Jeffrey Obler
Biographic Data
| ID | 1045699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey Obler |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Obler |
| SIGNATURE | OBLER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1986 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Defending the Welfare State
An ethical defense of the welfare state may, as Robert E. Goodin has argued, adumbrate the notion that responsibility to provide for “needy strangers” flows from the same source as family responsibility. But this view of the moral responsibility for protecting vulnerable people is open to challenge. In this Controversy, Jeffrey Obler takes issue on this point, and Goodin replies
Generosity, Duty & the Welfare State
Welfare programs for the poor may be justified in terms of compassion for the downtrodden or on the basis of a moral duty to help them. American liberalism since the New Deal has rejected the notion of welfare as charity and, instead, assumes that Americans accept a moral duty to help the poor. Professor Obler suggests that this assumption is probably incorrect, and that liberal efforts to generate support for welfare programs have therefore been…
Moral Duty and the Welfare State
AID to Families with Dependent Children, Food Stamps, and Medicaid are among the programs in the American welfare system that are intended primarily to help the poor. These programs have been most adversely affected by President Reagan's efforts to spending. They have been so vulnerable, in part, because the poor who benefit from them do not form a large enough voting bloc to protect their interests. Such programs ultimately must rely on the supp…
Legislatures and the Survival of Political Systems: A Review Article
Fear, Prohibition, and Liberty
UT THE HEART OF Robert Nozick's effort to create and defend a minimal state is his commitment to the protection of individuals' rights. He cajoles the anarchists to abandon the state of nature by showing that a minimal state can be formed without trampling on anyone's rights. He then argues that any attempt to extend the minimal state to achieve distributive justice must be rejected because it necessarily violates people's rights. But this commit…
Private Giving in the Welfare State
If the welfare state embodies a collective obligation to give to those in need, it also attests to the failure of individual, private giving, which from the advent of industrialization has been far too modest and capricious to care adequately for the sick and indigent. Private, individual giving simply cannot compete with state help when it comes to guaranteeing people's welfare. But its failure to do a job better handled by the state does not me…
Nations and States. An Enquiry into the Origins of Nations and the Politics of Nationalism. Hugh Seton-Watson
The Odd Compartmentalization: Public Opinion, Aggregate Data, and Policy Analysis
This article examines some of the assumptions that underlie the use of aggregate data for policy analysis, In particular, it explores the consequences of the assumption of antagonistic attitudes between “haves” and “have nots” on social welfare policies. Use of public opinion data demonstrates the low salience of regressiveness of taxation and thereby calls into question the validity of a common indice in aggregate analysis. The use of this and r…
Belgium and Europe: A Study in Small Power Diplomacy, by Jonathan E. Helmreich
Intraparty Democracy and the Selection of Parliamentary Candidates: The Belgian Case
Leaders and activists in most Western political parties, appreciating Schattschneider's adage1 that parties are controlled by those who control nominations to public offices, jealously guard their right to choose parliamentary candidates. They realize that candidates play a crucial role in shaping voters’ images of the parties as well as in formulating the party policies. Not surprisingly, candidates are usually recruited through rather oligarchi…
The Role of National Party Leaders in the Selection of Parliamentary Candidates: The Belgian Case
Technology and politics
Intraparty Democracy and the Selection of Parliamentary Candidates: The Belgian Case
Leaders and activists in most Western political parties, appreciating Schattschneider's adage1 that parties are controlled by those who control nominations to public offices, jealously guard their right to choose parliamentary candidates. They realize that candidates play a crucial role in shaping voters’ images of the parties as well as in formulating the party policies. Not surprisingly, candidates are usually recruited through rather oligarchi…
Private Giving in the Welfare State
If the welfare state embodies a collective obligation to give to those in need, it also attests to the failure of individual, private giving, which from the advent of industrialization has been far too modest and capricious to care adequately for the sick and indigent. Private, individual giving simply cannot compete with state help when it comes to guaranteeing people's welfare. But its failure to do a job better handled by the state does not me…
The Role of National Party Leaders in the Selection of Parliamentary Candidates: The Belgian Case
Belgium and Europe: A Study in Small Power Diplomacy, by Jonathan E. Helmreich
