Decency And Difference
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Author | : Steven C Roach |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2019-11-22 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0472131621 |
Decency remains one of the most prevalent yet least understood terms in today’s political discourse. In evoking respect, kindness, courage, integrity, reason, and tolerance, it has long expressed an unquestioned duty and belief in promoting and protecting the dignity of all persons. Today this unquestioned belief is in crisis. Tribalism and identity politics have both hindered and threatened its moral stability and efficacy. Still, many continue to undertheorize its political character by isolating it from the effects of identity politics. Decency and Difference argues that decency is a primary source of the political tension that has long shaped the struggles for power, identity, and justice in the global arena. It distinguishes among basic, conservative, and liberal strands of decency to critically examine the many conflicting and competing applications of decency in global politics. Together these different strands reflect a long and uneven evolution from the British and American empires to a global network of justice. This powerful book exposes the gaps of decency and the disparate ways it is practiced, thus addressing the global challenge of configuring a diverse political ethic of decency.
Author | : Charles S. Lauer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 241 |
Release | : 2005-01-01 |
Genre | : Helping behavior |
ISBN | : 9780974386034 |
Chuck Lauer understands that decency is about doing the right thing and being a good person. The publisher of Modern Healthcare for over 25 years, Chuck Lauer has reminded everyone, in his Publisher's Letters section, what it means to be a better person and to lead a fuller life.
Author | : Richard J. Mouw |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2011-08-29 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830869069 |
Few if any people in the evangelical world have conversed as widely and sensitively as Richard Mouw. That's why Mouw can write here so wisely and helpfully about what Christians can appreciate about pluralism, the theological basis for civility, and how we can communicate with people who disagree with us on the issues that matter most.
Author | : Ben Wilson |
Publisher | : Faber & Faber |
Total Pages | : 436 |
Release | : 2014-03-20 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0571317200 |
Brilliant young historian Ben Wilson explores a time when licentious Britain tried to straighten out its moral code, ridding itself of its boisterous pastimes, plain-speaking and drunkenness - raising uncomfortable but fascinating parallels with our own age. Decency and Disorder is about the generation who grew up during the turmoil of the Napoleonic Wars, and some of its most exciting figures.
Author | : Lori M. Poloni-Staudinger |
Publisher | : CQ Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 2019-01-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1544357796 |
Examining democracies from a comparative perspective helps us better understand why politics—or, as Harold Lasswell famously said, "who gets what, when, and how"—differ among democracies. American Difference: A Guide to American Politics in Comparative Perspective takes the reader through different aspects of democracy—political culture, institutions, interest groups, political parties, and elections—and, unlike other works, explores how the United States is both different from and similar to other democracies. The fully updated Second Edition has been expanded to include several new chapters and discussion on civil liberties and civil rights, constitutional arrangements, elections and electoral institutions, and electoral behavior. This edition also includes data around the 2016 general election and 2018 midterm election.
Author | : Eileen Findlay |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780822323969 |
The interrelationship between sexuality and national identity during Puerto Rico's transition from Spanish to U.S. colonialism.
Author | : Colin Shaw |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780198159360 |
An examination of the problem of content regulation in the increasing number of broadcasting services available. It explores the moral basis of regulation, including the protection of children, obscenity and bad language, and considers different constraints, such as the law and cultural customs.
Author | : David Bodanis |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 288 |
Release | : 2021-09-07 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1647003865 |
From a New York Times bestselling author, a fresh and detail-rich argument that the best way to lead is to be fair Can you succeed without being a terrible person? We often think not: recognizing that, as the old saying has it, “nice guys finish last.” But does that mean you have to go to the other extreme and be a bully or Machiavellian to get anything done? In The Art of Fairness, bestselling author David Bodanis uses thrilling case studies to show there's a better path, leading neatly in between. He reveals how it was fairness, applied with skill, that led the Empire State Building to be constructed in barely a year––and how the same techniques brought a quiet English debutante to become an acclaimed jungle guerrilla fighter. In ten vivid profiles featuring pilots, presidents, and even the producer of Game of Thrones, we see that the path to greatness doesn't require crushing displays of power or tyrannical ego. Simple fair decency can prevail. With surprising insights from across history––including the downfall of the very man who popularized the phrase “nice guys finish last”––The Art of Fairness charts a refreshing and sustainable new approach to cultivating integrity and influence.
Author | : Elijah Anderson |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2000-09-17 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0393070387 |
Unsparing and important. . . . An informative, clearheaded and sobering book.—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post (1999 Critic's Choice) Inner-city black America is often stereotyped as a place of random violence, but in fact, violence in the inner city is regulated through an informal but well-known code of the street. This unwritten set of rules—based largely on an individual's ability to command respect—is a powerful and pervasive form of etiquette, governing the way in which people learn to negotiate public spaces. Elijah Anderson's incisive book delineates the code and examines it as a response to the lack of jobs that pay a living wage, to the stigma of race, to rampant drug use, to alienation and lack of hope.
Author | : Zell Miller |
Publisher | : Stroud & Hall Pub |
Total Pages | : 237 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0974537616 |
The Democratic senator discusses issues and values he recommends the Democratic Party must embrace to make the party relevant for the American people.