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Author |
: Mark A. Abramson |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 264 |
Release |
: 2018-09-03 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781538121719 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1538121719 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (19 Downloads) |
Synopsis Government for the Future by : Mark A. Abramson
In recognition of its 20th anniversary, The IBM Center for the Business of Government offers a retrospective of the most significant changes in government management during that period and looks forward over the next 20 years to offer alternative scenarios as to what government management might look like by the year 2040. Part I will discuss significant management improvements in the federal government over the past 20 years, based in part on a crowdsourced survey of knowledgeable government officials and public administration experts in the field. It will draw on themes and topics examined in the 350 IBM Center reports published over the past two decades. Part II will outline alternative scenarios of how government might change over the coming 20 years. The scenarios will be developed based on a series of envisioning sessions which are bringing together practitioners and academics to examine the future. The scenarios will be supplemented with short essays on various topics. Part II will also include essays by winners of the Center’s Challenge Grant competition. Challenge Grant winners will be awarded grants to identify futuristic visions of government in 2040. Contributions by Mark A. Abramson, David A. Bray, Daniel J. Chenok, Lee Feldman, Lora Frecks, Hollie Russon Gilman, Lori Gordon, John M. Kamensky, Michael J. Keegan, W. Henry Lambright, Tad McGalliard, Shelley H. Metzenbaum, Marc Ott, Sukumar Rao, and Darrell M. West.
Author |
: Thomas Sowell |
Publisher |
: Basic Books |
Total Pages |
: 308 |
Release |
: 2007-06-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780465004669 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0465004660 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Synopsis A Conflict of Visions by : Thomas Sowell
Thomas Sowell’s “extraordinary” explication of the competing visions of human nature lie at the heart of our political conflicts (New York Times) Controversies in politics arise from many sources, but the conflicts that endure for generations or centuries show a remarkably consistent pattern. In this classic work, Thomas Sowell analyzes this pattern. He describes the two competing visions that shape our debates about the nature of reason, justice, equality, and power: the "constrained" vision, which sees human nature as unchanging and selfish, and the "unconstrained" vision, in which human nature is malleable and perfectible. A Conflict of Visions offers a convincing case that ethical and policy disputes circle around the disparity between both outlooks.
Author |
: Tracy B. Strong |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 423 |
Release |
: 2012-04-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226777467 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226777464 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (67 Downloads) |
Synopsis Politics Without Vision by : Tracy B. Strong
Politics without Vision takes up the thought of seven influential thinkers, each of whom attempted to construct a political solution to this problem: Nietzsche, Weber, Freud, Lenin, Schmitt, Heidegger, and Arendt. None of these theorists were liberals nor, excepting possibly Arendt, were they democrats—and some might even be said to have served as handmaidens to totalitarianism. And all to a greater or lesser extent shared the common conviction that the institutions and practices of liberalism are inadequate to the demands and stresses of the present times. In examining their thought, Strong acknowledges the political evil that some of their ideas served to foster but argues that these were not necessarily the only paths their explorations could have taken. By uncovering the turning points in their thought—and the paths not taken—Strong strives to develop a political theory that can avoid, and perhaps help explain, the mistakes of the past while furthering the democratic impulse.
Author |
: David T. Koyzis |
Publisher |
: InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages |
: 339 |
Release |
: 2019-05-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780830872060 |
ISBN-13 |
: 083087206X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (60 Downloads) |
Synopsis Political Visions & Illusions by : David T. Koyzis
In this freshly updated, comprehensive study, political scientist David Koyzis surveys the key political ideologies of our era, unpacking the worldview issues inherent to each and pointing out essential strengths and weaknesses. Writing with broad international perspective, Koyzis is a sensible guide for Christians working in the public square, culture watchers, and all students of modern political thought.
