Joel Rogers

Solidarity, Democracy, Association

The egalitarian democratic political project aims at “a reconciliation of liberty with equality” (Rawls 1971: 204). Committed to a framework of universal civil and political liberties, it seeks to advance an ideal of substantive political equality, ensuring that citizens’ political influence is not determined by their economic position, a requirement of real equality of opportunity, condemning inequalities in advantage tracing to differences in social background,1 and a conception of the general welfare giving priority to the least well-off.2

A Way Out: America's Ghettos and the Legacy of Racism

Preface BY JOSHUA COHEN, JEFFERSON DECKER, AND JOEL ROGERS ix PART I: What Should Be Done for Those Who Have Been Left Behind? by OWEN FISS 3 PART II: Down by Law BY RICHARD FORD 47 Communities, Capital, and Conflicts BY TRACEY L. MEARES 51 Better Neighborhoods? BY ROBERT COLES 57 Beyond Moralizing BY J. PHILLIP THOMPSON 60 Creating Options BY JENNIFER HOCHSCHILD 68 Exit and Redevelopment BY GARY ORFIELD 74 Relocation Works BY JAMES E.ROSENBAUM 79 Unlikely Times BY ALEXANDER POLIKOFF 85 Against Social Engineering BY JIM SLEEPER 92 If Baldwin Could Speak BY STEVEN GREGORY 102 PART III: A Task Unfinished BY OWEN FISS 113 Notes on the Contributors 127 Index 129

Sectoral Strategies of Labour Market Reform

For good or ill, the sheer economic and political weight of the U.S. make its solutions to employment and training problems important to European policy-makers. Before considering some of the ways it might be changing, we characterise the ‘American model’ of labour market regulation, and ask how it is performing.

How're We Doing?: Reflections on Moral Progress in America

The Good Society, Volume 17, No. 1, 2008 · Copyright

What workers want

Excerpt] This updated edition of What Workers Want keeps the core text and chapter structure of the first edition (Chapters 1-7 in the current book), while eliminating its appendices. The appendices reported the methodology, telephone questionnaires, and written materials used in the two waves of the Worker Representation and Participation Survey (WRPS), all of which is no available online at www.nber.org/~freeman/wrps.html. That site also offers an integrated dataset of all findings, ready for download by interested researchers, and links to other national surveys, modeled on the WRPS, conducted since. New to the updated edition are a new introduction and conclusion. The Introduction examines how our original findings stand up in light of the survey research that others have done since the WRPS. The Conclusion offers suggestions on how to reform our labor relations system so that it delivers to workers what they want in the form of workplace representation and participation.

Liberalism and the Economic Order: Associations and Democracy

Since the publication of John Rawlss A Theory of Justice , normative democratic theory has focused principally on three tasks: refining principles of justice, clarifying the nature of political justification, and exploring the public policies required to ensure a just distribution of education, health care, and other basic resources. Much less attention has been devoted to examining the political institutions and social arrangements that might plausibly implement reasonable political principles. Moreover, the amount of attention paid to issues of organizational and institutional implementation has varied sharply across the different species of normative theory. Neoliberal theorists, concerned chiefly with protecting liberty by taming power, and essentially hostile to the affirmative state, have been far more sensitive to such issues than egalitarian-democratic theorists, who simultaneously embrace classically liberal concerns with choice, egalitarian concerns with the distribution of resources, and a republican emphasis on the values of citizen participation and public debate (we sketch such a conception below in Section I). Neglect of how such values might be implemented has deepened the vulnerability of egalitarian-democratic views to the charge of being unrealistic: “good in theory but not so good in practice.”

The Worst and the Dumbest: Perspectives on the Reagan Era

Review of Reagan and the World: Imperial Policy in the New Cold War by Jeff McMahan; The Triumph of Politics: Why the Reagan Revolution Failed by David A. Stockman.This article can also be found at the Monthly Review website, where most recent articles are published in full.Click here to purchase a PDF version of this article at the Monthly Review website.