| FT-53451-05 | Research Programs: Summer Stipends | Thomas Francis Powers | Anti-discrimination Theory and the Reshaping of American Democracy | 6/1/2005 - 8/31/2005 | $5,000.00 | Thomas | Francis | Powers | | | | University of Minnesota, Duluth | Duluth | MN | 55812-2403 | USA | 2005 | Political Science, General | Summer Stipends | Research Programs | 5000 | 0 | 5000 | 0 |
My objective is to provide a general interpretive framework for understanding the new commitment in American life to the principles and ideals connected with the fight against discrimination. I focus on the relationship between a constellation of new concerns arising out of recent civil rights reforms (which I term anti-discrimination theory) and America’s traditional “liberal” theoretical framework. I trace the relationship between anti-discrimination theory and traditional liberalism in three areas – in American constitutional theory, in a new language of morality, and in a new understanding of pluralist theory. This project is intended for publication as a book. |