Democracy Social Values And Public Policy
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Author | : Milton M. Carrow |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1998-06-18 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : |
Transcending the widespread concerns about deteriorating moral values in American society, this collection focuses on the common values of American society. Through the perspectives of philosophers, historians, political scientists, theologians, anthropologists, economists, and scientists, this book examines American social values and discusses how they are applied in current areas of public interest. American democratic ideals are not simply rooted in the conventional structural and institutional elements of a democracy, such as the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. American democracy, in fact, could not survive without a strong basis of social values that support community, tolerance, and cooperation. Since social values form the common bonds of society, and may not be supported by individual members, they are determined through a complex cultural, legal, and political process, as one of the contributors points out. The contributors to this book were assembled from a variety of disciplines and professions to examine social values and analyze their application in specific areas of current controversy. Through the perspectives of philosophy, anthropology, history, economics, political science, biomedical ethics, and religion, these discussions cover not only disciplinary perspectives but cover topics such as the environment, intergenerational interaction, social welfare policies, gender, and genetic engineering.
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 421 |
Release | : 2013-04-12 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0309264146 |
The United States is among the wealthiest nations in the world, but it is far from the healthiest. Although life expectancy and survival rates in the United States have improved dramatically over the past century, Americans live shorter lives and experience more injuries and illnesses than people in other high-income countries. The U.S. health disadvantage cannot be attributed solely to the adverse health status of racial or ethnic minorities or poor people: even highly advantaged Americans are in worse health than their counterparts in other, "peer" countries. In light of the new and growing evidence about the U.S. health disadvantage, the National Institutes of Health asked the National Research Council (NRC) and the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to convene a panel of experts to study the issue. The Panel on Understanding Cross-National Health Differences Among High-Income Countries examined whether the U.S. health disadvantage exists across the life span, considered potential explanations, and assessed the larger implications of the findings. U.S. Health in International Perspective presents detailed evidence on the issue, explores the possible explanations for the shorter and less healthy lives of Americans than those of people in comparable countries, and recommends actions by both government and nongovernment agencies and organizations to address the U.S. health disadvantage.
Author | : Anthony Michael Bertelli |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1107169712 |
Those who implement policies have the discretion to shape democratic values. Public administration is not policy administered, but democracy administered.
Author | : Amartya Kumar Sen |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 11 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Democracy |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Linda Courtenay Botterill |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : POLITICAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | : 1784710083 |
This book questions the way policy making has been distanced from politics in prevailing theories of the policy process, and highlights the frequently overlooked ubiquity of values and values conflicts in politics and policy. It examines the strengths and weaknesses of current theories, reviews the illusions of rationalism in politics, and explores the way values are implicated throughout the democratic process, from voter choice to policy decisions. It argues that our understanding of public policy is enhanced by recognizing its intrinsically political and value-laden nature.
Author | : Wolfgang Merkel |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 407 |
Release | : 2008-03-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1134071787 |
Globalization, European integration, and social change have devaluated traditional social democratic policy instruments. This book compares and explores how social democratic governments have had to adapt and whether they have successfully managed to uphold old social democratic goals and values in the light of these challenges. This volume examines the policy measures of social democratic parties in government in a comparative framework. The authors focus on traditional social democratic goals and tools, in particular, fiscal, employment, and social policy, in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Sweden, and Denmark. They identify three policy patterns in social democratic governments: traditional, modernized, and liberalized social democracy and provide a comparative account of the explanatory power of the national context for policy adopted by social democratic parties. Finally, the extent to which social democratic parties have been able to use the European Union as a political space for social democratic governance and policy-making is examined. Social Democracy in Power will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, comparative politics, European studies and public policy.
Author | : Anthony M. Bertelli |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 143 |
Release | : 2023-01-31 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 100921764X |
This Element argues for a complementarity principle – governance values should complement political values – as a guide for designing the structures and procedures of public administration. It argues that the value-congruity inherent in the complementarity principle is indispensable to administrative responsibility. It identifies several core democratic values and critically assesses systems of collaborative governance, representative bureaucracy, and participatory policymaking in light of those values. It shows that the complementarity principle, applied to these different designs, facilitates administrative responsibility by making the structures themselves more consistent with democratic principles without compromising their aims. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.
Author | : J. Stewart |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0230240755 |
More and more policy issues involve issues that are explicitly values-based, yet public policy analysis tends to skirt around the question of values. Public Policy Values overcomes this reluctance by showing how public policies enable values-choices to be made, often without seeming to do so.
Author | : Charles F. Andrain |
Publisher | : UPNE |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 9781555536466 |
A rigorous explanation of connections among confidence in government institutions, popular support for democracy, and social justice in societies around the world.
Author | : Muers, Stephen |
Publisher | : Policy Press |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 2020-07-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1447356152 |
Why do so many government policies fail to achieve their objectives? Why are our political leaders not held to account for policy failures? Drawing on his years of experience as a senior government policy maker, as well as on global research, Stephen Muers uses examples ranging from the collapse of the Soviet Union to Cold War Germany, the election of Donald Trump and the Brexit referendum to expose the crucial impact culture and values have on policy success and political accountability. This illuminating study sets out why policy makers need to take culture seriously, how culture and values shape the political system and presents essential, practical recommendations for what governments should do differently.