Arguments for a Duty to Vote

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jason Brennan
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Moral Virtue ◽  
Civic Virtue ◽  
Hard Work ◽  
The Public ◽  
Free Ride ◽  
Causal Responsibility ◽  
Good Government

This chapter outlines three arguments on behalf of a duty to vote: the Agency Argument, the Public Goods Argument, and the Civic Virtue Argument. The Agency Argument held that citizens should bear some causal responsibility in helping to produce and maintain a just social order with adequate levels of welfare. The Agency Argument asserts that voting is necessary to do this. The Public Goods Argument holds that nonvoters unfairly free-ride on the provision of good governance. Failing to vote is like failing to pay taxes—it places a differential burden on others who do the hard work of providing good government. Meanwhile, the Civic Virtue Argument holds that voting is an essential way to exercise civic virtue, and civic virtue is an important moral virtue.

A Case for Private Provision but Collective Ownership of Public Goods

1998 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 90-94 ◽  
Author(s):  
William D. Gerdes
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Private Provision ◽  
The Public ◽  
Collective Ownership ◽  
Free Ride ◽  
Voluntary Exchange

One strategy for generating Pareto results in a public good model is to create an environment where traders internalize the public good externality. The model presented here accomplishes this by separating the provision and ownership of public goods. Such goods are privately provided but collectively owned. Under this arrangement, Lindahl prices are generated through the voluntary exchange activities of consumers. Persistent attempts to free ride are not consistent with maximizing behavior which leads to internalization.

scholarly journals An Existence of State Administration Court in Establishing Good Governance

2019 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ruslin Ruslin
Keyword(s):  
Good Governance ◽  
Legal Protection ◽  
The State ◽  
Law Enforcement Agencies ◽  
Judicial Control ◽  
The Public ◽  
Administrative Functions ◽  
State Administration ◽  
Good Government ◽  
Executive Agencies

Administration officials have broad authority in carrying out the affair of government. With this broad authority tends to be misused to cause harm and injustice in the society, therefore there must be other institutions that control it. Based on the theory of Trigs Politico executive agencies are politically controlled by the legislative and juridical institutions controlled by the judiciary, because the officials running the state administration executive functions that control the judiciary is legally the state administrative court. Judicial control of administrative functions of the state administrative court in addition aims to provide legal protection for the public and state administration officials themselves, as well as state administrative law enforcement agencies who aspire to realize a good and authoritative government. Keywords: Good government, State administration court

Social Contract, Free Ride: A Study of the Public Goods Problem.

1989 ◽  
Vol 99 (397) ◽  
pp. 878 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Bonner ◽  
Anthony de Jasay
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
The Public ◽  
Free Ride

scholarly journals Communication Strategies in Providing Good Government Education Through Social Media: A Case Study at the Parliament of the Republic of Indonesia

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 722-734
Author(s):  
Anindya Larasati, Achmad Jamil, Rizki Briandana
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Communication Strategies ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Education ◽  
Good Government ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Depth Interviews

Objective: To analyze the communication strategy of the parliament of the Republic of Indonesia in providing good government education through social media.Methods: Case studies are used as a method in this research, and data collection techniques using in-depth interviews. The basis for selecting informants used a purposive technique by looking at the criteria for informants.Results:The results showed that the communication strategy implemented by the DPR-RI has shown success in educating the public regarding good govenment. The strategy of the parliament's news bureau to absorb the information needed by the public regarding the performance of the parliament is an important key to success.Conclusion: The good governance through Instagram social media was very effective in publishing the performance of leaders and members of the parliament.

Justice, or On Statesmanship

2020 ◽  
pp. 116-147
Author(s):  
Ryan Patrick Hanley
Keyword(s):  
Political Institutions ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Moral Virtue ◽  
The Self ◽  
Self Control ◽  
Political Function ◽  
Good Government ◽  
Self Rule ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship

Chapter 4 examines Fenelon’s ideas on statesmanship. Focusing on his views on the relationship of moral virtue to political virtue, it emphasizes his core teaching that good governance of others begins with good government of the self. Yet the self-rule and self-control that Fénelon asks of political leaders is distinct from the renunciation and “annihilation” of the self central to his spirituality of pure love. Good rulers, he argues, need to cultivate both mastery of pernicious pleasures and openness to true pleasures, as each disposition has a crucial political function. To show this, the chapter begins with Fénelon’s distinction between true pleasure and false pleasure, and then shows how this distinction shapes his lessons on how a ruler ought to be disposed toward ministers and counselors. The chapter concludes by examining Fénelon’s understanding of the practical political institutions most necessary for justice in the state.

scholarly journals Assessing ‘good governance’:‘scientific’ measurement and political discourse

2014 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Gregory
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Public Goods ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Political Discourse ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
The Public ◽  
Goods And Services ◽  
The Past ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
State Authority

The idea of governance – as distinct from government – has become intellectually fashionable in academic circles over the past decade or so, constituting a new conceptual paradigm that embodies ideas about the dispersal and fragmentation of formerly centralised state authority, the increasing involvement of civil society in the delivery of public goods and services, and the networked collaboration of a wide range of governmental and nongovernmental bodies in the pursuit of public purposes and the public interest.

scholarly journals To free ride or not to free ride? Role of patterning and feedback in the public goods game

2004 ◽  
Vol 3 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 84-106
Author(s):  
Ananish Chaudhuri ◽  
DeeDee Chen ◽  
Sara Graziano ◽  
Frances McIntire ◽  
Dawn Winkler
Keyword(s):  
Public Goods ◽  
Public Goods Game ◽  
The Public ◽  
Free Ride

scholarly journals Local values of Buginese Culture in the practice of government organizations in Sinjai

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 164
Author(s):  
Andi Lukman Irwan ◽  
Hamka Naping ◽  
Andi Ahmad Yani ◽  
Muhammad Kamil Jafar Nassa
Keyword(s):  
Public Administration ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Government Organization ◽  
The Public ◽  
Government Organizations ◽  
The Past ◽  
One Stop ◽  
The Government

This article aims to analyze the internalization of local values of Bugis culture in the practice of government organizations, as well as the implications of these local values for the public service system. This study uses qualitative research methods, with data collection using observations, interviews, and tracking of related documents. The research location was in the government organization of the Department of Investment and One-Stop Service (Dinas Pelayanan Modal dan Pelayanan Satu Pintu - DPMPS) of Sinjai Regency. The results show that there is an internalization of local values; (1) 'lempu' (honest), (2) 'amaccang' (intelligence), (3) 'astinajang' (propriety), (4) aggatenggeng (firmness), (5) sipakatau and sipakainge, and (6) ajjoareng which have existed since the past and considered to be synergized in the principles of service and apply in the culture of the community that supports the implementation of public services. Then, adopting local values is in line with the principles of good governance namely transparency, accountability and legal certainty. In addition, public administration indicators are oriented to the benefits and effectiveness in achieving goals and as a study of governance and social order.

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