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Honneth’s Recognition Paradigm and the Idea of a Critical Theory of World Society
Authors: Ibsen Malte Frøslee 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Chapter 8 observes that the phenomenon of globalization is strikingly absent from Honneth’s work and appears only in his mature theory as a mysterious external force that undercuts the promise of social freedom embodied in the institutional structure of modern Western society from without. The chapter argues that this lack of attention to existing forces of global integration—as well as concerns distinctive to the emerging world society such as climate change and the postcolonial condition—attests to the limits of Honneth’s Hegelian method of normative reconstruction, which presupposes the existence of already-if-imperfectly-realized institutions of social freedom. Such an encompassing ‘culture of freedom’ is conspicuously absent from contemporary world society, where the nature of globalized market forces seems better captured by Habermas’s systems-theoretical construal than by Honneth’s interpretation of the capitalist market as a genuine institution of social freedom. Although Honneth thus offers a sophisticated instantiation of the young Horkheimer’s idea of a critical theory of justice, which—in contrast to Habermas—is able to conceptualize structural autonomy-impairment across all the major social institutions of modern Western society, the chapter argues that his Hegelian reconstructive methodology ultimately precludes the application of his recognition paradigm to world society. Finally, although Honneth has largely remained silent on the relationship between society and nature, the chapter argues that Honneth’s recognition paradigm offers the conceptual resources for reconceiving the communicative conception of freedom so as to make room not only for social and psychological conditions but also natural conditions of individual autonomy.
The Tasks of a Critical Theory of World Society
Authors: Ibsen Malte Frøslee 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
The conclusion restates the central systematic findings and arguments of the book. Moreover, it argues that Forst’s Kantian constructivism and Allen’s self-problematizing critique are both grounded in a dialectic between power and autonomy that runs through the whole Frankfurt School tradition of critical theory, and that a constructive, a reconstructive and a self-problematizing moment must all be understood as integral to the project of a critical theory of world society. Finally, the conclusion argues that the Anthropocene requires an extension of the methodological holism of critical theory to include the relationship between ecosystems and society and, ultimately, the planetary perspective of the relationship between the Earth system and world society.
Exploring the Venerated House
Authors: Dark Ken 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
This chapter discusses the twentieth-century archaeological work at the Sisters of Nazareth convent by Henri Senès, who devoted most of his career as a biblical archaeologist to trying to understand what had been found by the nuns. Senès did valuable work in collating earlier evidence, and conducted his own excavations, but published almost nothing on his decades of investigation at the site. The consequence of this was that Bellarmino Bagatti’s alternative interpretation of the Sisters of Nazareth site as unimportant for the archaeology of Nazareth held sway from the 1930s until the early twenty-first century.
The Daily Preoccupation with Reading Public Opinion
Authors: Walgrave Stefaan , Soontjens Karolin , Sevenans Julie 
Published: January 2023

AbstractGiven the importance politicians attach to reading public opinion, the chapter deals with how politicians go about assessing people’s preferences. How do politicians inform themselves about public opinion? How much time is spent on it? What sources do they employ? Most politicians say they primarily learn about public opinion by talking to ordinary people. Notwithstanding their often-fierce criticism on the news media, consulting the traditional media is their second most preferred source of public opinion information. Interest groups and social media are the respective third and fourth course of politicians’ public opinion diet. Remarkably, Belgian politicians are quite skeptical of social media as a useful source of public opinion information.
Confidence and Doubts about Reading Public Opinion
Authors: Walgrave Stefaan , Soontjens Karolin , Sevenans Julie 
Published: January 2023

AbstractThis chapter deals with how good politicians think they are at estimating public opinion. A majority of politicians are confident about the accuracy of their estimations of public opinion on specific policy proposals. Still, they also display awareness of some pitfalls. In particular, politicians realize remarkably well that the information environment in which they operate is skewed both ideologically—in the sense that they are surrounded by likeminded people more than by dissonant voices—and socially, as there is an underrepresentation of people from, for example, poor or lower-educated societal groups. Additionally, the chapter shows that having a good grasp of public opinion is something many politicians think especially top politicians are good at, it is considered a typical feature of politicians in the executive or of party leaders.
Lost in Representation
Authors: Walgrave Stefaan , Soontjens Karolin , Sevenans Julie 
Published: January 2023

