On Thinking Institutionally (On Politics)

The twenty-first-century mind deeply distrusts the authority of institutions. It has taken several centuries for advocates of critical thinking to convince western culture that to be rational, liberated, authentic, and modern means to be anti-institutional. In this mold-breaking book, Hugh Heclo moves beyond the abstract academic realm of thinking about institutions to the more personal significance and larger social meaning of what it is to think institutionally. His account ranges from Michael Jordan's respect for the game of basketball to Greek philosophy, from twenty-first-century corporate and political scandals to Christian theology and the concept of office and professionalism. Think what you will about one institution or another, but after Heclo, no reader will be left in doubt about why it matters to think institutionally.

Politics & Social Sciences

Heclo, Hugh

Politics & Government

Oxford University Press

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Modern social politics in Britain and Sweden;: From relief to income maintenance (Yale studies in political science)

Yale University Press

'This substantial textbook, now in its third edition, is revised to take account of recent policy scholarship and theorizing, with a wider coverage of countries (more on Japan and Australia) and a new chapter on environmental policy replacing the one on local government.

Comparative Public Policy: The Politics of Social Choice in Europe and America

Heidenheimer, Arnold

Adams, Carolyn Teich

Bedford/St.Martins

The private government of public money: Community and policy inside British politics

Administrative Law

Macmillan

Format Paperback Publisher Palgrave Macmillan

The Private Government of Public Money: Community and Policy inside British Politics

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

The Illusion Of Presidential Government

"Presidential government is an illusion. It is an image that misleads presidents no less than the media and the American public." Thus begins this realistic look at the presidency, in which nine leading presidential scholars examine how and why we are under the illusion of presidential government and ask such questions as: What is the president's actual role? What has happened to his traditional tools of executive leadership? How is the office of the president organized to deal with domestic, economic, and national security affairs? is federal regulation an area of potential power for the president? And, if "presidential government" is indeed a myth, what can be done to help the presidency play a more effective part in constitutional government? Each chapter probes a different facet of the image of presidential government by looking at the major operations of the modern presidency-from struggles with Congress for control of administrative detail to problems of managing the economy and national security. The book closes with the final report of the National Academy of Public Administration's Panel on Presidential Management. Not surprisingly, the authors do not always agree; nevertheless, they are united in the view that the managerial role of the president must be seen as a whole-and without illusions.

Salamon, Lester M.

Routledge

Christianity, not religion in general, has been important for American democracy. With this bold thesis, Hugh Heclo offers a panoramic view of how Christianity and democracy have shaped each other. 
 Heclo shows that amid deeply felt religious differences, a Protestant colonial society gradually convinced itself of the truly Christian reasons for, as well as the enlightened political advantages of, religious liberty. By the mid-twentieth century, American democracy and Christianity appeared locked in a mutual embrace. But it was a problematic union vulnerable to fundamental challenge in the Sixties. Despite the subsequent rise of the religious right and glib talk of a conservative Republican theocracy, Heclo sees a longer-term, reciprocal estrangement between Christianity and American democracy. 
 Responding to his challenging argument, Mary Jo Bane, Michael Kazin, and Alan Wolfe criticize, qualify, and amend it. Heclo's rejoinder suggests why both secularists and Christians should worry about a coming rupture between the Christian and democratic faiths. The result is a lively debate about a momentous tension in American public life.

Christianity and American Democracy

History

World

Harvard University Press

Christianity, not religion in general, has been important for American democracy. With this bold thesis, Hugh Heclo offers a panoramic view of how Christianity and democracy have shaped each other.
Heclo shows that amid deeply felt religious differences, a Protestant colonial society gradually convinced itself of the truly Christian reasons for, as well as the enlightened political advantages of, religious liberty. By the mid-twentieth century, American democracy and Christianity appeared locked in a mutual embrace. But it was a problematic union vulnerable to fundamental challenge in the Sixties. Despite the subsequent rise of the religious right and glib talk of a conservative Republican theocracy, Heclo sees a longer-term, reciprocal estrangement between Christianity and American democracy.
Responding to his challenging argument, Mary Jo Bane, Michael Kazin, and Alan Wolfe criticize, qualify, and amend it. Heclo’s rejoinder suggests why both secularists and Christians should worry about a coming rupture between the Christian and democratic faiths. The result is a lively debate about a momentous tension in American public life.

Christianity and American Democracy (The Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics)

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On Thinking Institutionally (On Politics)

On Thinking Institutionally (On Politics)

Modern social politics in Britain and Sweden;: From relief to income maintenance (Yale studies in political science)

Comparative Public Policy: The Politics of Social Choice in Europe and America

The private government of public money: Community and policy inside British politics

The Private Government of Public Money: Community and Policy inside British Politics

The Illusion Of Presidential Government

The Illusion Of Presidential Government

Christianity and American Democracy

Christianity and American Democracy (The Alexis de Tocqueville Lectures on American Politics)