PETER LEVINE
http://www.puaf.umd.edu/faculty/people/levinem.html

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Books written or edited:

The New Progressive Era; Toward a Fair and Deliberative Democracy, by Peter Levine (Rowman & Littlefield, 2000). Cloth $65.00; paper $19.95.

Living Without Philosophy: On Narrative, Rhetoric, and Morality, by Peter Levine, (Albany: SUNY Press, 1998). Cloth, $68.50; paper, $22.95.

Something to Hide, a novel, by Peter Levine (New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1996).

Nietzsche and the Modern Crisis of the Humanities, by Peter Levine (Albany: SUNY Press, 1995). Cloth, $57.50; paper, $18.95.

Articles and essays:

(co-written with Mark Lopez) "Youth Voter Turnout has Declined, by Any Measure," CIRCLE publication, June 2002.

"Keats Against Dante: The Sonnet on Francesca da Rimini," Keats-Shelley Journal, vol. LI (2002), pp. 76-93.

“Can the Internet Rescue Democracy? Toward an On-line Commons” in Ronald Hayduk and and Kevin Mattson (eds.), Democracy’s Moment: Reforming the American: Political System for the 21st Century (Lanham, MD, Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), pp. 121-137.

"Campaign Web Pages and the Public Interest," in David M. Anderson and Michael Cornfield, eds., The Civic Web: Online Politics and Democratic Values (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002).

Five entries in the Norton Dictionary of Modern Thought, edited by Alan Bullock and Stephen Trombley ("Will to Power," "Eternal Return," "Übermensch," "Last Man," and "Master Morality/Slave Morality")

"Civic Renewal and the Commons of Cyberspace," The National Civic Review, vol. 90, no. 3 (Fall 2001), pp. 205-211.

"Public Intellectuals and the Influence of Economics," The Higher Education Exchange, 2001

"The Legitimacy of Labor Unions," The Hofstra Labor and Employment Law Journal, vol. 18, no. 2 (Spring, 2001), pp. 529-573.

"The Libertarian Critique of Labor Unions," Philosophy & Public Policy Quarterly, Volume 21, Number 4 (Fall 2001).

"The Internet and Civil Society," Report from the Institute for Philosophy & Public Policy, vol. 20, no. 4, Fall 2000. Also available in a longer version in Ethics and the Internet, edited by Anton Vedder (Oxford: Intersentia, 2001), pp. 177-193

"Michael Edwards, Future Positive: International Co-operation in the 21st Century," book review in the IDEA Newsletter, May 2000, available at: www.carleton.ca/idea/newsletter/reviews_032000_4.html

"Lessons from the Brooklyn Museum Controversy," http://www.puaf.umd.edu/ippp/reports/vol20sum00/lessons.html Report from the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, vol. 20, no. 2/3, Summer 2000

"Hopeful Signs in America’s Civic Health," press release and talk given at the Brookings Institution, Washington, June 18, 1999

"Getting Practical About Deliberative Democracy," The Report from the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, Fall 1999

"Why Dante Damned Francesca da Rimini," Philosophy & Literature, vol. 23 (October, 1999), pp. 334-350

"The Index of National Civic Health (INCH)," a publication of the National Commission on Civic Renewal (1998). INCH used 22 variables to measure a steep decline in civic health since 1974; the results were widely reported in newspapers.

"Nietzsche and the Greeks," The International Journal of the Classical Tradition, Spring 1998, pp. 527-529.

"America’s Civic Condition: A Glance at the Evidence," (with William A. Galston), The Brookings Review, Vol. 15, No. 4 (Fall 1997), pp. 23-26. This article is reprinted in E.J. Dionne, Jr., editor, Community Works: The Revival of Civil Society in America (Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 1998), pp. 30-36.

"Deliberation and Technical Reasoning," in Standing with the Public: The Humanities and Democratic Practice, Noelle McAfee and Jim Veninga, eds. (Dayton, 1997).

"Expert Analysis vs. Public Opinion: The Case of Campaign Finance Reform," The Report from the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, Vol. 17 No. 3 (Summer, 1997). A version of the same article was published as "Cleaning Up Campaigns," The Birmingham News, "Review & Comment" section, Sunday, August 17, 1997, p. C 1

"Consultants and American Political Culture," Report from the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, Vol. 14 No. 3/4 (Summer/Fall 1994). This article was abridged in The Congressional Quarterly Researcher (1996).

"Lolita and Aristotle’s Ethics," Philosophy and Literature, vol 19, no. 1 (April 1995):32-47.

"In This Election, G.O.P. Won Because More Rich People Voted" (letter), The New York Times, November 25, 1994.

"Public Journalism and Deliberation," Report from the Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy, Vol. 16 No. 1 (Winter, 1994).