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Inconsistent Ethical Models: Abortion Opposition Ignores Foster Care, Michael Katz
Inconsistent Ethical Models: Abortion Opposition Ignores Foster Care, Michael Katz
Michael Katz
Not all pro-life movements are equivalent. Some states are pushing harder to ban abortion than others. These states are focal points for the pro-life movement, and are therefore most telling as to the ethics of the movement as a whole. To gauge the ethical basis for pro-life legislation, this paper takes a closer look at the nine states that form the locus of the country’s pro-life movement. Possible ethical models are posited as foundations for state legislation opposing abortion, and then used as the analytical basis to test the ethical consistency of the pro-life movement. Specifically, this paper considers whether …
Governance: The Collision Of Politics And Cooperation, Richard Callahan
Governance: The Collision Of Politics And Cooperation, Richard Callahan
Public and Nonprofit Administration
Three newly created public agencies built regional rail projects in Los Angeles County from 1978 through 2002. The Los Angeles County Transportation Commission, the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Authority, and the Alameda Corridor Transportation Authority, as newly created public agencies, were nothing less than experiments in regional governance. Conventional understanding of these agencies only partially explains their successes and failures. A path to improved understanding is to combine research on the politics of designing new public agencies with research on cooperation in dealing with collective action problems.
What emerges is an untold story of American politics: the evolution of mechanisms …