Jane A. Grant

The New American Social Compact (eBook, PDF)

Rights and Responsibilities in the Twenty-first Century

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The New American Social Compact examines the need to redefine the social compact in twenty-first-century America. Grant explores the two components of this compact-the rights and obligations of citizenship-as well as what she sees as the four substantive areas that are critical to realizing a new social compact in America. Grant proposes a new social compact that would honor the expansion of civil, political, and social rights in America and would integrate these rights within a new civic procedural ethos, clarifying our obligations to each other, future generations, other nations, and other species.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216316992
• Artikelnr.: 75141856

Autorenporträt

Jane Grant is associate professor in the Division of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1 Acknowledgments
Chapter 2 The American Social Compact: Past, Present, and Future
Considerations
Chapter 3 Components of the Compact: Social Security, Health Care, and the
Meaning of Social Rights
Chapter 4 Lesbian and Gay Equality: The Quest for Civil, Political, and
Social Rights
Chapter 5 A Sustainable Environment and Responsible Economy: Obligations to
Other Persons, Future Generations, Other Nations, and Other Species
Chapter 6 Co-operation and Global Security: Frameworks and Responsibilities
in an Interconnected World
Chapter 7 The New American Social Compact: The Role of Democratic
Deliberation, Social and Political Movements, and Ethical and Accountable
Leaders