Norman Kirby
Biographic Data
| ID | 1233612 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Norman Kirby |
| GIVEN NAMES | Norman |
| FAMILY NAME | Kirby |
| SIGNATURE | KIRBY N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Glasgow |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5759-9112 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 12 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1951 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Reclaiming the Public
What is social trust
What is social trust? Social trust is an important concept in social science, yet there is little consensus as to its meaning. This paper develops a definition by means of five claims. First, that social trust is not a belief but a supposition; second, that social trust is with respect to obligations not good intentions, or other social norms; third, that social trust is a generalisation about others in the relevant society rather than an aggrega…
Good Governance
Is there an ideal for how government agents, specifically those within the executive branch, should exercise public power? Over the last 40 years, development practitioners, political scientists, economists, public administrators, and public lawyers have sought to define such an ideal qua good governance. Yet despite these normative ambitions, few political philosophers have been party to the debate. This article aims to redress such neglect. It …
The Problem of Basic Equality
This paper offers a targeted five-point critique of the current debate about the problem of basic equality. First, it argues that the debate should be refocussed away from any particular concept(ion) of basic equality to a more agnostic proposition about the possibility of establishing equality in any basic moral property. Second, it re-articulates the problem in terms of grounding relations rather than supervenience. Third, it argues that propon…
Unjust Shadows
No abstract available
The Institutional Laundry
A number of recent authors have argued for the problem of ‘democratic dirty hands’. At least within a democracy, public officers can be rightly said to act in the name of the public; and thus, as agents to principals, the dirty hands of public officers are, ultimately attributable to that public. Even more troubling, so the argument goes, since dirty hands are necessary for public officers in any stable political order, then such democratic dirty…
Institutional Integrity
An ‘Institution-First’ Conception of Public Integrity
There is an emerging drive to define a new praiseworthy governance goal: a goal that not only implies addressing corruption but going further to establish institutions that are truly worthy of trust. That goal is ‘public integrity’. However, most current accounts of public integrity adopt an ‘officer-first’ approach: defining public integrity primarily as a quality of individual public officers, and only derivatively, if at all, as a quality of p…
Good governance
The legislature and the judiciary have been a constant focus of contemporary political philosophy. However, the executive - 'the government'itself - has been comparatively neglected. Today, this is changing with a well-spring of new work that bears upon what we might call the ideal of 'good governance', that is, how governments (and/or their agents) should exercise their powers. This review paper begins by clarifying the concepts of 'governance' …
Two Concepts of Basic Equality
It has become somewhat a commonplace in recent political philosophy to remark that all plausible political theories must share at least one fundamental premise, ‘that all humans are one another's equals’. One single concept of ‘basic equality’, therefore, is cast as the common touchstone of all contemporary political thought. This paper argues that this claim is false. Virtually all do indeed say that all humans are ‘equals’ in some basic sense. …
Revising Republican Liberty
Must Night Fall
Journal Article Must Night Fall? Get access Ursula Branston Ursula Branston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 27, Issue 3, July 1951, Page 410, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/27.3.410b Published: 01 July 1951
An ‘Institution-First’ Conception of Public Integrity
There is an emerging drive to define a new praiseworthy governance goal: a goal that not only implies addressing corruption but going further to establish institutions that are truly worthy of trust. That goal is ‘public integrity’. However, most current accounts of public integrity adopt an ‘officer-first’ approach: defining public integrity primarily as a quality of individual public officers, and only derivatively, if at all, as a quality of p…
Unjust Shadows
No abstract available
Two Concepts of Basic Equality
It has become somewhat a commonplace in recent political philosophy to remark that all plausible political theories must share at least one fundamental premise, ‘that all humans are one another's equals’. One single concept of ‘basic equality’, therefore, is cast as the common touchstone of all contemporary political thought. This paper argues that this claim is false. Virtually all do indeed say that all humans are ‘equals’ in some basic sense. …
Good Governance
Is there an ideal for how government agents, specifically those within the executive branch, should exercise public power? Over the last 40 years, development practitioners, political scientists, economists, public administrators, and public lawyers have sought to define such an ideal qua good governance. Yet despite these normative ambitions, few political philosophers have been party to the debate. This article aims to redress such neglect. It …
Good governance
The legislature and the judiciary have been a constant focus of contemporary political philosophy. However, the executive - 'the government'itself - has been comparatively neglected. Today, this is changing with a well-spring of new work that bears upon what we might call the ideal of 'good governance', that is, how governments (and/or their agents) should exercise their powers. This review paper begins by clarifying the concepts of 'governance' …
Revising Republican Liberty
Must Night Fall
Journal Article Must Night Fall? Get access Ursula Branston Ursula Branston Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 27, Issue 3, July 1951, Page 410, https://doi.org/10.1093/ia/27.3.410b Published: 01 July 1951
Revising Republican Liberty
Two Concepts of Basic Equality
It has become somewhat a commonplace in recent political philosophy to remark that all plausible political theories must share at least one fundamental premise, ‘that all humans are one another's equals’. One single concept of ‘basic equality’, therefore, is cast as the common touchstone of all contemporary political thought. This paper argues that this claim is false. Virtually all do indeed say that all humans are ‘equals’ in some basic sense. …
An ‘Institution-First’ Conception of Public Integrity
There is an emerging drive to define a new praiseworthy governance goal: a goal that not only implies addressing corruption but going further to establish institutions that are truly worthy of trust. That goal is ‘public integrity’. However, most current accounts of public integrity adopt an ‘officer-first’ approach: defining public integrity primarily as a quality of individual public officers, and only derivatively, if at all, as a quality of p…
Good governance
The legislature and the judiciary have been a constant focus of contemporary political philosophy. However, the executive - 'the government'itself - has been comparatively neglected. Today, this is changing with a well-spring of new work that bears upon what we might call the ideal of 'good governance', that is, how governments (and/or their agents) should exercise their powers. This review paper begins by clarifying the concepts of 'governance' …
Institutional Integrity
The Institutional Laundry
A number of recent authors have argued for the problem of ‘democratic dirty hands’. At least within a democracy, public officers can be rightly said to act in the name of the public; and thus, as agents to principals, the dirty hands of public officers are, ultimately attributable to that public. Even more troubling, so the argument goes, since dirty hands are necessary for public officers in any stable political order, then such democratic dirty…
The Problem of Basic Equality
This paper offers a targeted five-point critique of the current debate about the problem of basic equality. First, it argues that the debate should be refocussed away from any particular concept(ion) of basic equality to a more agnostic proposition about the possibility of establishing equality in any basic moral property. Second, it re-articulates the problem in terms of grounding relations rather than supervenience. Third, it argues that propon…
Unjust Shadows
No abstract available
Reclaiming the Public
What is social trust
What is social trust? Social trust is an important concept in social science, yet there is little consensus as to its meaning. This paper develops a definition by means of five claims. First, that social trust is not a belief but a supposition; second, that social trust is with respect to obligations not good intentions, or other social norms; third, that social trust is a generalisation about others in the relevant society rather than an aggrega…
Good Governance
Is there an ideal for how government agents, specifically those within the executive branch, should exercise public power? Over the last 40 years, development practitioners, political scientists, economists, public administrators, and public lawyers have sought to define such an ideal qua good governance. Yet despite these normative ambitions, few political philosophers have been party to the debate. This article aims to redress such neglect. It …
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