Children are routinely excluded from expressing their opinions involving medical decisions that affect them. This article discusses the complex reasons why children’s voices typically are not heard in the US, the consequences of their dis-empowerment, and the ethical obligations of health care providers to advocate for the rights of children even in the absence of a legal mandate to do so.
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Back to Basics
The study of public affairs is inevitably particularistic; that is, it is focused upon analysis and management of the public’s business as that business is defined by a particular society at a particular time. Such a study must begin with the rules a given society has established to direct and constrain its government; that is, with analysis of constitutional assumptions about the roles, rights and responsibilities of government and its citizens, and the relationship between them.
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Reducing Identity politics in the Workplace
The official American vision of equality has been one of a society in which group identity is legally irrelevant, where individual conduct is the only proper concern of government, and individual merit the only determinant of reward in the workplace. In such a meritocracy, individuals are rewarded or punished …
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Benefit or Blackmail?
The past ten years have given rise to an almost unprecedented building boom involving new stadiums and arenas for professional sports teams. By the year 2002 at least 60 percent of the 121 major sports franchises will be playing their home games in a facility built or remodeled since 1991. With construction costs in…
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Privatization and the Twenty-First Century City
Political Rhetoric and Reality in the Indianapolis Experiment
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