Generosity, Duty & the Welfare State
Welfare programs for the poor may be justified in terms of compassion for the downtrodden or on the basis of a moral duty to help them. American liberalism since the New Deal has rejected the notion of welfare as charity and, instead, assumes that Americans accept a moral duty to help the poor. Professor Obler suggests that this assumption is probably incorrect, and that liberal efforts to generate support for welfare programs have therefore been…
Moral Duty and the Welfare State
AID to Families with Dependent Children, Food Stamps, and Medicaid are among the programs in the American welfare system that are intended primarily to help the poor. These programs have been most adversely affected by President Reagan's efforts to spending. They have been so vulnerable, in part, because the poor who benefit from them do not form a large enough voting bloc to protect their interests. Such programs ultimately must rely on the supp…
Fear, Prohibition, and Liberty
UT THE HEART OF Robert Nozick's effort to create and defend a minimal state is his commitment to the protection of individuals' rights. He cajoles the anarchists to abandon the state of nature by showing that a minimal state can be formed without trampling on anyone's rights. He then argues that any attempt to extend the minimal state to achieve distributive justice must be rejected because it necessarily violates people's rights. But this commit…
Technology and politics
The Role of National Party Leaders in the Selection of Parliamentary Candidates: The Belgian Case
Intraparty Democracy and the Selection of Parliamentary Candidates: The Belgian Case
Leaders and activists in most Western political parties, appreciating Schattschneider's adage1 that parties are controlled by those who control nominations to public offices, jealously guard their right to choose parliamentary candidates. They realize that candidates play a crucial role in shaping voters’ images of the parties as well as in formulating the party policies. Not surprisingly, candidates are usually recruited through rather oligarchi…
Belgium and Europe: A Study in Small Power Diplomacy, by Jonathan E. Helmreich
Nations and States. An Enquiry into the Origins of Nations and the Politics of Nationalism. Hugh Seton-Watson
The Odd Compartmentalization: Public Opinion, Aggregate Data, and Policy Analysis
This article examines some of the assumptions that underlie the use of aggregate data for policy analysis, In particular, it explores the consequences of the assumption of antagonistic attitudes between “haves” and “have nots” on social welfare policies. Use of public opinion data demonstrates the low salience of regressiveness of taxation and thereby calls into question the validity of a common indice in aggregate analysis. The use of this and r…
Legislatures and the Survival of Political Systems: A Review Article
Fear, Prohibition, and Liberty
UT THE HEART OF Robert Nozick's effort to create and defend a minimal state is his commitment to the protection of individuals' rights. He cajoles the anarchists to abandon the state of nature by showing that a minimal state can be formed without trampling on anyone's rights. He then argues that any attempt to extend the minimal state to achieve distributive justice must be rejected because it necessarily violates people's rights. But this commit…
Private Giving in the Welfare State
If the welfare state embodies a collective obligation to give to those in need, it also attests to the failure of individual, private giving, which from the advent of industrialization has been far too modest and capricious to care adequately for the sick and indigent. Private, individual giving simply cannot compete with state help when it comes to guaranteeing people's welfare. But its failure to do a job better handled by the state does not me…
Defending the Welfare State
An ethical defense of the welfare state may, as Robert E. Goodin has argued, adumbrate the notion that responsibility to provide for “needy strangers” flows from the same source as family responsibility. But this view of the moral responsibility for protecting vulnerable people is open to challenge. In this Controversy, Jeffrey Obler takes issue on this point, and Goodin replies
Generosity, Duty & the Welfare State
Welfare programs for the poor may be justified in terms of compassion for the downtrodden or on the basis of a moral duty to help them. American liberalism since the New Deal has rejected the notion of welfare as charity and, instead, assumes that Americans accept a moral duty to help the poor. Professor Obler suggests that this assumption is probably incorrect, and that liberal efforts to generate support for welfare programs have therefore been…
Moral Duty and the Welfare State
AID to Families with Dependent Children, Food Stamps, and Medicaid are among the programs in the American welfare system that are intended primarily to help the poor. These programs have been most adversely affected by President Reagan's efforts to spending. They have been so vulnerable, in part, because the poor who benefit from them do not form a large enough voting bloc to protect their interests. Such programs ultimately must rely on the supp…
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