AbstractThe concluding chapter reiterates the main findings of the book: politicians care intensely about public opinion, try hard to form a correct picture of it, and largely follow public opinion when acting. As much as they want to, they often cannot succeed in acting in a responsive way because of mistaken perceptions. The chapter argues that differing degrees of perceptual inaccuracy across issues might explain the selective responsiveness found at the aggregate policy level. A range of possibly negative implications of inaccuracy and bias in politicians’ perceptions are addressed. Inaccurate perceptions may lead to political action that does not match citizen preferences, it may spark ineffective explanations of policies, it could lead to a dissatisfied citizenry, to electoral volatility, and, ultimately, to mutual miscomprehension of politicians and citizens. Erroneous representation, the chapter argues, starts with the original sin of incorrect voting that then, via social projection, reverberates throughout the entire representational system. Finally, the chapter speculates about ways in which the perceptual accuracy of politicians may be enhanced; it argues that politicians’ information environment should be fixed somehow.
Elastic deformation of thick-walled cylinders
Authors: Anand Lallit , Kamrin Ken , Govindjee Sanjay 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
This chapter presents a detailed solution to the technologically important problem of an isotropic elastic thick-walled cylinder subjected to internal and external pressure. The solution is presented in cylindrical coordinates, and thus the chapter also introduces the concepts of the components of strain, the strain-displacement equations, stress, and the equations of equilibrium in cylindrical coordinates. The solution is developed for different common axial boundary conditions: unrestrained, plane strain, and capped.
Sites of Civil Society
Authors: Thorne-Murphy Leslee 
Published: January 2023

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Chapter 2, Sites of Civil Society: The Bazaar Woman in a Mimic Market, argues that the techniques used in staging fancy fairs fostered a distinct bazaar discourse. This discourse featured three consistent components: a radical revision of the traditional Lady Bountiful and allegorical Charity figures, an insistence on upending market norms, and an intermingling of advocacy and parody to create a self-critical mode within earnest philanthropic efforts. These variables were common to bazaar discourse throughout the century, and throughout diverse regions of the United Kingdom and its sphere of cultural influence. They enabled women to use bazaars to make key interventions in political and social affairs in surprisingly brash and transgressive ways.
“In My Broken Heart’s Disdain”
Authors: Thorne-Murphy Leslee 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Chapter 4 explores a poem written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning for publication in the 1848 volume of The Liberty Bell, an annual compiled by Maria Weston Chapman to be sold at the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society’s yearly Christmas bazaar. In keeping with the purpose of the bazaar, Barrett Browning’s poem advocates for the abolitionist cause, but it also problematizes the radical Garrisonian rhetorical technique, moral suasion, that was most often used in The Liberty Bell. Though many scholars have examined the poem as an example of antislavery literature, reading it as a part of the specific rhetoric espoused at the bazaar where it was originally distributed brings an entirely different sense of its relationship to, and resistance to, the larger field of abolitionist literature.
Bazaar Authorship
Authors: Thorne-Murphy Leslee 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
Charlotte Yonge, as a self-professed novelist of the Oxford Movement, used her literary career to represent and advocate for her religious position, and ultimately to inspire what she would consider moral action in her readers. Chapter 5 examines Yonge’s The Daisy Chain, in which a neighborhood bazaar to raise funds for a school models the type of behavior Yonge hoped her readers would emulate, and the type of behavior Yonge herself utilized in her literary career. In essence, Yonge treated the actual literary market as a bazaar, as she offered her products for sale in an effort to raise funds for charitable giving. Twenty years later, as a mature author who had perfected her specific literary brand, Yonge again utilized a fictional charity bazaar to reflect on her role in the literary market. In The Three Brides, a bazaar acts as an agent of contagion, revealing the need for the guiding intervention of an authorial philanthropist like Yonge herself.
Introduction
Authors: Rudolph John L. 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
This chapter describes the importance of using science education to build public trust in science and its institutions as an alternative to the more common general-education goals of personal utility, better thinking, and democratic decision-making. The core issue society needs to grapple with is how to accommodate scientific expertise in a democratic political system and developing public trust is central to this. To accomplish this, the chapter argues for teaching how scientists know what they know (to foster public recognition of the legitimacy of scientific knowledge) and about the scientific enterprise in society (so that the public understands their role in the funding, direction, and oversight of science). This radical approach is necessary to address issues of science denial and disinformation that are rising in society around important science-related social issues and to develop a productive relationship between science and the public.
The Science Education We Have
Authors: Rudolph John L. 
Published: January 2023

