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Nancy L. Rosenblum

Nancy L. Rosenblum, Senator Joseph Clark Professor of Ethics in Politics and Government at Harvard University, is author of On the Side of Angels: An Appreciation of Parties and Partisanship.

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In Praise of Partisans The charges are familiar. Political parties are too responsive to powerful minorities, insufficiently responsive to powerless minorities, and routinely unresponsive to majorities and ordinary Americans. Martin Gilens confirms...
Nancy L. Rosenblum
In her 1918 book The New State, the social theorist Mary Parker Follett leveled the signature progressive charge against political corruption in the United States. “Individuals have not been to blame,” she...
Nancy L. Rosenblum
When John Roemer proposes to approach public policy from the point of view of our “intuitive idea of equal opportunity” he takes on one of the principal tasks of political theory: to...
Nancy L. Rosenblum
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