Morality and Public Policy

Morality and Public Policy
Author: Steven M. Cahn
Publisher: Pearson
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2003
Genre: Education
ISBN:

This anthology explores a variety of positions on recent, controversial, social problems--all of which involve government policy. The wide-range of contemporary issues includes allowing/encouraging immigration, use of school vouchers, government control over drugs and guns, same-sex marriages, government support of the arts, affirmative action, the death penalty, and the legitimacy of legally restricting the sale of pornography. For anyone seeking to clarify their understanding and thinking about rights and wrongs in public affairs.

Morality and Public Policy

Morality and Public Policy
Author: Clem Henricson
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2016-02-24
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1447323858

With an increasingly bitter secular religious divide, there is a messy, defective relationship between the state and morality in the UK. In response, Morality and Public Policy puts forward proposals to enhance the capacity of public policy to respond more effectively to morality and associated shifts in social mores in different cultural settings. Spanning religion, moral philosophy and scientific understanding of the human condition, this unique book draws together and adds to the latest thinking on morality, its causes, mutations, tensions and common features. It challenges misplaced concepts of ‘moral progress’ and the supremacy of empathy, and puts forward the management of the full span of human impulses - some complementary, some conflicting - as the function of morality with major implications for the interface between morality and public policy.

Morality, Leadership, and Public Policy

Morality, Leadership, and Public Policy
Author: Eric Thomas Weber
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2011-05-05
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1441174184

In Morality, Leadership, and Public Policy, Eric Weber argues for an experimentalist approach to moral theory in addressing practical problems in public policy. The experimentalist approach begins moral inquiry by examining public problems and then makes use of the tools of philosophy and intelligent inquiry to alleviate them. Part I surveys the uses of practical philosophy and answers criticisms - including religious challenges - of the approach, presenting a number of areas in which philosophers' intellectual efforts can prove valuable for resolving public conflicts. Part II presents a new approach to experimentalism in moral theory, based on the insights of John Dewey's pragmatism. Focusing on the elements of good public inquiry and the experimentalist attitude, Weber discusses ways of thinking about the effective construction and reconstruction of particular problems, including practical problems of public policy prioritization. Finally, in Part III the book examines real-world examples in which the experimentalist approach to ethics proves useful, including instances of "bandwidth theft" and the controversies surrounding activist judges in the US Supreme Court.

Morality Politics in Western Europe

Morality Politics in Western Europe
Author: Isabelle Engeli
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2012-06-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137016698

Why do some countries have 'Culture Wars' over morality issues such as abortion and same-sex marriage while other countries hardly experience any conflict? This book argues that morality issues only generate major conflicts in political systems with a significant conflict between religious and secular parties.

Do Morals Matter?

Do Morals Matter?
Author: Joseph S. Nye
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2020
Genre: POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN: 0190935960

What is the role of ethics in American foreign policy? The Trump Administration has elevated this from a theoretical question to front-page news. Should ethics even play a role, or should we only focus on defending our material interests? In Do Morals Matter? Joseph S. Nye provides a concise yet penetrating analysis of how modern American presidents have-and have not-incorporated ethics into their foreign policy. Nye examines each presidency during theAmerican era post-1945 and scores them on the success they achieved in implementing an ethical foreign policy. Alongside this, he evaluates their leadership qualities, explaining which approaches work and which ones do not.

Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy

Economic Analysis, Moral Philosophy, and Public Policy
Author: Daniel Hausman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2017
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1107158311

This book shows how careful attention to moral reasoning can enrich economic understanding and clarify the importance and the limits of an economic analysis of policy problems.

Public Policy

Public Policy
Author: Jonathan Boston
Publisher: ANU E Press
Total Pages: 327
Release: 2010-10-01
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1921666757

Ethics is a vigorously contested field. There are many competing moral frameworks, and different views about how normative considerations should inform the art and craft of governmental policy making. What is not in dispute, however, is that ethics matters. The ethical framework adopted by policy analysts and decision makers not only shapes how policy problems are defined, framed and analysed, but also influences which ethical principles and values are taken into account and their weighting. As a result, ethics can have a profound impact, both on the character of the policy process and the choices made by decision makers. PUBLIC POLICY: WHY ETHICS MATTERS brings together original contributions from leading scholars and practitioners with expertise in various academic disciplines, including economics, philosophy, physics, political science, public policy and theology. The volume addresses three main issues: fist, the ethical considerations that should inform the conduct of public officials and the task of policy analysis; second, the ethics of climate change; and third, ethics and economic policy. While the contributors have varying views on these important issues, they share a common conviction that the ethical dimensions of public policy need to be better understood and given proper attention in the policy-making process.

Public Philosophy

Public Philosophy
Author: Michael J. Sandel
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 314
Release: 2005
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780674019287

In this book, Michael Sandel takes up some of the hotly contested moral and political issues of our time, including affirmative action, assisted suicide, abortion, gay rights, stem cell research, the meaning of toleration and civility, the gap between rich and poor, the role of markets, and the place of religion in public life. He argues that the most prominent ideals in our political life--individual rights and freedom of choice--do not by themselves provide an adequate ethic for a democratic society. Sandel calls for a politics that gives greater emphasis to citizenship, community, and civic virtue, and that grapples more directly with questions of the good life. Liberals often worry that inviting moral and religious argument into the public sphere runs the risk of intolerance and coercion. These essays respond to that concern by showing that substantive moral discourse is not at odds with progressive public purposes, and that a pluralist society need not shrink from engaging the moral and religious convictions that its citizens bring to public life.

Public and Private Morality

Public and Private Morality
Author: Stuart Hampshire
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 156
Release: 1978-10-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780521293525

Collection of essays by well-known British and American philosophers on the moral principles by which public policies and political decisions should be judged: does effective political action necessarily involve and justify actions which the individual would regard as unacceptable in "private" morality?