Of Sovereignty and Saints

2021 ◽  
pp. 20-48
Author(s):  
Theodore M. Lechterman
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Fundamental Rights ◽  
Private Funding ◽  
Public Control ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Collective Control ◽  
Democratic Polity

The chapter considers what kinds of goods and services a democratic polity should furnish via donation. Donations are a well-known solution to the problem of “public goods,” goods with characteristics that prevent efficient market provision. But are all such goods equally appropriate objects of philanthropy? Common arguments fail to appreciate that part of democracy’s value lies in reserving certain decisions for collective control. Democracy, the chapter argues, makes citizens sovereign over the legislation and administration of matters of basic justice. Citizens’ interests in democratic sovereignty supply a strong reason to maintain public control over public goods that are intimately linked to fundamental rights, duties, and opportunities. The argument helps to justify and explain discomfort that many share about privately sponsored social assistance and private funding of public schools. It also indicates that philanthropy for goods more distant from basic justice—such as the arts, research, sport, and religion—may be easier to justify in democratic terms.

scholarly journals A New Era of Collaborative Government-Nonprofit Relations in the U.S.?

2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
John Casey
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Nonprofit Sector ◽  
New Era ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Policy Agendas ◽  
New Institutions ◽  
The U.S

The growth of the nonprofit sector in the last decades and its greater salience in the delivery of public goods and services has been accompanied by the development of new institutions and processes for managing the relations between nonprofits and governments. This article documents a number of recent initiatives to strengthen government-nonprofit relations in the U.S. and analyzes the policy agendas that are driving them.

scholarly journals Non–Institutional Federalism in Spain

2000 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 131-153
Author(s):  
Joan Rosselló Villalonga
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Public Expenditure ◽  
Present Situation ◽  
Static Model ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
Adequate Design ◽  
Regional Governments

Abstract Spain has advanced significantly regarding die assignment of responsibilities on public expenditure and tax powers across regional governments. However, regions do not participate significantly in the decentralization process. The lack of federal insitutions in which regions are represented motivates non-cooperative behaviours and fosters competition between all levels of government. The consequence is that the provision of public goods and services is rather inefficient.We illustrate our argument using a very simple static model with externalities in which the normative recommendation of decentralization does not guarantee the efficient provision of public goods. The adequate design of federal institutions would allow reducing such inefficiencies.Finally we try to identify die political characteristics of the Spanish regime that may explain the lack of institutional mechanisms of cooperation-coordination between governments. This type of analysis could be easily extended to the present situation in Italy.

Conclusion

2018 ◽  
pp. 121-138
Author(s):  
Keisha Lindsay
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Black Children ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Democratic Polity ◽  
The Face ◽  
History Of ◽  
Politics Of Resistance ◽  
Educational Advocacy ◽  
Barber Shops

Participants in the discourse on AMBS are best situated to assess their own and others’ experiential claims within a specific place and as part of a particular process of educational advocacy. The former is comprised of barber shops, laundromats, libraries, and other accessible, decentralized, community-based arenas that have a history of incubating anti-racist and other politics of resistance. The latter emphasizes the importance of public schools while challenging the quality of such schools available to black children. Such advocacy is ultimately successful when it abides by the two-fold norm that good public schools foster black self-determination in the face of intersecting oppression and also prepare black children of all genders to continually evaluate what life in a democratic polity looks like.

Art and Brand Contamination

2019 ◽  
pp. 339-354
Author(s):  
Marta Massi ◽  
Chiara Piancatelli ◽  
Sonia Pancheri
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
The Other ◽  
Brand Awareness ◽  
Arts Organizations ◽  
High Culture ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Low Culture ◽  
The One ◽  
Cross Fertilization

Albeit often perceived as two worlds apart, low culture and high culture are increasingly converging to collaborate in mutually advantageous ways. Brands—including the name, term, sign, symbol, or combination of them that identify the goods and services of a seller or group of sellers, and differentiate them from those of the competitors—are the new territory where high culture and low culture co-exist and collaborate, creating new possibilities of cross-fertilization and hybridization between the two. Through the analysis of successful examples coming from different industries, this chapter aims to highlight how brands have blurred the distinction between low culture and high culture. On the one hand, brands can use the heritage of the arts world to gain authenticity and legitimate themselves in the eyes of consumers and the society. On the other hand, artists and arts organizations, such as museums and other art institutions, can indulge in popular culture in order to become appealing to younger target markets and enhance their brand awareness and image.

Citizen Participation in Public Administration

2021 ◽  
pp. 72-93
Author(s):  
Veronika Linhartova
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
New Concepts ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Decision Making Processes

The aim of the chapter is to evaluate the citizens involvement in contemporary public administration, especially in the Czech Republic. New concepts of governance and management of public sector organizations enable providing new or improved public goods and services that better meet consumer´s needs. These concepts also represent reformed or new approaches to governance with increased citizen participation. Public administration responds to dynamic changes in information and communication technologies and their maturity and uses them in the framework of e-government. Thanks to the implementation of e-government, citizens have become more knowledgeable, able to participate in decision-making processes, thus automatically becoming co-producers of public goods or services. This approach to public good and service delivery describes modern public sector management theories as co-creation. Although co-creation is an entirely new concept in some countries, various forms of public participation are becoming increasingly important worldwide and can be expected to continue in the future.

Public–Private Partnership (PPP)

2019 ◽  
pp. 89-93
Author(s):  
Kuldeep Mathur
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Social Sector ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Social ◽  
Physical Infrastructure ◽  
Technical Proficiency ◽  
Governance Reforms

Among the more prominent initiative taken in governance reforms is that of forging public-private partnership both at policy as well as at administrative level. This chapter critically examines its rationale for delivering public goods and services. While accepting its promotion in physical infrastructure sector, where high levels of capital and technology are demanded, the author questions its relevance in the social sector, where distributive policies are an important part of implementation agenda. However, these partnerships are a continuation of the perspective of de-politicization, technical proficiency for increasing performance efficiency.

Democratic Federalism

2020 ◽  
pp. 99-138
Author(s):  
Robert P. Inman ◽  
Daniel L. Rubinfeld
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Economic Efficiency ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Majority Rule ◽  
National Government ◽  
Democratic Participation ◽  
Simple Majority ◽  
Simple Majority Rule ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
National Legislature

This chapter details the likely economic, democratic, and rights performance of a decentralized national legislature with representatives elected from geographically specified local districts. The national legislature is assigned responsibility for national public goods and services and national regulations. Decisions in the legislature are made by simple majority rule. Independent local governments continue to be responsible for important local services, perhaps provided concurrently with the national government. On the dimensions of democratic participation and the protection of rights and liberties, Democratic Federalism is likely to do well, provided all citizens are represented in the legislature. It is on the dimension of economic efficiency that legislature-only Democratic Federalism is most likely to fall short.

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