By Dennis F. Thompson
ISBN-10: 0511231768
ISBN-13: 9780511231766
ISBN-10: 0521838304
ISBN-13: 9780521838306
During this vital number of essays Dennis Thompson argues for an improved notion of accountability in public lifestyles than prevails in modern democracies. He means that we should always cease considering rather a lot approximately public ethics when it comes to person vices (such as selfishness or sexual misconduct) and begin pondering it extra when it comes to institutional vices (such as abuse of energy and shortage of accountability). Combining idea and perform with many concrete examples and suggestions for reform those essays will be utilized in classes in utilized ethics or political conception and should be learn via pros and graduate scholars in faculties of political technological know-how, public coverage, legislations, public well-being, journalism and company.
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L. 1956–57. ” Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 57: 1–30. Bok, Sissela. 1978. Lying. New York: Pantheon. Congressional Quarterly. 1975. Watergate. Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly. Donagan, Alan. 1977. The Theory of Morality. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Donovan, Robert J. 1977. Conflict and Crisis. New York: Norton. Edelman, Murray. 1964. The Symbolic Uses of Politics. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Feinberg, Joel. 1970. Doing and Deserving. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Nor for that matter can we always identify officials who deserve credit for the good that governments occasionally accomplish. But the pursuit of personal responsibility provides the best foundation for understanding the role that human agency plays in good and bad government, and therefore establishes some basis for initiating whatever political change may be necessary. xml 30 CY424B/Thompson 0 521 83830 4 June 25, 2004 7:12 I. Demands of Institutional Politics Notes I am grateful to Joel Feinberg, Amy Gutmann, Geoffrey Hawthorn, Albert Hirschman, Marion Smiley, and Michael Walzer for advice on earlier versions of this chapter.
I am also indebted to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, which provided a congenial environment in which to work on this project. 1. For example, Anderson 1979; Bok 1978; Hampshire 1978; Rohr 1978; and Walzer 1973. For a survey of the growing literature in this field, see Fleishman and Payne 1980. 2. Austin’s classic essay (1956–57) is a valuable source on this topic, but more directly relevant are Hart and Honor´e 1959; and Feinberg 1970. 3. Generally on the concept of political responsibility, see Pennock 1979, 260– 308.
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