Liberal Neutrality

Originally published in 1989 Liberal Neutrality approaches the recommendation of neutrality by confronting the abstract prescription (that we should be neutral) with the implications for particular people and institutions. This not only identifies what neutrality involves logically, but also exposes the practical difficulties that may be encountered in pursuing it. In some cases, such close examination shows that neutrality is not desirable, and in others that it is attainable only within certain limits. Although neutrality has become a fashionable term in political theory, this is the only volume to subject the idea to systematic scrutiny. It will be useful not only to specialists in diverse disciplines - political scientists, philosophers, sociologists, lawyers and educationalists.

List of contents

Acknowledgements 1. Liberalism and Neutrality 2. The Ideal of the Neutral State 3. The Neutrality of the Market 4. Legislation and Moral Neutrality 5. Neutrality and the Civil Service 6. Neutrality in Education 7. Neutrality and the Media 8. The Neutrality of Science and Technology 9. Do Neutral Institutions Add up to Neutral State About the Contributors Index

About the author

Robert Goodin, Andrew Reeve

Summary

Originally published in 1989 Liberal Neutrality approaches the recommendation of neutrality by confronting the abstract prescription (that we should be neutral) with the implications for particular people and institutions.

Product details

• Authors: Robert Reeve Goodin
• Assisted by: Robert Goodin (Editor), Goodin Robert (Editor), Andrew Reeve (Editor), Reeve Andrew (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.11.2018
• EAN: 9781138324039
• ISBN: 978-1-138-32403-9
• No. of pages: 224
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Political science & theory, Political science and theory, Liberalism & centre democratic ideologies, Centrist democratic ideologies