Amitai Etzioni, Author . Princeton Univ. $24.95 (309p) ISBN 978-0-691-07090-2
"Young drug dealers, caught for the first time peddling, should be sent home with their heads shaved and without their pants instead of being jailed," proposed noted sociologist Etzioni (The New Golden Rule) to his more liberal friends, who...
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Amitai Etzioni, Author . Rowman & Littlefield $35 (480p) ISBN 978-0-7425-2158-2
In the 1990s, Western politics began to be influenced by a "Third Way" that sought a middle path between libertarianism and big-government liberalism. No thinker was more integral to this "communitarian" movement than sociologist...
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Amitai Etzioni, Author Wadsworth Publishing Company $57.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-312-08968-9
Neither an overview nor a history of the growing communitarian movement, this collection focuses, as sociologist (and movement leader) Etzioni states, on two core issues: the balance between rights and responsibilities, and the roles of institutions
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Amitai Etzioni, Author Palgrave MacMillan $29.95 (258p) ISBN 978-1-4039-6535-6
Arguing against both what he casts as Francis Fukuyama's liberal triumphalism and Samuel Huntington's""clash of civilizations"" pessimism, communitarian Etzioni sees the world edging toward a""chemical fusion"" of Western individualism and Eastern...
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Amitai Etzioni, Author Routledge $41.95 (208p) ISBN 978-0-415-95047-3
A Carter administration advisor on domestic affairs, Etzioni is director of the Institute of Communitarian Policy Studies at George Washington University. Beginning with poll data and crime statistics, Etzioni takes as a premise that public safety...
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Amitai Etzioni, Author Crown Publishing Group (NY) $22 (323p) ISBN 978-0-517-59277-9
Arguing that Americans must assume responsibilities commensurate with their rights, Etzioni, a founder of the Responsive Community movement, accessibly describes the movement's tenets of societal reconstruction. Communitarians, he avers, are neither
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Amitai Etzioni, Author Basic Books $27.5 (336p) ISBN 978-0-465-05297-4
A leading communitarian thinker, sociologist Etzioni contends Americans have overemphasized individual rights in recent years. In his searching treatise, he seeks to restore an equilibrium between personal liberty and the common good, urging the...
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Amitai Etzioni, Author, Amitai Etzioni, Editor Palgrave MacMillan $79.95 (293p) ISBN 978-0-312-10272-2
Neither an overview nor a history of the growing communitarian movement, this collection focuses, as sociologist (and movement leader) Etzioni states, on two core issues: the balance between rights and responsibilities, and the roles of institutions
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