Making Progress: Essays in Progress and Public PolicyC. Leigh Anderson, Janet W. Looney Lexington Books, 2002 - 428페이지 While a universal definition of 'progress' has proved elusive, measures of progress have been defined and grouped, into the broad areas of material wealth; social relations; technical capacity; and moral, aesthetic, and intellectual sensibilities. However, not until the 'Progress Project, ' whose results are gathered here, has the impact of progress on public policy in these realms been systematically explored. In this volume, noted scholars in economics, government, education, technology, literature, culture, and religion, among other fields, discuss the meaning and measurement of progress in their areas of specialty. They assess particular policies that have either promoted or retarded progress and provide recommendations for policy processes or instruments that better reflect the nature of forward movement in the current era. Making Progress is an important contribution to both the theoretical and practical literature on public policy; it is a resource for scholars and students as well as a guide for policymakers, analysts, and advocates who help craft those policies in the name of progress. |
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Progress and the Promise of Public Policy | 3 |
Two Steps Forward and One Step Back An Assessment of Progress in the Twentieth Century | 29 |
Making Progress in Implementation Scholarship A Survey of the Literature | 43 |
The Domains of Progress | 59 |
Progress in Ourselves Introduction | 61 |
Progress and Evolution | 67 |
The Meaning of Progress in the New Millennium | 79 |
Faith and the Future Religion and the Problem of Progress in the New Millennium | 89 |
Ethnopolitical Warfare and Massacres Is There Progress? | 219 |
Progress and Contentious Politics | 239 |
NGOs Development and Human Rights A Story of Progress and Policy | 247 |
Free Press Profit Margins and Democratic Governance Is There a Fatal Flaw? | 267 |
Progress in Our Material and Natural World Introduction | 291 |
Progress and the Natural Sciences Issues and Perspectives | 297 |
Progress An Economists View | 319 |
Perhaps Progress Really Is Our Most Important Product A Feminist Contemplates the Twentieth Century | 329 |
Progress in Literature | 101 |
Paradoxical Progress Medical Advances and Moral Anxiety | 113 |
Young Children The First Step in Progress | 125 |
Progress and Education Supporting the Realization of Human Aspirations | 139 |
Progress in Our Relations with Others Introduction | 159 |
Achieving Progress in Solving CollectiveAction Problems | 165 |
Is There Cultural Progress? | 191 |
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xxxvii 페이지 - If it is good to know how to deal with men as they are, it is much better to make them what there is need that they should be. The most absolute authority is that which penetrates into a man's inmost being, and concerns itself no less with his will than with his actions.
xxxi 페이지 - Whether it be in the development of the Earth, in the development of Life upon its surface, in the development of Society, of Government, of Manufactures, of Commerce, of Language, Literature, Science, Art, this same evolution of the simple into the complex, through successive differentiations, holds throughout. From the earliest traceable cosmical changes down to the latest results of civilization, we shall find that the transformation of the homogeneous into the heterogeneous, is that in which...
xxxi 페이지 - It will be seen that as in each event of to-day, so from the beginning, the decomposition of every expended force into several forces has been perpetually producing a higher complication; that the increase of heterogeneity so brought about is still going on and must continue to go on ; and that thus progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity.