Publics in Action
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-769276-9 (ISBN)
In Publics in Action, Christopher Kutz looks at how people should and do come together to create their shared institutions, and the lessons we can learn from one another. He argues that a healthy, dynamic public takes itself seriously as a subject of action, not just the passive beneficiary of a state institution. Kutz builds the book around an extended metaphor: we should understand ourselves as a public that improvises: listening to each other as we riff off shared standards and so creating something new, responsive to the scene and the moment.
Publics in Action makes use of the author's extensive personal experience in public institutions, and in democracies around the world, with a particular focus on the U.S., represented primarily by California -- arguably the world's most successful multi-cultural democracy -- as well as France, and Norway, each of which provides instructive models of healthy publics in action (and some examples of dysfunction). Merging political philosophy and comparative politics, this book will leave both lay and professional readers not only with an enlivened sense of the possibilities of public life, but with new ideas about how we might build the shared future we desperately need.
Christopher Kutz is the C. William Maxeiner Distinguished Professor of Law in the Jurisprudence & Social Policy Program and (by courtesy) Philosophy and Political Science at the University of California, Berkeley. He has held visiting professorships at Columbia, Stanford and Sciences-Po, Paris. His previous books include Complicity: Ethics and Law for a Collective Age (Cambridge, 2000) and On War and Democracy (Princeton, 2016).
Introduction: Active Publics, Improvisational Politics
Chapter 1: Public, Private: What's the Difference?
Chapter 2: Public Resources: But Who Is the Public?
Chapter 3: The Climate Crisis and the Global Public
Chapter 4: The Public in Public Education
Chapter 5: Public Safety, Public Freedom
Chapter 6: Public Spheres: Talking and Acting Together
Conclusion: Principles for Effective Publics
Appendix A: Sources for Table 2.1
| Erscheinungsdatum | 14.08.2025 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | New York |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 148 x 216 mm |
| Gewicht | 417 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-19-769276-1 / 0197692761 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-19-769276-9 / 9780197692769 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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