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GUEST BLOGGER Heidi M. Ravven
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The more liberal the model of moral education in a given school, the more likely it is to emphasize social service rather than the acquisition of individual character virtues. Nevertheless, the theoretical underpinnings of that aspect of character education are largely absent or u...
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GUEST BLOGGER Heidi M. Ravven
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Beginning in the 1960s, the American quest for moral education embraced three new "liberal" approaches. "Values clarification" taught children how to judge diverse situations. "Cognitive development" taught children how to think about values. "Feminist caring" considered valu...
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GUEST BLOGGER Heidi M. Ravven
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In 1600s and 1700s America, the family was the main transmitter of moral values, embodied in religion. In particular, Puritans believed that religion expressed God's will, which individuals should will themselves to obey. In the 1800s, economic development increased personal fr...
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GUEST BLOGGER Heidi M. Ravven
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In the late 1900s, conservatives announced that America was in moral decline and blamed morally permissive liberal education. America's schools focused on modern technical skills and neglected traditional religious values. The conservatives' remedy was "character education"...
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GUEST BLOGGER Heidi M. Ravven
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To understand how American moral education is being conducted in the early 2000s, author Ravven visited various American institutions. At a public elementary school, she listened to a principal and a parent express their enthusiasm for educating children about interpersonal "...
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GUEST BLOGGER Craig K. Comstock
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The effects of global warming will be as bad as the effects of a global war. Nevertheless, much science remains too quiet and most politics too calm. Prudent governance remains paralyzed.
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GUEST BLOGGER Steven M. Teles
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By now, the SIZE of American government is roughly fixed. Over the next few decades, Americans will debate its counter-productive COMPLEXITY. America has chosen to govern itself through more indirect and incoherent policy mechanisms than can be found in any comparable country. Tod...
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GUEST BLOGGER Steven M. Teles
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By now, the SIZE of American government is roughly fixed. Over the next few decades, Americans will debate its counter-productive COMPLEXITY. America has chosen to govern itself through more indirect and incoherent policy mechanisms than can be found in any comparable country. Tod...
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GUEST BLOGGER Steven M. Teles
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By now, the SIZE of American government is roughly fixed. Over the next few decades, Americans will debate its COMPLEXITY. America has chosen to govern itself through more indirect and incoherent policy mechanisms than can be found in any comparable country. Today much of American...
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GUEST BLOGGER Craig K. Comstock
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It took military near-catastrophes (still near-secret) to scare Soviet and American elites into ending the Cold War. Limiting climate change will require equally big shocks and big changes.
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GUEST BLOGGER Robert J. Gordon
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In August 2012 the noted American economist Robert J. Gordon raised the deliberately provocative question “Is U.S. growth over?” After much debate among economists, Gordon has updated his argument in a recent paper, which this Series provides.
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GUEST BLOGGER Robert J. Gordon
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In August 2012 the noted American economist Robert J. Gordon raised the deliberately provocative question “Is U.S. growth over?” After much debate among economists, Gordon has updated his argument in a recent paper, which this Series provides.
The first P...
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GUEST BLOGGER Robert J. Gordon
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In August 2012 the noted American economist Robert J. Gordon raised the deliberately provocative question “Is U.S. growth over?” After much debate among economists, Gordon has updated his argument in a recent paper, which this Series provides.
This Pos...
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GUEST BLOGGER Heidi M. Ravven
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An important new book, The self beyond itself, critiques Western ethics. American Jewish philosopher Heidi Ravven argues that medieval Christianity “went wrong” by adopting the punitive notion of moral Behavior as DECISIONS based on the “free will” of autonomous individuals. Ravven r...
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GUEST BLOGGER Craig K. Comstock
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“It's much easier to kill people with missiles in a foreign country than to undertake any transition in the U.S. economy from fossil fuels to sustainable energy.”
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AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONALISM: LONG-RUN DEVELOPMENT
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AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONALISM: MID-RUN REGIMES
From New Deal toward Market State?
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AMERICAN CONSTITUTIONALISM: SHORT-RUN SITUATION
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本文将介绍关于美国宪政主义（American constitutionalism）的新一系列博文：“美国宪政”是怎么回事，有什么功能，如何运行，以及运行得怎么样。第一篇介绍了一些一般性论题，后面的文章将从不同的分析标准加以详述：短期的最高法院裁决，中期的立宪政体（constitutional regime）和长期的宪法及政治发展。
可以说，宪政是美国政治中最难理解的一个方面。系列博文所突出的，既有理解的困难，又有制度上的问题。面向公众...
韦爱德
Edwin A. Winckler (韦爱德) is an American political scientist (Harvard BA, MA, and PhD) who has taught mostly in the sociology departments at Columbia and Harvard. He has been researching China for a half century, publishing books about Taiwan’s political economy (Sharpe, 1988), China’s post-Mao reforms (Rienner, 1999), and China’s population policy (Stanford, 2005, with Susan Greenhalgh). Recently he has begun also explaining American politics to Chinese. So the purpose of this Blog is to call attention to the best American media commentary on current American politics and to relate that to the best recent American academic scholarship on American politics. Winckler’s long-term institutional base remains the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University in New York City. However he and his research have now retreated to picturesque rural Central New York.
