Seligman considers whether, in a time of atomized anomie, new social movements such as feminism or gay rights might provide an incipient civil society for their adherents. (firstthings.com)
In the third, Republican Politics, contributors including Quentin Skinner, Alex Gourevitch and Karma Nabulsi discuss the politics of republicanism, from challenging the surveillance state to democratising the workplace and harnessing the demands of new social movements for freedom from domination by the one per cent. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)
There are those who say we live in a non-ideological world, and point in particular at amorphous new social movements without party or leader. (blog.politics.ox.ac.uk)