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34 Pol. Theory 5 (2006)

handle is hein.journals/ptxa34 and id is 1 raw text is: From the Editor Political Theory \o1:0 c - Number 1 Februn 2006 5-8 .. 20Sa:e Publications 10. 1177/00 091705284649 http:// :. epub.com hosted at htll:/,onlin sagepub.com Greetings to all. This past summer in the United States found Political Theory in transit from the University of Virginia, where for six years it has been under the guidance of Stephen K. White's exceedingly able edito- rial hands, to the University of Minnesota, where I hope it will continue to flourish under the editorship that has now passed to me. Fortunate it is that Stephen does not share my size or taste in footwear; otherwise, I would have to venture the impossible and fill his shoes. I begin my stewardship of the journal by thanking him for the time he has devoted to smoothing this transi- tion and providing invaluable counsel and advice. Both Stephen and J. Don- ald Moon, the former consulting editor, have set high standards of scholarly judgment and academic excellence for the journal to strive to uphold. As another of my distinguished predecessors in this office has noted, the burden of being the editor of Political Theory is also a great privilege. In recognition of that fact, I enter these pages with a sincere thanks to my colleagues within the political theory field who have seen fit to entrust and honor me with this position. Anyone who has spent time with Political Theory (whose first issue was published in 1973) will notice how fully it lives up to its billing on the inside journal page. Like the field of inquiry that sets it off, the journal is interna- tional and invites work from scholars of historical and modern political thought, contemporary political theory, and normative and analytical politi- cal philosophy. The journal welcomes every sort of theoretical approach and methodological perspective (these are by now far too numerous to list). If political theory is an intellectual territory bounded by a disciplinary fence, then the territory must be viewed as a wide open space that stretches over diverse terrain, and the fence itself is more akin to a neighbor than a barrier to other disciplines and subject matters. These subject matters are also too many to number, but they range at least from history and philosophy to econ- omy, society, culture, ethics, psychology, discourse, language, literature, and law. I want to reaffirm the commitment to keep this journal as expansive a ter- rain of political theorizing as possible, constituted by a range of different, distinctive, and dissentient scholarly perspectives and points of view. Or, to shift metaphors, we could recall Antonio Gramsci's vindication of party democracy: An orchestra doing a rehearsal, with each instrument playing on its own, creates the impression of a horrible cacophony, writes Gramsci, and yet such activity is the necessary condition for the orchestra to live as a 5

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