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Showing 1 to 20 of 123 for “"Common Good"”.
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Introducing the Common Good Index and a Common Good Immigration Ethic
… framework to immigration ethics is a specified common good approach, which is created in this dissertation. This approach uses the definition of the common good found in Catholic social thought and concretizes it through using a theological anthropology based in Martha Nussbaum's human …
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Public debt and the common good.
… and injustice or the incapacity for the common good can help explain state indebtedness. Centralization is the primary institutional feature measured in statistical modeling and shown to have a significant, positive relationship with state debt. A unifying classical theme of …
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Agape and Emancipation: The Common Good in Recent Postcolonial Fiction
… of domination, but it also has something in common with liberal thought, which assumes that education will improve those who are not already free to participate in market relations. For both these liberal and Marxist traditions, ignorance is tantamount to un-freedom, and ignorant people, …
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Once upon a common good: where have the commissions gone?
… Commissions, their impact, their relation to the common good and equitable outcomes for students. The literature review reveals their historical and political contexts and their connections to Ontario education policy and sheds light on challenges to equitable outcomes for students from previous …
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The Sacrifices of the American Textile Industry and the Common Good
… of the textile community and their notion of the common good. U.S. Representative Butler Derrick and Senator Ernest F. Hollings recognized the threat to the common good in the early 1980s and spent the following two decades fighting to protect the textile community from the conflicting interests …
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Cultivating the common good : civic life and religious contexts in American society.
Social scientists have long recognized a positive link between religion and civic life in the United States. Americans who attend religious services more frequently, who pray more often, and who are more involved in the life of a congregation tend to be more civically engaged than their …
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Data as a Common Good: Essays on Data Portability and B2B Industrial Data Sharing
Data is an important resource in our economy and society, substantially improving overall business efficiency, innovativeness and competitiveness, and shaping our everyday lives. Yet, to leverage the data's full potential, its access and availability is vital. Thus, data sharing across …
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The common good in a plural society: Muslims, Christians and the Public Arena in Britain
This thesis develops an idea of how the common good might be pursued in a plural society, beginning from Jonathan Sacks' vision of such a society as a'community of communities'. It does so principally by developing Alasdair Maclnytre's concept of 'tradition'. Chapter 1 begins by assembling …
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Thinking Together about the Common Good: The Political Implications of Thomas Aquinas's Theory of Conscience
… whether the action or choice violates the common good. In this case, there is a risk that conscience can become identified with subjectivism, radical individualism, or autonomy. I suggest that a re-examination of the theory of conscience found in Aquinas, especially as it relates to human …
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Treatment as a Common Good: Adopting HIV/AIDS Policy in Russia and South Africa, 1999-2008
… societal agreement about what constitutes the "common good" served by state (e.g., "social purpose") informs how domestic policy-makers evaluate the benefits of adopting international recommendations. This agreement also affects how governments frame the provision of treatment, decide which …
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Rethinking Nation-Building: A Christian Socio-Ethical and Theo-Political Task for Appropriating the Common Good
<p>nation-building as a coomon good</p>
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Pursuing the common good : overcoming barriers to collective action through transboundary water negotiation along the Blue Nile River
… In this research, I attempt to delineate common procedural and context-specific barriers to collective action within transboundary water negotiations in the Nile River Basin. I compare efforts by three countries -- Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan --
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The Genesis and Gestation of a Justice Journey: Catherine Pinkerton, CSJ, Champion of and Educator for the Common Good
… developing her extraordinary commitment to the common good. Data are viewed through the Deweyan lens of education as continuous, participative, and experiential. Additionally, the study illuminates from Pinkerton's speeches examples of her education of others regarding the need for the common …
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Selfishness, altruism and utility in everyday two-person random interactions: effects of strong reciprocity, the common good and the costs of competition
… an increase in the return on selfishness, common or public good or cost of competition in 2PRIM can have a similar impact as strong reciprocity in such two-person random interactions.
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A Communitarian Approach to Accountability for the Common Good: A Case Study of Community Participation in Planning and Policy Making for Lake Taupo
… communitarian approach to accountability for the common good (CAACG). The hermeneutic analysis adopted in this study starts by explaining the researcher's pre-understandings which includes contemporary ideas on accountability, communitarianism and sustainability. A theoretical communitarian model …
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Combatting grand corruption alongside state-building: the role of the South Sudan Anti-Corruption Commission and the Episcopal Church of South Sudan in defence of the common good
… levels of corruption that are detrimental to the common good and building an ideal-type state. Mutations of grand corruption showed a problematic increase in contest between moulding the government infrastructure around elites' private interests, against building and strengthening state …
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A comparison between the theological approach of the 1992 Australian Catholic bishops' statement on the distribution of wealth in Australia, Common wealth for the common good, and some selected theological types
… of this thesis, the 1992 Bishops' Statement, Common Wealth for the Common Good, has as its main theme the distribution of wealth in Australia. It is the culmination of a five year process of consultation and drafting by the Bishops' Committee for Justice, Development and Peace (BCJDP), under …
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