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Public Policy and the Public Good (Hardcover, New)
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Public Policy and the Public Good (Hardcover, New)
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As a reading of the recent literature indicates, there has been a
trend among public policy analysts to disavow the utility of the
Western political tradition for understanding contemporary social
dilemmas. This edited collection demonstrates that the history of
political philosophy actually increases the awareness of the nature
of such problems. By employing models of historical understanding,
the contributors permit political theory to illuminate the dilemmas
underlying modern policy questions and permit historical theorists
to model perspectives that are useful in confronting current policy
alternatives. Each of the book's ten chapters, written by some of
today's most respected political theorists, explains how knowledge
of a specific historical thinker or school of thought can lead to a
clearer appreciation of a particular contemporary American policy
issue. Among the topics included are an analysis of capital
punishment from the perspective of ancient Judaic law; Plato on
television news; Aristotle on the crisis in American public
education; Aquinas on the controversies involved in American health
care policy; Martin Luther on political leadership in democracies;
a Hobbesian approach to American interest-group liberalism; a
Lockean appraisal of North American native peoples' land claims; a
modern republican examination of affirmative action; a liberal
critique of surrogate motherhood; and Marx on the social
consequences of computer technology. Together, these chapters serve
to highlight the Western political tradition and put its
accumulated wisdom to use in solving current policy questions. This
book will be a valuable resource for courses in public policy
analysis, American political thought, and Western political
philosophy. Both public and academic libraries will also find it to
be a useful addition to their collections.
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