The Politics Of Moral Capital

Author : John Kane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521663571
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Moral Capital written by John Kane and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is often said that politics is an amoral realm of power and interest in which moral judgment is irrelevant. In this book, by contrast, John Kane argues that people's positive moral judgments of political actors and institutions provide leaders with an important resource, which he christens 'moral capital'. Negative judgements cause a loss of moral capital which jeopardizes legitimacy and political survival. Studies of several historical and contemporary leaders - Lincoln, de Gaulle, Mandela, Aung San Suu Kyi - illustrate the significance of moral capital for political legitimation, mobilizing support, and the creation of strategic opportunities. In the book's final section, Kane applies his arguments to the American presidency from Kennedy to Clinton. He argues that a moral crisis has afflicted the nation at its mythical heart and has been refracted through and enacted within its central institutions, eroding the moral capital of government and people and undermining the nation's morale.

Author : John Kane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521663366
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Moral Capital written by John Kane and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-08-23 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Kane argues that, despite appearances, politicians and governments care deeply about people's moral judgments, for these provide the moral capital they depend on for survival and effective functioning. Some famous leaders--Lincoln, de Gaulle, Mandela--illustrate the workings of moral capital in politics, and a study of the American presidency from Kennedy to Clinton shows how the moral capital of the United States has been eroded, with severe consequences for the nation's morale.

Author : Christopher Z. Mooney
Publisher : CQ Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Public Clash of Private Values written by Christopher Z. Mooney and published by CQ Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abortion, capital punishment, gambling, homosexual rights, pornography, physician assisted suicide, and sex education are among the most controversial issues facing public policymakers today. All involve controversial questions of first principle that render public policy no less than legal sanctions of right or wrong, or morality policy. Mooney brings together top researchers in the field to explore the unique characteristics and politics of morality policy. The result is a definition of the current state of knowledge in the field and a guideline for future observation.

Author : Raymond Tatalovich
Publisher : M.E. Sharpe
ISBN 13 : 0765627450
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Controversies in American Politics written by Raymond Tatalovich and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This popular book impartially examines eight hotly-contested current political issues in which one or or both sides seeks to use government authority to enforce certain norms of behavior--in chapters that are

Author : Ariel Wilkis
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 1503604365
Total Pages : 177 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moral Power of Money written by Ariel Wilkis and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2017-12-19 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looking beneath the surface of seemingly ordinary social interactions, The Moral Power of Money investigates the forces of power and morality at play, particularly among the poor. Drawing on fieldwork in a slum of Buenos Aires, Ariel Wilkis argues that money is a critical symbol used to negotiate not only material possessions, but also the political, economic, class, gender, and generational bonds between people. Through vivid accounts of the stark realities of life in Villa Olimpia, Wilkis highlights the interplay of money, morality, and power. Drawing out the theoretical implications of these stories, he proposes a new concept of moral capital based on different kinds, or "pieces," of money. Each chapter covers a different "piece"—money earned from the informal and illegal economies, money lent through family and market relations, money donated with conditional cash transfers, political money that binds politicians and their supporters, sacrificed money offered to the church, and safeguarded money used to support people facing hardships. This book builds an original theory of the moral sociology of money, providing the tools for understanding the role money plays in social life today.

Author : John Kane
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300137125
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Between Virtue and Power written by John Kane and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this survey of U.S. history, John Kane looks at the tensions between American virtue and power and how those tensions have influenced foreign policy. Americans have long been suspicious of power as a threat to individual liberty, Kane argues, and yet the growth of national power has been perceived as a natural byproduct of American virtue. This contradiction has posed a persistent crisis that has influenced the trajectory of American diplomacy and foreign relations for more than two hundred years. Kane examines the various challenges, including emerging Nationalism, isolationism, and burgeoning American power, which have at times challenged not only foreign policy but American national identity. The events of September 11, 2001, rekindled Americans' sense of righteousness, the author observes, but the subsequent use of power in Iraq has raised questions about the nation’s virtue and, as in earlier days, cast a deep shadow over its purpose and direction.

Author : Christopher Leslie Brown
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807838950
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Moral Capital written by Christopher Leslie Brown and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2012-12-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century, Christopher Leslie Brown challenges prevailing scholarly arguments that locate the roots of abolitionism in economic determinism or bourgeois humanitarianism. Brown instead connects the shift from sentiment to action to changing views of empire and nation in Britain at the time, particularly the anxieties and dislocations spurred by the American Revolution. The debate over the political rights of the North American colonies pushed slavery to the fore, Brown argues, giving antislavery organizing the moral legitimacy in Britain it had never had before. The first emancipation schemes were dependent on efforts to strengthen the role of the imperial state in an era of weakening overseas authority. By looking at the initial public contest over slavery, Brown connects disparate strands of the British Atlantic world and brings into focus shifting developments in British identity, attitudes toward Africa, definitions of imperial mission, the rise of Anglican evangelicalism, and Quaker activism. Demonstrating how challenges to the slave system could serve as a mark of virtue rather than evidence of eccentricity, Brown shows that the abolitionist movement derived its power from a profound yearning for moral worth in the aftermath of defeat and American independence. Thus abolitionism proved to be a cause for the abolitionists themselves as much as for enslaved Africans.

Author : Xiaoxi Wang
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783662455456
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Moral Capital written by Xiaoxi Wang and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-28 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Simon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 170 pages
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Download or read book The Glass House written by Paul Simon and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Michael J. Perry
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108150357
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Global Political Morality written by Michael J. Perry and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Global Political Morality, Michael J. Perry addresses several related questions in human rights theory, political theory and constitutional theory. He begins by explaining what the term 'human right' means and then elaborates and defends the morality of human rights, which is the first truly global morality in human history. Perry also pursues the implications of the morality of human rights for democratic governance and for the proper role of courts - especially the US Supreme Court - in protecting constitutionally entrenched human rights. The principal constitutional controversies discussed in the book are capital punishment, race-based affirmative action, same-sex marriage, physician-assisted suicide and abortion.