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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Maxwell A Cameron |
ISBN: | 0190694335 9780190694333 |
OCLC Number: | 1030971333 |
Description: | xi, 215 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Runaway -- Competitive utility-maximizing -- Activity and agency -- Wise practitioners -- Neoliberal oligarchy -- Hyper-partisanship -- Citizens' democracy. |
Responsibility: | Maxwell A. Cameron. |
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Flaws in institutional performance are seen by Cameron as arising from the lack of practical wisdom and moral judgment of practitioners.The book draws from the tradition of virtue ethics starting with Aristotle, i.e., virtue meaning excellence in the classical Greek sense. Institutions thus depend on wise and moral practitioners to perform well.To this end, Cameron argues for more deliberation and compromise in democracy; moderate partisanship, nothyper-partisanship; weaker executives and stronger legislatures (separation of powers more generally); and more public goods. The book assesses several situations of applying practical wisdom to specific political challenges.It draws on an impressive range of readings and has a very thorough bibliography and a helpfulglossary.This is mainly a work of political theory, but it provides quite useful context for American politics and comparative politics. * A. Siaroff, The University of Lethbridge, CHOICE * Read more...

