Gregg Coping in Politics with Indeterminate Norms

A Theory of Enlightened Localism
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-0-7914-8659-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 220 Seiten

Reihe: SUNY series in Political Theory: Contemporary Issues

Argues that social equity and legal justice are possible even in the absence of universal political norms.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gregg, Benjamin

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments Introduction
I: THE PROBLEM: INDETERMINATE NORMS
1. Indeterminacy in Social and Political Norms
II: THE SOLUTION: BASIC COMPONENTS
2. Coping with Indeterminacy through Proceduralism
3. Coping with Indeterminacy through Pragmatism
III: THE SOLUTION: LOCALISM WITHOUT PAROCHIALISM
4. Enlightened Localism in Social Critique
5. Enlightened Localism in Public Policy
6. Enlightened Localism in Law and Morality Coda: Social Cooperation in the Absence of Political Unity Notes
Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Benjamin Gregg is Associate Professor of Government at The University of Texas at Austin and the author of Thick Moralities, Thin Politics: Social Integration Across Communities of Belief.