Paul O. Carrese, Democracy in Moderation: Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and Sustainable Liberalism

Shelley, Trevor

doi:10.1007/s12115-017-0169-y

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“…Jonathan Haidt's The Righteous Mind captures this approach to citizenship preparation for free societies and also the spirit of higher education itself; Haidt (2012), not accidentally, was a cofounder of Heterodox Academy. My own scholarship in political philosophy had explored the intellectual and political virtue of moderation-wariness about taking any idea to an extreme, and the need to balance or reconcile multiple important principles-as a crucial but recently neglected element of Enlightenment thought, and of the founding of American constitutionalism; so there was mutual agreement among ASU leaders and the SCETL founding director about the complex, Socratic approach to liberal education and civic education we should develop (Carrese 2016).…”

Section: Restoring a Higher Civics: Civic Knowledge And Virtue Over C...mentioning

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Civic Thought and Leadership: A Higher Civics to Sustain American Constitutional Democracy

Carrese

2024

Laws

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Multiple civic crises facing American constitutional democracy—deepening political polarization and dysfunction, loss of confidence in major institutions and professions, and collapse of confidence in higher education—can be simultaneously redressed by restoring traditional civic education in universities and colleges. A nascent national reform in public universities, establishing departments of civic thought and leadership, reintroduces a blend of classical liberal arts and American civic education. This restores a core mission of truth-seeking and Socratic debate to universities, while providing the higher civics needed to perpetuate the American legal and constitutional order through non-partisan, non-ideological preparation of thoughtful citizens and leaders with the necessary civic knowledge and civic virtues, including commitment to the rule of law and American constitutionalism.

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Section: Restoring a Higher Civics: Civic Knowledge And Virtue Over C...mentioning

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Civic Thought and Leadership: A Higher Civics to Sustain American Constitutional Democracy

Carrese

2024

Laws

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“…To supplement Koß's mapping, we also include a few US States to capture some (though not all) of the empirically rare scenarios that feature prominently 7 This term is inspired by Almond and Verba's (1963) classic study of political culture in Western democracies, which argues for the special merits of a balanced 'civic culture' that combines 'parochial', 'subject' and 'participant' traits. The idea that balance is desirable, and extremism is dangerous, is also defended by key political thinkers like Montesquieu and Madison (Carrese 2016).…”

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Political Finance and Party Systems in the Normative Theory of Partisanship: Toward a Civic Model

Bonotti,

Nwokora

2023

Brit. J. Polit. Sci.

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Political finance in liberal democracies is often regarded as a source of pathology accompanied by demands for reform. But on what principles and values should political finance reform be grounded? The existing scholarship provides no more than sketchy advice on such matters. To address this gap, this paper presents a normative framework to evaluate political finance rules, which proposes (a) that the design of such rules should take account of the party system in which the financing rules will operate; (b) that both political finance rules and party systems should be evaluated in terms of three normative dimensions of partisanship (collegiality, systemic voice, and systemic accountability); and (c) that political finance reforms ought to counterbalance the pathologies inherent to different party systems. A set of political finance rules that satisfies these three conditions is an instantiation of what we describe as the ‘civic model of political finance’.

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“…We maintain that regardless of which party is in power, it is less disruptive to society if neither one attempts to steer it in a direction too far from what most people can reasonably endure without becoming existentially threatened, morally confused, and cynically disengaged from political life. Through political debate and other institutionally mediated processes, a workable society is one that can integrate competing views to create mutually beneficial solutions that are not at the extremes (Carrese, 2016). Importantly, an alternation in power is not essential for a course of moderation to be followed.…”

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Not by Bread Alone: Immoderate Politics and the Roots of Suffering

Graso

Thau

2023

Psychological Inquiry

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Baumeister and Bushman explicitly limit their theorizing to the US and the present-day context, but the system of division and union functions similarly in all environments that have defined ingroups and outgroups, limited or poorly distributed resources, social discontent, and those who seek power. The basic premise that society produces, and shares resources applies to all past, present, and future collectives, and if this is the assumption from which all predictions follow, they should apply equally to all countries (unless there is a non-articulated boundary condition that can explain why it only applies to the US and the present).

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Paul O. Carrese, Democracy in Moderation: Montesquieu, Tocqueville, and Sustainable Liberalism

Cited by 3 publications

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Civic Thought and Leadership: A Higher Civics to Sustain American Constitutional Democracy

Civic Thought and Leadership: A Higher Civics to Sustain American Constitutional Democracy

Political Finance and Party Systems in the Normative Theory of Partisanship: Toward a Civic Model

Not by Bread Alone: Immoderate Politics and the Roots of Suffering

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