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This chapter describes what the general public as well as policymakers and many science educators think of as high-quality science education. It is characterized by a focus on the mastery of disciplinary content knowledge in science subjects such as biology, chemistry, and physics. A sound program of science education, moreover, typically aspires to have students engage in authentic scientific research or practice in a “hands-on” way. Many believe that good schools should focus on providing “rigorous” teaching in the sciences, including courses that prepare students for technical careers and college through expanding access to Advanced Placement coursework. Such rigorous coursework, it’s believed, will also produce many of the other general-education benefits of learning science. All these approaches to science education heavily emphasize student learning of disciplinary content, that is, the facts and theories of each subject.
Democratic Backsliding in Africa?
Authors: Arriola Leonardo R. , Rakner Lise , van de Walle Nicolas 
Published: January 2023

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Contrary to broad claims regarding democratic backsliding across sub-Saharan Africa, our study of democratic processes indicates no such trend. We find instead that the region’s democratic experience over the past two decades largely reflects status quo politics, meaning neither substantial progress nor regression in advancing political and civil liberties since the initial transitions of the early 1990s. This seeming stagnation in African democratization belies ongoing efforts by incumbent leaders to actively undermine key actors (e.g. civil society) or structural conditions (e.g. growing urbanization) that might otherwise lead to greater liberalization. To account for the uneven progress in democratization, despite growing political participation across the region, we argue that Africa’s incumbent leaders have sought to contain democratizing pressures through two interacting processes largely overlooked in the existing literature: legal institutions and international relationships. First, incumbent leaders have relied on the law and courts to curtail the ability of domestic actors to mobilize against them. The strategic use of the law with the aim of holding onto office and strengthening executive powers has undermined other institutions. Second, incumbent leaders have been able to manipulate their international relationships to neutralize the democratizing influence of external actors such as foreign donors and transnational civil society. This includes the strategic use of sovereigntist claims against external intervention in domestic politics.
Political Participation and Regime Responses
Authors: Dupuy Kendra , Arriola Leonardo R. , Rakner Lise 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
The chapter confronts a key paradox of political participation in Africa´s multiparty era: Political mobilization among African citizens has not led to greater democratization. Across countries, citizens have not only continued voting at high rates, but they are also increasingly confronting their governments through street-level protests. The youth, in particular, have become critical actors in making democratic claims on political space. Nevertheless, despite the surge in political participation seen in many African countries, their democratic progress has stalled. We explain this paradox by describing how incumbent leaders have responded to increased political mobilization by strategically clamping down on key arenas of citizen participation in politics, thereby insulating their regimes. We show that incumbents seek to constrain three interrelated arenas where mass participation is most often mobilized: the realm of rights-promoting civil society organizations (the civil society arena), the realm of elections (the contestation arena), and the realm of information technology (the digital arena).
Ghana
Authors: Oduro Franklin , Selvik Lisa-Marie , Dupuy Kendra 
Published: January 2023

AbstractGhana remains one of the few countries on the continent where elites have not deliberately employed legal mechanisms to restrict contestation and participation rights or to lock out the opposition from the electoral playing field. At the same time, the country’s political elites have also actively resisted legal reforms aiming to deepen democratic developments beyond holding elections. Thus, while Ghana has made steady and incremental progress toward democratic consolidation since 1992, the quality of the country’s democracy has stagnated. The chapter argues that Ghana’s political elites have sought to limit further democratization and actively worked to constrain actors promoting enhanced democratization. They have done so primarily through the strategic use of law, including a seeming unwillingness to adopt progressive legal measures that would expand participatory rights. Ghana’s political elites have resisted efforts to restrict executive power, as manifested in continued failures to implement needed constitutional reforms, and they have delayed adopting and implementing key civil liberties legislation to improve minority rights and actively attacked media pluralism and freedoms. Ultimately, this undermines the country’s democracy as elites consolidate power and as popular trust erodes in the key institutions underpinning Ghana’s democracy.
Zimbabwe
Authors: Gloppen Siri , Hinfelaar Marja , Rakner Lise 
Published: January 2023

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Zimbabwe’s contemporary political history as a post-liberation militarized regime displays both a willingness and a capacity for violence and manipulation. The Zimbabwe African National Union–Patriotic Front (ZANU–PF) elite has consistently relied on legal strategies to legitimize its rule since independence. The use of legal strategies (lawfare) puts a veneer of legality on repression, notably for a foreign audience, but its primary purpose is not legitimacy but power maintenance. Yet, at the same time, legal strategies and the courts have provided space for the opposition and civil society to contest executive abuse of power and advance their political agendas. The regime has relied on discourses of sovereignty to justify the closing of political space. Across a wide range of issues, from multiparty elections and land allocations to human rights and LGBT issues, the incumbent regime has relied on sovereigntist arguments. In other instances, the ruling party has sought to accommodate support from international development actors, most notably through advancing gender and gender norms. Mirroring the dual function of the legal strategies, at critical junctures, the international relationships—through funding for democracy support—have provided the opposition and civil society with legitimacy and financial clout to challenge the authoritarian regime.
Against Reading
Authors: Day Frank Morgan 
Published: January 2023

