseph M ... en-ergy prices.1 Political corruption is part of the story, but beneath the ideo ... of "corruption and influence buying" lies a starker, systemic reality: The Enron scandal as an ...

... Contact Information. Mohamed Imtiyaz Abdul Razak (Contact Author). Temple University ( email ) Department of Political Science Gladfelter Hall Philadelphia, PA 19122-6089 United States 267 255 1797 (Phone). HOME PAGE: http://myblogimtiyaz.blogspot.com. ...

Page 1. 1 Why the Muslim World is Rebelling? ARM Imtiyaz, Ph.D. Visiting Scholar Department of Political Science Temple University Philadelphia USA. Abstract: Anti-Americanism has been growing in the Muslim world rapidly. This reality leads us to ask ...

... political solution for the ethnic crisis. He, in his interview on September 12, 2007 to Inderjit Badwar, said that he would not seek a political solution beyond the current unitary ... minorities.” 63 Moreover, Alan Keenan, who appeared in the initial hearing of the case for the massacre ...

Page 1. 125 1 Racial Conflict in Sri Lanka: Origin and Development ARM Imtiyaz Department of History Nanjing University mohamedimtiyaz@yahoo.com Page 2. 125 Abstract The ethnic conflict of Sri Lanka is a well-known issue of the international political arena. ...

[Abstract: Discrimination and identity threat are two major clues for the origin of ethno-politico conflict in our time. Different conflicts require different kinds of political solution. Some ethno-political conflicts can be settled through the cultural autonomy, while some strongly ...

Conflict in Sri Lanka between the Tamils and the Sinhalese brought the Eastern Muslims into the crossfire. Muslim elites and politicians generally cooperate with the Sinhalese ruling class. Such cohabitation irritated the Tamils. Since 1985, relations between the Tamils and the Muslims in the Eastern region have become strained, and Muslims claimed they have some problems to be solved. This study attempts to identify some special problems of the Eastern Muslims. A questionnaire on the special problems of the Eastern Muslims was distributed to the Eastern youth, students, unemployed Muslims and farmers. The population of the target group was selected randomly. More than 150 questionnaires were issued with a 75 percent response rate. Interviews were also conducted on the phone with an educated section of the Eastern Muslims. This study also suggests solutions to the protracted ethno-political conflict based on power sharing.

consociationalism, divided societies, ethnic relations, mobilization, modernization, power sharing