Author |
: Sheldon S. Wolin |
Publisher |
: Princeton University Press |
Total Pages |
: 697 |
Release |
: 2009-02-09 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781400824793 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1400824796 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (93 Downloads) |
Synopsis Tocqueville between Two Worlds by : Sheldon S. Wolin
Alexis de Tocqueville may be the most influential political thinker in American history. He also led an unusually active and ambitious career in French politics. In this magisterial book, one of America's most important contemporary theorists draws on decades of research and thought to present the first work that fully connects Tocqueville's political and theoretical lives. In doing so, Sheldon Wolin presents sweeping new interpretations of Tocqueville's major works and of his place in intellectual history. As he traces the origins and impact of Tocqueville's ideas, Wolin also offers a profound commentary on the general trajectory of Western political life over the past two hundred years. Wolin proceeds by examining Tocqueville's key writings in light of his experiences in the troubled world of French politics. He portrays Democracy in America, for example, as a theory of discovery that emerged from Tocqueville's contrasting experiences of America and of France's constitutional monarchy. He shows us how Tocqueville used Recollections to reexamine his political commitments in light of the revolutions of 1848 and the threat of socialism. He portrays The Old Regime and the French Revolution as a work of theoretical history designed to throw light on the Bonapartist despotism he saw around him. Throughout, Wolin highlights the tensions between Tocqueville's ideas and his activities as a politician, arguing that--despite his limited political success--Tocqueville was ''perhaps the last influential theorist who can be said to have truly cared about political life.'' In the course of the book, Wolin also shows that Tocqueville struggled with many of the forces that constrain politics today, including the relentless advance of capitalism, of science and technology, and of state bureaucracy. He concludes that Tocqueville's insights and anxieties about the impotence of politics in a ''postaristocratic'' era speak directly to the challenges of our own ''postdemocratic'' age. A monumental new study of Tocqueville, this is also a rich and provocative work about the past, the present, and the future of democratic life in America and abroad.
Author |
: Edward Pettit |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 1686 |
ISBN-10 |
: BL:A0021948424 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (24 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Visions of Government,&c by : Edward Pettit
Author |
: Francis G. Castles |
Publisher |
: Walter de Gruyter |
Total Pages |
: 256 |
Release |
: 2014-01-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783110904000 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3110904004 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (00 Downloads) |
Synopsis Visions and Realities of Party Government by : Francis G. Castles
Author |
: Joel Brinkley |
Publisher |
: Dey Street Books |
Total Pages |
: 568 |
Release |
: 1998 |
ISBN-10 |
: UOM:39015045629337 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (37 Downloads) |
Synopsis Defining Vision by : Joel Brinkley
Business and politics behind the development of digital high-definition television, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning correspondent who covered it. The true impact of HDTV and how it was developed is more tortured--and the global competition that created it much more exciting--than any newspaper and magazine has been able to report. Here is the story from behind the scenes.
Author |
: Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health |
Publisher |
: National Academies Press |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 1988-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780309581905 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0309581907 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (05 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Future of Public Health by : Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health
"The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.
Author |
: Lisa Wedeen |
Publisher |
: University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages |
: 324 |
Release |
: 2009-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780226877921 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0226877922 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Peripheral Visions by : Lisa Wedeen
The government of Yemen, unified since 1990, remains largely incapable of controlling violence or providing goods and services to its population, but the regime continues to endure despite its fragility and peripheral location in the global political and economic order. Revealing what holds Yemen together in such tenuous circumstances, Peripheral Visions shows how citizens form national attachments even in the absence of strong state institutions. Lisa Wedeen, who spent a year and a half in Yemen observing and interviewing its residents, argues that national solidarity in such weak states tends to arise not from attachments to institutions but through both extraordinary events and the ordinary activities of everyday life. Yemenis, for example, regularly gather to chew qat, a leafy drug similar to caffeine, as they engage in wide-ranging and sometimes influential public discussions of even the most divisive political and social issues. These lively debates exemplify Wedeen’s contention that democratic, national, and pious solidarities work as ongoing, performative practices that enact and reproduce a citizenry’s shared points of reference. Ultimately, her skillful evocations of such practices shift attention away from a narrow focus on government institutions and electoral competition and toward the substantive experience of participatory politics.