| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 228 pages) |
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UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Political Science and Policy Studies
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| Contents |
Introduction : when care is no longer "at home" -- Envisioning a caring democracy. Redefining democracy as settling disputes about care responsibilities ; Why personal responsibility isn't enough for democracy -- How we care now. Tough guys don't care, do they? : gender, freedom, and care ; Vicious circles of privatized caring : care, equality, and democracy ; Can markets be caring? : markets, care, and justice -- Imagining democratic caring practices and caring democracies. Democratic caring ; Caring democracy |
| Summary |
Americans face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people's time for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves. At the same time, political involvement in the United States is at an all-time low, and although political life should help us to care better, people see caring as unsupported by public life and deem the concerns of politics as remote from their lives. This book argues that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our fundamental values and commitments, from a caring perspective. The idea that production and economic life are the most important political and human concerns ignores the reality that caring, for ourselves and others, should be the highest value that shapes how we view the economy, politics, and institutions such as schools and the family. Care is at the center of our human lives, but the author argues it is too far removed from the concerns of politics. This book traces the reasons for this disconnection and argues for the need to make care, not economics, the central concern of democratic political life |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-214) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
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Caring.
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Democracy.
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Equality.
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Social justice.
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Humanity.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Democracy.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Humanity
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Caring
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Democracy
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Equality
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Social justice
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Feminismus
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Demokratie
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Kritik
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Privatisierung
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Gesundheitswesen
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Krankenpflege
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Altenpflege
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Politische Beteiligung
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Philosophie économique.
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USA
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2012043770 |
| ISBN |
0814770452 |
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9780814770450 |
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9780814770344 |
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0814770347 |
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