Outsourcing Patriotism: Privatization Goes to War

Substituting new forms of collaboration and management for hierarchical, bureaucratic chains of command cannot and should not mean abandoning traditional commitments to the public values of liberty, equality, and fairness. Public actors have an obligation to meet the standards for government behavior that grow out of those values and are incorporated in public law. As Donald Kettl has observed, the government ?is not just another principal dealing with another agent.? Nowhere can this be seen more clearly than in the ongoing scandal over the abuse of prison inmates in Iraq.
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Moral Opprobrium, Social Capital, and Funding for Mental Health Care:

We examine the effect of blame attribution and community cohesiveness (as proxied by community size) on public attitudes towards responsibility for mental health care. Data for this study were taken from the MacArthur Mental Health Module of the 1996 General Social Survey.
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On Intellectual Freedom

Not too long ago, I had a conversation with a librarian involved professionally with issues of intellectual freedom. “Sometimes,” she said, “I get so tired of it. I wonder why I continue to fight.” I’ve thought about that conversation several times; if I could do an instant replay, I think I would tell her that I know why she keeps at it. It’s because it is so important.
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