The universities, the social sciences, and liberal democracy

Interchange ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 23 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 183-223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Edward Shils
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
The Social

Political Science and Democratic Culture: Ernst Fraenkel’s Studies of American Democracy

2003 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 48-73 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hubertus Buchstein
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
United States ◽  
Political Culture ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Scientist ◽  
American Democracy ◽  
Democratic Culture ◽  
The Social ◽  
Cross Fertilization

Reflecting on his academic exile in the United States, the Germanpolitical scientist Franz L. Neumann emphasized the cross-fertilizationof ideas as a result of the confrontation of different scientific andpolitical cultures.1 According to Neumann, the migration of hundredsof European academics to the United States led to a growinginternationalization of the social sciences and a two-way learningprocess. The Europeans became accustomed to the practice of theAmerican liberal democracy and learned to value its political culture;émigré scholars, on the other hand, brought with them a differentacademic Denkstil and contributed to a more critical self-understandingof American democratic theory.

Geopolitan Democracy in the Anthropocene

2017 ◽  
Vol 65 (4) ◽  
pp. 983-999 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robyn Eckersley
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Space Time ◽  
Risk Society ◽  
Social Sciences And Humanities ◽  
Earth Systems ◽  
The Social ◽  
The World ◽  
Scant Attention ◽  
Cosmopolitan Democracy

The proposed new epoch of the Anthropocene, whereby humans have become the dominant geological force shaping Earth systems, has attracted considerable interest in the social sciences and humanities but only scant attention from democratic theorists. This inquiry draws out the democratic problems associated with the two opposing narratives on governing the Anthropocene – Earth systems governance and ecomodernism – and juxtaposes them with a more critical narrative that draws out the democratic potential of the Anthropocene as a new source of critique of liberal democracy and a new resource for democratic renewal. While Ulrich Beck welcomed reflexive cosmopolitan democracy (understood as a civil culture of responsibility across borders) as the appropriate response to the world risk society, this narrative develops an account of hyper-reflexive ‘geopolitan democracy’ based on a more radical extension of democratic horizons of space, time, community and agency as the appropriate response to navigating the Anthropocene.

scholarly journals Capitalism in Australia: New histories for a reimagined future

Thesis Eleven ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 160 (1) ◽  
pp. 95-120
Author(s):  
Ben Huf ◽  
Yves Rees ◽  
Michael Beggs ◽  
Nicholas Brown ◽  
Frances Flanagan ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Liberal Democracy ◽  
Roundtable Discussion ◽  
Free Markets ◽  
Historical Scholarship ◽  
The Social

Capitalism is back. Three decades ago, when all alternatives to liberal democracy and free markets appeared discredited, talk of capitalism seemed passé. Now, after a decade of political and economic turmoil, capitalism and its temporal critique of progress and decline again seems an indispensable category to understanding a world in flux. Among the social sciences, historians have led both the embrace and critique of this ‘re-emergent’ concept. This roundtable discussion between leading and emerging Australian scholars working across histories of economy, work, policy, geography and political economy, extends this agenda. Representing the outcome of a workshop convened at La Trobe University in November 2018 and responding to questions posed by conveners Huf and Rees, five participants debate the nature, utility and future of the new constellation of ‘economic’ historical scholarship. While conducted well before the outbreak of COVID-19, the ensuring discussion nevertheless speaks saliently to the crises of our times.

What Can We Learn From Factorial Surveys About Human Behavior?

Methodology ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Knut Petzold ◽  
Tobias Wolbring
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Behavioral Intentions ◽  
Actual Behavior ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Factorial Survey ◽  
Survey Experiment ◽  
Intended Behavior ◽  
The Social ◽  
Survey Experiments ◽  
High Level

Abstract. Factorial survey experiments are increasingly used in the social sciences to investigate behavioral intentions. The measurement of self-reported behavioral intentions with factorial survey experiments frequently assumes that the determinants of intended behavior affect actual behavior in a similar way. We critically investigate this fundamental assumption using the misdirected email technique. Student participants of a survey were randomly assigned to a field experiment or a survey experiment. The email informs the recipient about the reception of a scholarship with varying stakes (full-time vs. book) and recipient’s names (German vs. Arabic). In the survey experiment, respondents saw an image of the same email. This validation design ensured a high level of correspondence between units, settings, and treatments across both studies. Results reveal that while the frequencies of self-reported intentions and actual behavior deviate, treatments show similar relative effects. Hence, although further research on this topic is needed, this study suggests that determinants of behavior might be inferred from behavioral intentions measured with survey experiments.

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