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Teaching for a Good Society

Basic Democratic Theory: Mackie. Political Science 200B: Democracy. Fall 2009: UCSD. Shapiro. PLSC 574a: Topics in Democratic Theory. Fall 2009: Yale. Swaine. Government 60.04: Liberalism and Its Critics. Fall 2009: Dartmouth College. Schwartzberg. Political Science W3120: Problems in Democratic Theory. Spring 2009: Columbia. Honig. Political Science 467: Basic Problems in Democratic Theory: The Political Stakes of the Ethical Turn. Spring 2010, NU. …

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Conferences

A New Constitutionalism Revisited PEGS Roundtable at the 2010 American Political Science Conference The Committee on the Political Economy of the Good Society (PEGS) is based on the realization that many of the major problems facing today’s societies reflect existing political and economic structures and cannot be resolved without significant changes to these underlying institutional …

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Conferences and Books on the Good Society

In addition to publishing a journal, The Good Society, we have published three books, we sponsor panels at academic conferences, and we hold independent conferences. The first conference on Good Society questions was held at Yale University. PEGS co-sponsored a conference in the fall of 1994 on “A New Constitutionalism: Designing Political Institutions for a Good Society.” …

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Books

Citizen Competence and Democratic Institutions (Penn State Press, 1999) The Constitution of Good Societies (Penn State Press, 1995) A New Constitutionalism: Designing Political Institutions for a Good Society (University of Chicago Press, 1993)

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Institutional Sponsors

Chaire Hoover d’Ethique Economique et Sociale Universite Catholique de Louvain Belgium Centre for Constitutional Studies University of Alberta Center for Domestic and Comparative Policy Studies Princeton University Center for Ethics, Rationality, and Society University of Chicago Center for the Study of Politics, Theory, and Policy New School for Social Research Center for the Study of …

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