Part 1 The United States Part 2 Identity Politics Chapter 3 The Left's Lost Universalism Chapter 4 From Identity Politics to Social Feminism Chapter 5 Identity Politics: The Third Phase of Liberalism? Part 6 Big Government Chapter 7 The Two World Wars and the Idea of the State Chapter 8 What Kind of Government Do We have to Fear? Chapter 9 Liberalism and Big Government: Tocqueville's Analysis Chapter 10 Big Government and Rights Chapter 11 The Prospects for Democratic Control in an Age of Big Government Chapter 12 From Social to Legal Norms: A Neglected Cause for Big Government Part 13 The World Chapter 14 Notes on Markets, Politics, and Big Government Chapter 15 The Debate on Big Government: The View from Britain and Western Europe Chapter 16 The Leninist Debris; or, Waiting for Peron Chapter 17 Party, Ideology and the Public World in the Former Soviet Space Chapter 18 Ideological Conflicts in Post-Cold War India Chapter 19 Left and Right with Chinese Characteristics: Issues and Alignments in Deng Xiaoping's China Chapter 20 Regime Shift: Japanese Politics in a Changing World Economy

The editors have brought together some highly respected academics and produced a thorough and incisive review of two central philosophical and political problems facing the USA and, to a lesser extent, the wider world today. * Political Studies Review *The book would make an excellent introductory text in classes dealing with major issues in the contemporary world. * Perspectives on Political Science *