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Ethics and Public Policy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 May 2020

George J. Graham Jr.
George J. Graham Jr.*
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University
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Extract

The purpose of this course is to introduce a new framework linking the humanities to public policy analysis as pursued in the government and the academy. Current efforts to link the particular contributions from the humanities to problems of public policy choice are often narrow either in terms of their perspective on the humanities or in terms of their selection of the possible means of influencing policy choice. Sometimes a single text from one of the humanities disciplines is selected to apply to a particular issue. At other times, arguments about the ethical dimensions of a single policy issue often are pursued with a single — or sometimes, no — point of access to the policy process in mind.

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Research Article
Information
News for Teachers of Political Science , Volume 29 , Spring 1981 , pp. 1 - 9
Copyright
Copyright © American Political Science Association 1981

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References

Syllabus - Reading Assignments

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