Entitlement Politics

Author : Steven G. Ogden
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000451585
Total Pages : 108 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Violence, Entitlement, and Politics written by Steven G. Ogden and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-09-30 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an exercise in political theology, exploring the problem of gender- based violence by focusing on violent male subjects and the issue of entitlement. It addresses gender-based violence in familial and military settings before engaging with a wider political context. The chapters draw on sources ranging from Michel Foucault, Judith Butler, and Étienne Balibar to Rowan Williams and Elisabeth Schüssler Fiorenza. Entitlement is theorized and interpreted as a gender pattern, predisposing subjects towards controlling behaviour and/or violent actions. Steven Ogden develops a theology of transformation, stressing immanence. He examines entitled subjects, predisposed to violence, where transformation requires a limit-experience that wrenches the subject from itself. The book then reflects on today’s pervasive strongman politics, where political rationalities foster proprietorial thinking and entitlement gender patterns, and how theology is called to develop counter-discourses and counter-practices.

Author : Nicholas Eberstadt
Publisher : Templeton Foundation Press
ISBN 13 : 1599474360
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Nation of Takers written by Nicholas Eberstadt and published by Templeton Foundation Press. This book was released on 2012-10-10 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Nation of Takers: America’s Entitlement Epidemic, one of our country’s foremost demographers, Nicholas Eberstadt, details the exponential growth in entitlement spending over the past fifty years. As he notes, in 1960, entitlement payments accounted for well under a third of the federal government’s total outlays. Today, entitlement spending accounts for a full two-thirds of the federal budget. Drawing on an impressive array of data and employing a range of easy-to-read, four-color charts, Eberstadt shows the unchecked spiral of spending on a range of entitlements, everything from Medicare to disability payments. But Eberstadt does not just chart the astonishing growth of entitlement spending, he also details the enormous economic and cultural costs of this epidemic. He powerfully argues that while this spending certainly drains our federal coffers, it also has a very real, long-lasting, negative impact on the character of our citizens. Also included in the book is a response from one of our leading political theorists, William Galston. In his incisive response, he questions Eberstadt’s conclusions about the corrosive effect of entitlements on character and offers his own analysis of the impact of American entitlement growth.

Author : Christopher Caldwell
Publisher : Simon & Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1501106910
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Age of Entitlement written by Christopher Caldwell and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2021-01-05 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A major American intellectual and “one of the right’s most gifted and astute journalists” (The New York Times Book Review) makes the historical case that the reforms of the 1960s, reforms intended to make the nation more just and humane, left many Americans feeling alienated, despised, misled—and ready to put an adventurer in the White House. Christopher Caldwell has spent years studying the liberal uprising of the 1960s and its unforeseen consequences and his conclusion is this: even the reforms that Americans love best have come with costs that are staggeringly high—in wealth, freedom, and social stability—and that have been spread unevenly among classes and generations. Caldwell reveals the real political turning points of the past half-century, taking you on a roller-coaster ride through Playboy magazine, affirmative action, CB radio, leveraged buyouts, iPhones, Oxycotin, Black Lives Matter, and internet cookies. In doing so, he shows that attempts to redress the injustices of the past have left Americans living under two different ideas of what it means to play by the rules. Essential, timely, hard to put down, The Age of Entitlement “is an eloquent and bracing book, full of insight” (New York magazine) about how the reforms of the past fifty years gave the country two incompatible political systems—and drove it toward conflict.

Author : John Brigham
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780877227151
Total Pages : 223 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Property and the Politics of Entitlement written by John Brigham and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents a case for constitutional protection of entitlements as property. This book argues that the legal definition of property is based on expectations founded on positive law, which may or may not be related to the Lockean notion that labor creates property.

Author : Lawrence M. Mead
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439119570
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Entitlement written by Lawrence M. Mead and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2008-06-30 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mead's timely and closely reasoned analysis makes a strong intellectual and moral case for a more authoritative welfare policy.

Author : David G. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351328026
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Entitlement Politics written by David G. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Entitlement Politics describes partisan attempts to shrink the size of government by targeting two major federal health care entitlements. Efforts to restructure or eliminate entitlements as such, and to privatize and decentralize programs, along with more traditional attempts to amend and reform Medicare and Medicaid have radically transformed policymaking with respect to these programs. However, they have failed to achieve fundamental or lasting reform.Smith combines historical narrative and case studies with descriptions of the technical aspects and dynamics of policymaking to help the consumer understand how the process has changed, evaluate particular policies and outcomes, and anticipate future possibilities. His account intentionally goes at some length into the substance of the programs, the policies that are involved, and the views of different protagonists about the major issues in the dispute.One unhealthy consequence of politicizing Medicare and Medicaid policy has been to separate public debate from the technical and organizational realities underlying issues of cost containment or program structure. Smith considers this development unfortunate, since it leaves even informed citizens unable to evaluate the claims being made. Ironically, strife over Medicare has complicated the political and policy issues in American life. Only a serious and genuine bipartisan effort bringing forth the best efforts of both political parties--and some of the best industry leaders and policy experts in the field--is likely to achieve genuine reform. The more people and parties know about the history, politics, and policies of these programs, the better our prospects for devising workable, equitable, and lasting solutions. This volume leads the way toward that understanding.

Author : Lawrence M. Mead
Publisher : New York : Free Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Beyond Entitlement written by Lawrence M. Mead and published by New York : Free Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the effects of social welfare policies and argues that the poor should be entitled to benefits only if they fulfill the responsibilities of citizenship.

Author : Gareth Davies
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Opportunity to Entitlement written by Gareth Davies and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That shift, Davies argues, was part of a broader transformation in political values that had devastating consequences for the Democratic Party in particular and for the cause of liberalism generally.

Author : James Cairns
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 1442636378
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Myth of the Age of Entitlement written by James Cairns and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2017-07-28 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Myth of the Age of Entitlement, Cairns peels back the layers of the entitlement myth, exposing its faults and arguing that the majority of millennials are actually disentitled, facing bleak economic prospects and potential ecological disaster.

Author : Michael Gendre
Publisher : UPA
ISBN 13 : 0761867244
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Aligning Values and Politics written by Michael Gendre and published by UPA. This book was released on 2016-03-02 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aligning Values and Politics argues that empowering individuals for self-actualization is an indispensable tool for attaining freedom; therefore, politics must align with the promotion of self-actualization. Private property rights have in the past helped people to develop skills, but such rights were abused. Once these rights are combined with an ethics of responsibility, the book opens the doors to a nonpartisan analysis of income inequality, inheritance, race relations, abortion and governance. The book argues that the American government is engaged in producing “bread and circuses,” inducing people into living vicariously. Using the ideas of Immanuel Kant, the authors claim that we can return to a civil society that values independence rather than entitlements.