God's economy: faith-based initiatives and the caring state
A new era of church-state cooperation -- Religion and welfare reform: old battles and new directions -- Religious autonomy and the limited state -- The social law
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A new era of church-state cooperation -- Religion and welfare reform: old battles and new directions -- Religious autonomy and the limited state -- The social law
In: Policy review, Heft 157, S. ca. 10 S
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In: Policy review: the journal of American citizenship, Heft 157
ISSN: 0146-5945
Examines the historical basis of the new church-state order in the US, arguing that George W. Bush's faith-based initiative does not represent a new front in the culture wars as some insist. After noting President Barack Obama's intention to retain much of Bush's faith-based initiative, background to the initiative is provided. The origins of the faith-based initiative are seen to be rooted in the Great Depression & the New Deal, & it is asserted that the legal & political evolution from equal access to charitable choice to faith-based initiative depends to some extent on changes in welfare spending that spurred closer church-state cooperation. The structural pattern of this cooperation is divided into two phases in policy history; pertinent constitutional law & legislation are identified. Attention is then given to constitutional scholar Noah Feldman's (2005) church-state proposal. D. Edelman
In: Dissent: a quarterly of politics and culture, Band 56, Heft 4, S. 88-91
ISSN: 1946-0910
The start of the twenty-first century finds America in a perilous state that many consider to be a turning point in our history, one that could lead to a painful decline in living standards. According to recent polls, a majority of Americans believe that today's children will not fare better than their parents did, and many will fare worse. Such pessimism is justified. Between the slow decline of average wages and benefits since the late 1970s, and the huge overhang of consumer and public debt, there seems to be nowhere to turn for prosperity. Much attention is focused on health care, education, and retirement, systems in deep crisis as the costs of these critical life-cycle needs have risen far beyond both the earning and saving capacity of average households and the spending capacity of government at current tax levels.
In: Dissent: a journal devoted to radical ideas and the values of socialism and democracy, Band 56, Heft 4, S. 88-91
ISSN: 0012-3846
After a summation of the state of US income inequality, the moral principle of "deservingness" as applied to entitlements is explored. Problems with deeply entrenched assumptions about the creation & distribution of income & wealth are addressed, along with economic growth as underpinned by cumulative learning & other forms of social value, particularly as linked to inherited productive capacity. Attention is given to Robert Solow's (1957) ideas on economic growth as chiefly a function of technological progress rather than labor or capital accumulation, indicating that the individual's contributions are far more modest than those of society. Thus, if deservingness is deemed the test, an individual's reward ought to be equally modest. A call is then made for a better understanding of the kind & degree of social value driving economic growth, particularly the inheritance of scientific & other forms of productive knowledge, to the public debate so that it is no longer framed in terms moral assertions of individual "deservingness" vs "undeservingness" in social policy development. That is, in understanding that much of current value derives from a "common patrimony of cumulative infrastructure & knowledge," the moral debate can be redefined with a more rigorous application of the moral principle of deservingness, leading to a dismantling of what is termed, per Leonard Trelawny Hobbhouse (1911), "private socialism." D. Edelman. Adapted from the source document.
In: Dissent: a journal devoted to radical ideas and the values of socialism and democracy, S. 88-91
ISSN: 0012-3846