[PDF] Private Virtues Public Vices eBook

Author : Emma Saunders-Hastings
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 32,51 MB
Release : 2022-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 022681615X

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Donations and Deference -- Equality and Philanthropic Relationships -- Plutocratic Philanthropy -- Philanthropic Paternalism -- Ordinary Donors and Democratic Philanthropy -- International Philanthropy.

Author : Emma Saunders-Hastings
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 2022-03-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0226816133

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A thought-provoking challenge to our ideas about philanthropy, marking it as a deeply political activity that allows the wealthy to dictate more than we think. Philanthropy plays a huge role in supporting the provision of many public goods in contemporary societies. As a result, decisions that affect public outcomes and people’s diverse interests are often dependent on the preferences and judgments of the rich. Political theorist Emma Saunders-Hastings argues that philanthropy is a deeply political activity. She asks readers to look at how the power wielded by philanthropy impacts democracy and deepens political inequality by enabling the wealthy to exercise outsize influence in public life and by putting in place paternalistic relationships between donors and their intended beneficiaries. If philanthropy is to be made compatible with a democratic society of equals, it must be judged not simply on the benefits it brings but on its wider political consequences. Timely and thought-provoking, Private Virtues, Public Vices will challenge readers’ thoughts on what philanthropy is and how it truly affects us.

Author : Emma Saunders-Hastings
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 11,42 MB
Release : 2014
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Philanthropy is often considered an unproblematic way for individuals (and especially the rich) to benefit recipients and society by "giving their money away." But philanthropy also gives donors influence and authority, and these powers can be subject to criticism on democratic and egalitarian grounds. This dissertation frames philanthropy as one way in which private money can shape public options and the choices open to individuals. In light of this, it asks what kinds of regulation of philanthropy are appropriate for states committed both to liberal rights and to some vision of equality.

Author : Pedro N. Teixeira
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 50,11 MB
Release : 2011-11-13
Category : Education
ISBN : 9460914667

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Recent years have seen the strengthening of a discourse that emphasises the virtues of markets, competition and private initiative, vis-à-vis the vices of public intervention in higher education. This volume presents a timely reflection about the effects this increasing marketization has been producing in many higher education systems worldwide. The various chapters of this volume analyse the impact of markets at the system level, with significant attention being devoted to the changes in modes of regulation, the strengthening of aspects such as privatization and inter-institutional competition in higher education systems, and the closer interaction between higher education and its economic environment. Several of the contributors devote attention as well to the implications of market forces for institutional change, notably regarding issues such as mission, organizational structure and governance and the way marketization is affecting the internal distribution of power and the definition of priorities. Finally, the volume includes several chapters focusing on the different markets of higher education, such as the academic labour market, undergraduate and postgraduate education, and research markets. Altogether these chapters provide important insights concerning the many national and institutional contexts in which the marketization of higher education has been taking place around the world.

Author : M. M. Goldsmith
Publisher :
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 15,42 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
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This book examines the social and political thought of Bernard Mandeville, whose works, although notorious, had a significant impact on such thinkers as Voltaire, Hume, and Adam Smith. Professor Goldsmith sets out to show how Mandeville's views resulted from his rejection of the ideology of his time, which subordinated private interests to the claims of society or God. Instead, Mandeville proposed self-love as the mechanism of social development and attributed civilisation and the amenities of life to selfishness. Although he did not develop a theory of the free market, his views, by exalting 'private vices' and ridiculing the classical and aristocratic virtues, legitimated the pursuit of gain and the 'spirit of capitalism'.

Author : Jeane J. Kirkpatrick
Publisher : Transaction Publishers
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 15,93 MB
Release : 1988-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781412827478

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Includes all state papers of Jeane J. Kirkpatrick as the United States Permanent Representative to the United Nations. Features U.N. and congressional testimonies, addresses, speeches and statements on international affairs and human rights. Exemplifies Ronald Reagan's foreign policy.

Author : Clarke E. Cochran
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 49,78 MB
Release : 2014-06-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 1317650301

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Religious crosses the spheres of both the private life and the public institution. In a liberal democracy, public and private interests and goals prove to be inseparable. Clarke Cochran’s interdisciplinary study brings political theory and the sociology of religion together in a fresh interpretation of liberal culture. First published in 1990, this analysis begins with a reassessment of the nature of the "public" and the "private" in relation to the political. The controversy over religion and politics is examined in light of such contested issues of political life as sexuality, abortion, and the changing nature of the family. Clarifying a number of debates central to contemporary society, this timely reissue will be of particular value to students with an interest in the relationship between religious, society, and politics.