Reconciling Two Kingdoms and One Lord: Conservative Presbyterians and Political Liberalism in the United States

2004 ◽  
pp. 185-207
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Two Kingdoms

Voting Behavior on the United States Courts of Appeals Revisited

1975 ◽  
Vol 69 (2) ◽  
pp. 491-506 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheldon Goldman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Voting Behavior ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Stepwise Multiple Regression ◽  
Courts Of Appeals ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Appeals Courts ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

In an earlier study of voting behavior of U.S. appeals courts judges, attitudinal patterns were investigated along with an analysis of the relationship of judges' backgrounds to their decisions. In this revisit, the earlier findings were treated as hypotheses and tested with a new case population covering a subsequent and longer time period. In all, 2,115 cases decided nonunanimously were coded on one or more issues. Most cases could be classified under ten broad issue categories which were then utilized for most of the analyses. Although the research design was similar to that of the earlier study, a wider variety of methods was employed including nonparametric and parametric intercorrelations of voting behavior on the ten issues and stepwise multiple regression and partial correla-tion analyses of seven background variables and their relationships to voting behavior on the issues. The principal findings were similar to those found earlier but it was possible to map voting behavior with some-what more precision and to uncover some unexpected relationships such as those concerning the potency of the age variable particularly for voting on political liberalism issues.

A LIBERAL VISION OF SECURITY – AN ATTEMPT TO SYSTEMATIZE CONCEPTIONS

2018 ◽  
Vol 31 (31) ◽  
pp. 225-249
Author(s):  
Andrzej Urbanek
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
International Security ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Security Environment ◽  
Current Trends ◽  
Liberal Vision

In the article, its author attempted to systematize various concepts and approaches to the issue of security by representatives of political liberalism. Political liberalism now sets the main directions of thinking about security in Europe and the United States. Expanding the subjective scope of security, it undoubtedly contributed to the development of various security concepts in which not only the state but other entities become important actors in the international security environment. The article presents the main assumptions of a liberal vision of security, the approach to security by representatives of traditional liberalism and current trends.

scholarly journals A Third World Perspective

1987 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 9-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali A Mazrui
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Third World ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
The United States ◽  
International Affairs ◽  
Ethical Justification ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Domestic Policies ◽  
World Perspective

At odds in 1987 were the philosophies of a United States grounded in political liberalism and a Soviet Union grounded in economic redistribution. While these principles may have defined these two nations' domestic policies and official international stances, Mazrui argues that the United States did little to propagate liberalism and the Soviet Union did little to encourage economic redistribution. Moreover, his critique seeks to reveal that each superpower's actions ultimately supported the other's philosophy. From this twist of intent and effect, Mazrui turns to the proclivity toward violence that the United States and the Soviet Union displayed in international affairs. Consequently, he calls into question the ethical justification of the means by which the superpowers repeatedly failed to accomplish their intended ends.

LIBERTARIANISM AND AYN RAND'S PHILOSOPHY OF OBJECTIVISM

2019 ◽  
pp. 12-16
Author(s):  
M. I. Korobko
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Ideology ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
Main Idea ◽  
The United States ◽  
The State ◽  
Liberal Theory ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Ayn Rand ◽  
American Writer

The article gives an overview of the ideology of libertarianism. The purpose of the article is analyzing the main ideas of the libertarian move- ment and how they relate to the philosophy of Ayn Rand's objectivism. The essence of this ideological and political direction can not be imagined without the philosophical work of American writer Ayn Rand. The main idea of libertarians is to uphold market freedoms and to object to redistribu- tion through taxation to implement the liberal theory of equality. This movement gets its modern meaning in the late 30's and early 40's of the twen- tieth century in the United States, when enough opponents of the New Deal policy of US President F. Roosevelt appeared. Ayn Rand was one of the first to support libertarians, but later she began to distance herself from them for a variety of reasons, both personal and philosophical. In Ukraine today, this movement has gained popularity due to the ideological direction of the political party "Servant of the People". Today, members of the libertarian political movement are engaged in promoting and spreading the ideas of "objectivism" among the masses in the United States. This movement, which took classical liberal theory as a basis, originated in the American tradition of individualism as a result of dissatisfaction with the transformation of the liberal idea in the practice of political liberalism toward socialism and developed into a sufficiently strong political flow. Ayn Rand's achievements do not lose their relevance in times of global crisis as a means of overcoming the state of despair. It inspires hope that man himself can achieve a happy life unlike most modern ethical theories that cannot refute a person's ultimate dependence as a small screw in the world mechanism. But the ideology of libertarianism, inspired by the American writer, though tempting uninformed people with their possible "independence" of society from the state machine, still remains a rather ambiguous political ideology.

scholarly journals The Egalitarian Fallacy: Are Group Differences Compatible with Political Liberalism?

