Books written by William E. Scheuerman
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United University Professions: Pioneering in Higher Education Unionism
Tells the story of the nation’s largest higher education union from its earliest years to its role today as a powerful organization promoting the interests of faculty, staff, and the entire SUNY community.
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A New American Labor Movement: The Decline of Collective Bargaining and the Rise of Direct Action
Finding engineers who would want to take on this task at a workers co-op, Cheng concludes, would be very difficult.124 Cheng's analysis, already several years old, does not mean that the formation of a drivers' cooperative is ...
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Carl Schmitt: The End of Law
See Peter Bachrach , The Theory of Democratic Elitism : A Critique ( Boston : Little , Brown , 1967 ) ; David M. Ricci , " Democracy Attenuated : Schumpeter , the Process Theory , and American Democratic Thought , " Journal of Politics ...
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Between the Norm and the Exception: The Frankfurt School and the Rule of Law
John Locke , Two Treatises on Government , ed . Peter Laslett ( Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 1967 ) , esp . chap . 11 , para . 137. For a discussion providing helpful background about the immediate historical and ...
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The Realist Case for Global Reform
In recent years, some prominent journalists – including New Republic editor Peter Beinart – have also turned to Niebuhr for inspiration. A devastating critique of their efforts to retool Niebuhr for the battle against terrorism is ...
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Acceleration of Society
Acceleration of Society
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Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law
“Labour in the Global Economy” in William Bratton, Joseph McCahery, and Sol Picciotto (eds) International Regulatory ... in J. Roland Pennock and John W. Chapman (eds) Liberal Democracy (New York: New York University Press, 1983).
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The End of Law: Carl Schmitt in the Twenty-First Century
Especially interesting on this score is a 1942 book by G. A. Walz, published by the Nazis themselves: much of this book borrows directly from Schmitt's writings! G. A. Walz, Völkerrechtsordnung und Nationalsozialismus (Munich: ...
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Civil Disobedience
What is civil disobedience? Although Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King helped to bring the idea to prominence, even today it remains unclear how we should best understand civil disobedience.
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Liberal Democracy and the Social Acceleration of Time
William N. Eskridge , “ Dynamic Statutory Interpretation , ” University of Pennsylvania Law Review 135 ( 1987 ) : 1479 . 92. This is a central concern of Schmitt's Die Lage der europäischen Rechtswissenschaft . 93.
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Private Interest, Public Spending: Balanced-Budget Conservatism and the Fiscal Crisis
William L. Riordon , ed . , Plunkitt of Tammany Hall ( New York : E.P. Dutton , 1963 ) , p . 19 . 38. Ibid . , p . 37 . 39. Ibid . , pp . 37,3 . 40. No one has written more brilliantly or caustically about the foggy ethics shared by the ...
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Frankfurt School Perspectives on Globalization, Democracy, and the Law
Jackson, John H. The World Trading System: Law and Policy of International Economic Relations (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1999). James, Harold. International Monetary Cooperation Since Bretton Woods (Washington, D.C.: International ...
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Private Interest, Public Spending: Balanced-budget Conservatism and the Fiscal Crisis
Clinton Rossiter ( New York : Mentor Books , New American Library , 1961 ) , p . ... In the words of John Dillon , who wrote perhaps the most influential legal treatise on urban political power in U.S. history , state power “ is supreme ...
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Between the Norm and the Exception: The Frankfurt School and the Rule of Law
Winner, 1996 Elaine and David Spitz Book Prize for the best book on liberal and democratic theory, Conference for the Study of Political Thought.
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Liberal Democracy and the Social Acceleration of Time
... bodies ... because they incorporated into law the law those customs that prevailed in society'' (William D. Popkin, Materials on Legislation: Political Language and the Political Process [New York: Foundation Press, 2001], 401).
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Morgenthau
A See the now classic discussion by James N. Rosenau, “Governance, Order, and Change in World Politics,” in James N. Rosenau and Ernst-Otto Cziempiel (eds.), Governance without Government: Order and Change in World Politics (Cambridge: ...
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The Realist Case for Global Reform
E For the crucial theoretical statement on “governance without government” see Rosenau and Czempiel (1992). E For an important exception to the anti-statism of contemporary cosmopolitanism, see the excellent critique by Marchetti (2008) ...
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United University Professions: Pioneering in Higher Education Unionism
Tells the story of the nation’s largest higher education union from its earliest years to its role today as a powerful organization promoting the interests of faculty, staff, and the entire SUNY community.
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The Cambridge Companion to Civil Disobedience
The theory and practice of civil disobedience has once again taken on import, given recent events.
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Morgenthau
The ideas of Hans Morgenthau dominated the study of international politics in the United States for many decades. He was the leading representative of Realist international relations theory in the...