AbstractChapter 2 investigates educational reformers’ suspicion toward reading after the Civil War alongside scenes in literary fiction where characters are explicitly and self-consciously not reading. For Progressive educators, reading was a stubborn pedagogical problem that threatened to cut readers off from the broader world of social experience. The educators’ insistence on this point was itself caught up in the modern school’s own crisis of relevance, its reputation as a purveyor of mere “book-learning.” Though the proliferating scenes of not-reading in postbellum fiction appear to reproduce the educators’ hostility toward reading—casting reading as subordinate to the “real” experience the characters enjoy once they set aside their books—in fact these scenes represent a complex act of literary defiance against an institutional system that increasingly served as a hub of cultural administration. By disavowing reading, writers affirmed the capacity of their fiction to incorporate the reality of non-readerly life into readerly experience.
In Defense of Punctuality
Authors: Day Frank Morgan 
Published: January 2023

AbstractChapter 3 explores the origins of modern academic time after the Civil War and writers’ dissatisfaction with this emergent institutional temporality. Charles Eliot, president of Harvard, developed the “course unit” to integrate schoolwork from kindergarten to college and give the educational system’s middle-class graduates a sense of collective identity based on the shared experience of time. Yet Henry Adams and Gertrude Stein—both of whom witnessed Eliot’s work at Harvard firsthand—blamed the educational system for the feelings of chronological loneliness they suffered under industrial modernity. In response to this systematic failure, Adams and Stein theorized new institutional modes in their writing—the “period” and the “continuous present”—to standardize their readers’ experience of time. By making students read about the lonely, out-of-sync college graduates in Adams’s and Stein’s work, instructors have in turn produced a more standard temporal experience across the school system.
Secret Societies
Authors: Day Frank Morgan 
Published: January 2023

AbstractChapter 5 argues that Progressives sought to understand and shape the modern school’s role in the reproduction of social relations through the secret society. One prominent Progressive genre, early campus fiction, cast its meritocratic vision of the undergraduate experience against the secrecy of secret societies, all while secretly seeking to disqualify certain student populations, based on race, from academic rewards and credentials. Thomas Dixon Jr.’s Reconstruction Trilogy, meanwhile, celebrated the Ku Klux Klan but insisted counterintuitively that secrecy should have no part in modern institutions and that schools should enforce the social order through explicit and visible acts of coercion. Though campus fiction helped higher education establish itself in the popular imagination as a worthwhile endeavor, the enduring presence of Dixon’s work in the educational system suggests that the school hasn’t always successfully indoctrinated students with its meritocratic ideology—that it has had to keep students in line with those un-secretive and punitive practices that, as a “modern” disciplinary institution, it purportedly abandoned long ago.
Really, Really Secret Societies
Authors: Day Frank Morgan 
Published: January 2023

AbstractChapter 6 examines the secret society in the black institutional imaginary after Reconstruction. Secret societies became the subject of much speculation in African American discourse for the same reason they did in the culture at large—because they promised to explain the existence of social inequality and perhaps transform the institutions responsible for reproducing it. Some black writers during this period insisted that secrecy was an unacceptable feature of modern institutions and in doing so demystified the racism embedded in the middle class’s meritocratic worldview. Other black writers embraced secrecy as a revolutionary organizational principle. The uptake of these works in the educational system after the protest movements of the sixties and seventies has enabled the school to more plausibly present itself as a multicultural institution capable of credentialing a diverse population of middle-class students; yet, as we’ll see, the school system has taken up this renovated ideological program just as formal education has itself become dispensable as a mechanism of social control.
Introductory discussion
Authors: Mander W. J. 
Published: January 2023

Abstract
This chapter introduces the basic idea of the volitional theory of causation, the proposal that volition, or will, of broadly the same kind as that which we experience in our own deliberate and voluntary doings, should be taken as the basis for all causality. The chapter proceeds by contextualizing the topic within current scholarly debate, outlining the methodology adopted, setting out the two basic elements of the causal theory of volition (specifically, the claim that, even if external reality seems to be wholly inert, within inner experience we find a sense of causal power, and the further highly expansive proposal that such intuitions give us the model for causation more generally), detailing the main issues which any adequate formulation needs to address, distinguishing the theory from superficially similar rivals and, finally, offering a preliminary taxonomy of different ways of thinking about the notion of will.