Philosophia ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 433-444 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Anomaly ◽  
Bo Winegard
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Sex Differences ◽  
Ethnic Groups ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
Ethnically Diverse ◽  
The United States ◽  
Group Differences ◽  
The West ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
Psychological Differences

Abstract Many people greet evidence of biologically based race and sex differences with extreme skepticism, even hostility. We argue that some of the vehemence with which many intellectuals in the West resist claims about group differences is rooted in the tacit assumption that accepting evidence for group differences in socially valued traits would undermine our reasons to treat people with respect. We call this the egalitarian fallacy. We first explain the fallacy and then give evidence that self-described liberals in the United States are especially likely to commit it when they reason about topics like race and sex. We then argue that people should not be as worried as they often are about research that finds psychological differences between men and women, or between people of different racial or ethnic groups. We conclude that if moral equality is believed to rest on biological identity, ethnically diverse societies are in trouble.

scholarly journals Exit from Above

2020 ◽  
pp. 80-109
Author(s):  
Alexander Cooley ◽  
Daniel Nexon
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Infrastructure Investment ◽  
Development Bank ◽  
Shanghai Cooperation Organization ◽  
The West ◽  
Investment Bank ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
New Development

Russia and China are engaged in substantial efforts to contest existing international architecture while building alternative infrastructure. A desire for greater influence and status drives some of these efforts. At the same time, a number of autocratic regimes, including Russia and China, now consider international political liberalism—especially when supported by the United States—as a direct threat to their security. Moscow and Beijing first developed ways of insulating themselves against liberalizing pressure. They next turned to contesting and reversing that international political liberalism. This chapter traces specific ways that Moscow and Beijing have “exited from above,” such as via the New Development Bank, the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. It shows how such efforts have already transformed the ecology of international order, creating a parallel “world without the West” and disrupting the jurisdictions and functions of existing, more liberal, international government organizations.

Afterword

Capitalism ◽  
2018 ◽  
pp. 202-214
Author(s):  
Fred L. Block
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Political Liberalism ◽  
The United States ◽  
Right Wing ◽  
Main Argument ◽  
Economic Liberalism ◽  
The Right ◽  
Similar Episode ◽  
The Way

This afterword develops a brief critique of the way analysts and activists on the left continue to use the concept of capitalism. My main argument is that the term “capitalism” was effectively stolen by the right wing in the 1970s and 1980s and infused with a meaning that emphasizes capitalism’s durability and its unchanging nature. So when those on the left use the term, they inadvertently reinforce the problematic claims of their political opponents. A similar episode of linguistic larceny happened earlier. Between 1890 and 1910, political thinkers in England and the United States effectively stole the term “liberalism” and redefined it from “economic liberalism” to “political liberalism.”...

Correlative microscopy in distrubuted (client/server) computing environments: tools for catalyzing the rapid dissemination of information about the cell biology of the human prostate

1995 ◽  
Vol 53 ◽  
pp. 682-683
Author(s):  
A. Hakam ◽  
J.T. Gau ◽  
M.L. Grove ◽  
B.A. Evans ◽  
M. Shuman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Cell Biology ◽  
Tissue Bank ◽  
The United States ◽  
Prostate Adenocarcinoma ◽  
Correlative Microscopy ◽  
Client Server ◽  
Critical Elements ◽  
Transplant Organ

Prostate adenocarcinoma is the most common malignant tumor of men in the United States and is the third leading cause of death in men. Despite attempts at early detection, there will be 244,000 new cases and 44,000 deaths from the disease in the United States in 1995. Therapeutic progress against this disease is hindered by an incomplete understanding of prostate epithelial cell biology, the availability of human tissues for in vitro experimentation, slow dissemination of information between prostate cancer research teams and the increasing pressure to “ stretch” research dollars at the same time staff reductions are occurring.To meet these challenges, we have used the correlative microscopy (CM) and client/server (C/S) computing to increase productivity while decreasing costs. Critical elements of our program are as follows:1) Establishing the Western Pennsylvania Genitourinary (GU) Tissue Bank which includes >100 prostates from patients with prostate adenocarcinoma as well as >20 normal prostates from transplant organ donors.

Digital image acquisition, processing, and analysis in a polymer microscopy laboratory

1994 ◽  
Vol 52 ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
Vinod K. Berry ◽  
Xiao Zhang
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Image Analysis ◽  
Digital Image ◽  
Image Acquisition ◽  
Image Transmission ◽  
The United States ◽  
Quantitative Image Analysis ◽  
Quantitative Image

In recent years it became apparent that we needed to improve productivity and efficiency in the Microscopy Laboratories in GE Plastics. It was realized that digital image acquisition, archiving, processing, analysis, and transmission over a network would be the best way to achieve this goal. Also, the capabilities of quantitative image analysis, image transmission etc. available with this approach would help us to increase our efficiency. Although the advantages of digital image acquisition, processing, archiving, etc. have been described and are being practiced in many SEM, laboratories, they have not been generally applied in microscopy laboratories (TEM, Optical, SEM and others) and impact on increased productivity has not been yet exploited as well.In order to attain our objective we have acquired a SEMICAPS imaging workstation for each of the GE Plastic sites in the United States. We have integrated the workstation with the microscopes and their peripherals as shown in Figure 1.

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