Trust and Diversity: Robert Putnam, George W. Bush and the American Idea Sheila Suess Kennedy Professor of Law and Public Policy School of Public and Environmental Affairs Indiana University Purdue University Indianapolis 801 W. Michigan Street #4061Continue reading “Trust and Diversity: George Bush, Robert Putnam and the American Idea”
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Social Change, Public Policy and Law
Social Change, Public Policy and Law Abstract Public administration practices and public policies are inevitably rooted in the philosophical assumptions that animate a particular society’s legal structures. The thesis of this paper is that certain constitutive decisions—particularly decisions allocating authority for public and private decision-making—will increaseContinue reading “Social Change, Public Policy and Law”
Pursuing Justice
It isn’t only FEMA. Everywhere you look, Administration officials are doing “a heck of a job.” A recent audit of the Justice Department, conducted by the department’s own Inspector General, concluded that only two of Justice’s twenty-six issued reports of terrorism prosecutions have been accurate. The department has routinely inflated the number of terroristsContinue reading “Pursuing Justice”
Not So Goode
When James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin and the rest of the Founders devised our system of representative democracy, they envisioned a system where persons—okay, men—of temperance, substance and education would hold public office. They clearly did not envision Representative Virgil Goode. There has been quite a reaction to Representative Goode’s letterContinue reading “Not So Goode”
Dual Loyalty
When I was a young girl growing up in the not-so-metropolitan town of Anderson/>/>, Indiana, the few Jewish families living in the area were acutely aware of their minority status. One of the most feared accusations Jews faced back then was that of “dual loyalty”—the suspicion that our support for the new stateContinue reading “Dual Loyalty”