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Ethical concerns are among the most common problems public administrators face, yet the issues are often complex, and the correct choices are not always clear. Living up to the public trust is much more than just an act of compliance. It also involves perceiving, preventing, avoiding, and resolving accusations of illegal or unethical behavior, including appearances of inappropriate behavior. Ethics Moments in Government: Cases and Controversies examines how to identify, assess, and resolve the ethical issues and dilemmas that often confront those who govern the cities, counties, states, and federal agencies throughout America. Real Situations, Real Advice Providing a one-stop resource for all those who must contend with thorny ethical issues, this volume presents case studies that vary in complexity and context and are based on real situations. Each case scenario is followed by discussion questions and case assessments by expert practitioners who describe how they would handle the situation. Using a "total immersion" technique, the book encourages readers to be reflexive and analytical in addressing the problems presented and arriving at appropriate solutions. A supplemental CD is included which contains PowerPoint® slide presentations, articles, workshop programs, tests, and links to organizations. For many of the scenarios presented in this volume, there are no easy answers. Practical guidance on reasoning through difficult decision-making situations enables public administrators to acquire the ethical knowledge, skills, abilities, and instincts that will ultimately help them gain the trust of their citizens and advance in their careers.

Cover; Book title; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Section 1: Rights, the law and the legal system in England€and Wales; Chapter 1: Rights and responsibilities; Chapter 2: The law; Chapter 3: The legal system; Section 2: Democracy and government; Chapter 4: Democracy, elections and voting in the UK; Chapter 5: National, local, regional and devolved government; Chapter 6: The British constitution; Chapter 7: The economy, finance and money; Chapter 8: The role of the media and free press; Chapter 9: Citizen participation in the UK and taking citizenship action

The military at home in America -- The origins -- Soldiers as peacekeepers, soldiers as cops -- Soldiers as jailors -- Soldiers as judges -- Soldiers as investigators -- Soldiers in charge -- Soldiers at home in the age of terrorism -- The military in twenty-first-century America : leaning forward

1. Setting the scene: locating disability in Sierra Leone -- 2. Intersections between anthropology, disability, development and conflict -- 3. A general and socio-historical analysis of impairment and disability -- 4. The political background of the creation of disability -- 5. Rebuilding and rehabilitating the nation state: creating national memory and disabled subjectivity? -- 6. Rebuilding the social world -- 7. Managing life as an individual? -- 8. Disability mainstreaming and social activism -- 9. Reparations, reintegration and peace -- 10. Looking to the future.

1. Access to justice and its relevance for people with disabilities -- 2. Access to justice and its intellectual antecedents in international human rights law -- 3. Accessing the law : information, advice and representation -- 4. Access and participation in court : structures, evidence and procedures -- 5. Incorporating disability in legal education and practice : a call for consciousness-raising -- 6. Participatory justice, deliberation and representation in public and political life.

Für viele Studierende ist das Sachenrecht ein Buch mit sieben Siegeln, wobei der Eigentumserwerb dinglicher Sachen aus dem eigenen Erfahrungsschatz noch am ehesten nachvollziehbar ist. Hier setzt Band I der Lehrbücher zum Sachenrecht an und verdeutlicht das Ineinandergreifen von Schuld- und Sachenrecht anhand zahlreicher Fallbeispiele. Für die Literaturrecherche zu Hausarbeiten und zur Vertiefung folgen jedem Abschnitt weiterführende Hinweise

This work offers a timely philosophical analysis of interrelated normative questions concerning immigration and citizenship in relation to the global context of multiple nation states. In it, philosophers and scholars from the social sciences address both fundamental questions in moral and political philosophy as well as specific issues concerning policy. Topics covered in this volume include: the concept and the role of citizenship, the equal rights and representation of citizens, general moral frameworks for addressing immigration issues, the duty to obey immigration law, the use of ethnic, cultural, or linguistic criteria for selective immigration, domestic violence as grounds for political asylum, and our duty to refugees in general. The urgency of the need to discuss these matters is clear. Several humanitarian crises involving human migration across national boundaries stemming from war, economic devastations, gang violence, and violence in ethnic or religious conflicts have unfolded. Political debates concerning immigration and immigrant communities are continuing in many countries, especially during election years. While there have always been migrating human beings, they raise distinctive issues in the modern era because of the political context under which the migrations take place, namely, that of a system of sovereign nation states with rights to control their borders and determine their memberships. This collection provides readers the opportunity to parse these complex issues with the help of diverse philosophical, moral, and political perspectives.

This volume takes a distinctive and innovative approach to a relatively under-explored question, namely: Why do we have human rights? Much political discourse simply proceeds from the idea that humans have rights because they are human without seriously interrogating this notion. It offers an account of how human rights are created and how they may be seen to be legitimate: rights are created through social recognition.

Sometimes the outcome of a lawsuit depends upon sensations known only to the person who experiences them, such as the buzzing sound heard by a plaintiff who suffers from tinnitus after an accident. Lawyers, litigants, and expert witnesses are now seeking to re-create these sensations in the courtroom, using digital technologies to simulate litigants' subjective experiences and thus to help jurors know--not merely know about--what it is like to be inside a litigant's mind. But with this novel type of evidence comes a host of questions: Can anyone really know what it is like to have another person's sensory experiences? Why should courts allow jurors to see or hear these simulations? And how might this evidence alter the ways in which judges and jurors do justice? In Experiencing Other Minds in the Courtroom, Neal Feigenson turns the courtroom into a forum for exploring the profound philosophical, psychological, and legal ramifications of our efforts to know what other people's conscious experiences are truly like. Drawing on disciplines ranging from cognitive psychology to psychophysics to media studies, Feigenson harnesses real examples of digitally simulated subjective perceptions to explain how the epistemological value of this evidence is affected by who creates it, how it is made, and how it is presented. Through his close scrutiny of the different kinds of simulations and the different knowledge claims they make, Feigenson is able to suggest best practices for how we might responsibly incorporate such evidence into the courtroom.