Sentences with phrase «century social contract»

The radical right is girding for another assault on Medicare, social security, and the whole 20th century social contract.

Helpfully he had come armed with suggestions for how this might be done: extending the kinds of business models that the ownership commission reported upon the day after the jobs summit; ecosystem policy, rather than industrial policy; a twenty - first century social contract, which would allow individuals to mitigate the risk in their lives; and a state - backed infrastructure bank.

Not exact matches

But in taking the term «civil religion» from Rousseau's Social Contract I was also bringing in a much more general concept, common in America in the eighteenth century but by no means specifically American.

Above all things, the problem with the GOP according to Mann and Ornstein in a recent column in Salon, is that it «aspires to rewrite the social contract and role of government developed and affirmed over a century by both major political parties.»

A republican tradition without either The Federalist Papers or The Social Contract, texts which are clearly central to the two great republican revolutions of the late eighteenth century in France and North America, would be rather poor though.

Much of this topic has been studied for centuries / millenia and some of the fruits of such studies are to be found in various disciplines, including sociology, psychology (cognition), linguistics (e.g. speech act theory) and also law and legal professions dealing with «social contracts» (e.g. diplomatics).