American Behavioral Scientist articles from September 1994

American Behavioral Scientist archives from September 1994

Introduction: Sir Geoffrey Vickers. (public policy expert) (Rethinking Public Policy-Making: Questioning Assumptions, Challenging Beliefs)
September 1, 1994... Having reached my own centenary, I can only say that I wish Geoffrey could be reaching his in 1994, instead of having left us in 1982 at the age of 87. His wisdom and foresight are sadly needed in today's world, whose problems he clearly...

Vickers and postliberalism. (public policy writer Geoffrey Vickers) (Rethinking Public Policy-Making: Questioning Assumptions, Challenging Beliefs)
September 1, 1994... It is entirely characteristic that Geoffrey Vickers, in his preface to the Art of Judgment, should have acknowledged that the names that gratitude first brought to his mind were those of a physicist, a physiologist, a sociologist, a economist,...

Communitarianism, Vickers, and revisioning American public administration. (public policy expert Geoffrey Vickers) (Rethinking Public Policy-Making: Questioning Assumptions, Challenging Beliefs)
September 1, 1994... The sanest like the maddest of us cling like spiders to a self-spun web, obscurely moored in vacancy and fiercely shaken by the winds of change. Yet thi frail web, through which many see only the void, is the one enduring artifact, the one...

Judgment and the cultivation of appreciation in policy-making. (Rethinking Public Policy-Making: Questioning Assumptions, Challenging Beliefs)
September 1, 1994... For many years now, I have been doing intermittent fieldwork in a setting that my colleagues find anything but thrilling, the staff meetings of a small-city Department of City Planning. My colleagues have a point at times, but more ofte they...

Systems theory and management thinking. (Rethinking Public Policy-Making: Questioning Assumptions, Challenging Beliefs)
September 1, 1994... Two rich metaphors provide a useful frame within which any consideration of the problems facing us in the late 20th century can, with advantage, be placed. As result of the first industrial revolution, based on energy, and the current second...

Health, health care reform, and the care of health. (Rethinking Public Policy-Making: Questioning Assumptions, Challenging Beliefs)
September 1, 1994... A historically new situation in health and health care services compelled policymakers in Western industrial countries to address new policy issues durin the 1980s and 1990s. Different streams of social and economic change came together,...

Community medicine and the world of the well. (Rethinking Public Policy-Making: Questioning Assumptions, Challenging Beliefs)
September 1, 1994... I am afraid of those who look for a tendency between the lines and who insist o seeing me as necessarily either a liberal or a conservative. I am not a liberal not a conservative, not a gradualist, not a monk and not an indifferentist....

The process of education. (Rethinking Public Policy-Making: Questioning Assumptions, Challenging Beliefs)
September 1, 1994... Students and teachers often confuse information and knowledge. Students view their task as memorizing facts. Teachers encourage such a view by presenting their messages with no hint of history or evolution. Addition and multiplicatio facts are...

The management of international conflict. (Rethinking Public Policy-Making: Questioning Assumptions, Challenging Beliefs)
September 1, 1994... John Lewis Gaddis's major article (1986) on the "long peace" that followed the Second World War has generated a considerable literature concerned with analyzing the factors that allowed for this period of relative stability in the...

Autonomy, interdependence, and moral governance: pluralism in a rocking boat. (Rethinking Public Policy-Making: Questioning Assumptions, Challenging Beliefs)
September 1, 1994... The meaning of stability is likely to remain obscured in Western cultures until they rediscover the fact that life consists in experiencing relations, rather than in seeking goals or "ends." Geoffrey Vickers Freedom in a Rocking Boat The...

Conditions for social responsibility. (Rethinking Public Policy-Making: Questioning Assumptions, Challenging Beliefs)
September 1, 1994... Responsibility, both individual and social, was a major integrating theme in th writings of Sir Geoffrey Vickers.(1) His concern for responsibility as a condition for the integrity, stability, and moral quality of society was set ou explicitly...