Restoring Responsability

Informationen zum Autor Dennis F. Thompson is Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy and Professor of Government in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Public Policy in the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Klappentext Dennis Thompson argues for a more robust conception of responsibility in public life than prevails in contemporary democracies. Thompson suggests that we stop thinking about public ethics in terms of individual vices (such as selfishness or sexual misconduct) and start thinking about it in terms of institutional vices (such as abuse of power and lack of accountability). Zusammenfassung In this important collection Thompson argues for a more robust conception of responsibility in public life than prevails in contemporary democracies. He suggests that we should stop thinking so much about public ethics in terms of individual vices and start thinking about it more in terms of institutional vices. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction; Part I. Demands of Institutional Politics: 1. The moral responsibility of public officials: the problem of many hands; 2. Ascribing responsibility to advisers in government; 3. Bureaucracy and democracy; 4. Judicial responsibility: the problem of many minds; 5. Representatives in the welfare state; Part II. Varieties of Institutional Failure: 6. Democratic secrecy: the dilemma of accountability; 7. Mediated corruption: the case of the Keating Five; 8. Election time: normative implications of temporal properties of the electoral process in the US; 9. Hypocrisy and democracy; 10. Private life and public office; Part III. Extensions of Institutional Responsibility: 11. Restoring distrust: the ethics of oversight; 12. The institutional turn in professional ethics; 13. Hospital ethics; 14. Understanding financial conflicts of interest in medicine; 15. The privatization of business ethics; 16. Democratic theory and global society.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Dennis Thompson, Dennis F Thompson, Dennis F. Thompson
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 18.11.2004
• EAN: 9780521547222
• ISBN: 978-0-521-54722-2
• Dimensioni: 150 mm x 227 mm x 20 mm
• Categorie: Libri scolastici > Didattica > Formazione professionale; Saggistica > Filosofia, religione > Filosofia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, MEDICAL / Ethics, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Ethics, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, Business ethics & social responsibility, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Ethical issues & debates, Business ethics and social responsibility, Medical ethics and professional conduct, Medical ethics & professional conduct, Ethical issues and debates