Audrey Stark
Biographic Data
| ID | 284744 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Audrey Stark |
| GIVEN NAMES | Audrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Stark |
| SIGNATURE | STARK A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7634-0026 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 42 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Our “Cognitive Limitations” and the Hard Problem of Consciousness
Philosophers have conjectured that human cognitive limitations might preclude our ever resolving the hard problem of consciousness. Few, however, have offered suggestions as to what it might be about our conceptual apparatus that poses the problem. I do so in this essay, arguing that our central difficulties lie with two conceptual categories that pervade philosophical discussion of the hard problem. They are compositional concepts -- part/whole,…
The unwilling foils of the political right: The cultural elite in Swedish and Norwegian newspapers
Using classic elite understandings as our point of departure, we specify the constituent elements and repertoires of the cultural elite as these are described in Swedish and Norwegian newspapers. Through qualitative and quantitative content analyses, we contextualize and compare the cultural elite through five occupational categories and five main themes, and we ask how these characterizations affect the role this elite plays in politics. Also, w…
Value, Externalities, and the Boundaries of the Market
Bridges between Wedges and Frames: Outreach and Compromise in American Political Discourse
Wedges and frames, two much-studied strategies of American political combat, are generally thought to be partisan weapons, meant to manipulate voters into making trade-offs that favor the political actor wielding them. My inquiry here explores whether there exists anything comparably schematic to wedges and frames at work in attempts by American politicians not to polarize but to find consensus, not to cater to extremes but moderate them. Despite…
Principal–Agent Analyses And Management Accounting
The work on optimal contracting and use of information within a principal–agent framework and management accounting and control settings is voluminous.
Global Justice, Historical Justice: Looking at the Two Debates in Tandem
The debates over global and historical justice much preoccupy contemporary political theory. Yet they have not been analyzed in tandem. And this, despite the fact that a number of theoretical frameworks, principal among them contractarianism and utilitarianism, configure arguments in both debates. In this essay, I show that such arguments, as advanced by either side in each of the two debates, all rest on a set of patterned assumptions about the …
The Distinction between Public, Nonprofit, and For-Profit: Revisiting the "Core Legal" Approach
In studying the characteristics that determine the public, nonprofit, and/or for-profit nature of organizations, public administration scholarship has elaborated upon the "dimensional" approach (e.g., Bozeman, Barry. 2007. Public values and public interest: Counterbalancing economic individualism. Washington, DC: Georgetown Univ. Press), to the point where it is now furnishing a rich body of theoretical and empirical material on organizational id…
The Consensus School, Its Critics, and Welfare Policy: A Study of American Political Discourse
In the debate between the “consensus” school of American politics and its various critics, all participants have shown themselves capable of shedding light on different historical periods or particular political conflicts; and, of course, given the complexity of public discourse, many American political controversies lend themselves to elucidation by more than one of them. This paper's purpose is to suggest yet a further way of interpreting Ameri…
Benefit versus Numbers versus Helping the Worst-off: An Alternative to the Prevalent Approach to the Just Distribution of Resources
A central strand in philosophical debate over the just distribution of resources attempts to juggle three competing imperatives: helping those who are worst off, helping those who will benefit the most, and then – beyond this – determining when to aggregate such ‘worst off’ and ‘benefit’ claims, and when instead to treat no such claim as greater than that which any individual by herself can exert. Yet as various philosophers have observed, ‘we ha…
The double irony of health-insurance regulation
Beyond Choice: Rethinking the Post-rawlsian Debate over Egalitarian Justice
Revision du debat politique sur la justice opposant l'egalitarisme des ressources et l'egalitarisme du bien-etre. Au-dela de la polemique post-rawlsienne sur la metaphysique du choix individuel, l'A. defend la possibilite d'une troisieme voie fondee sur la construction sociale des biens
What Is the New Public Management
True, there is a defined (if unwieldly) set of ideas that usually gets conjured up whenever NPM is the topic of discussion: competition between public and private service providers; decentralization and delayering of government bureaus; more choice for citizens; benchmarking and output measurements; performance contracts and other financial incentives for public servants; creation of inter-nal markets; and assimilation; within the public sector, …
Why Political Scientists Aren't Public Intellectuals
In a New Republic cover story published three years ago entitled “Irrational Exuberance: When Did Political Science Forget about Politics?” the journalist Jonathan Cohn (1999) lamented the disappearance of a certain kind of academic—typified by the Harvard professors James Q. Wilson, Samuel Huntington and Stanley Hoffmann—from contemporary political science departments. Wilson “was more than just a scholar,” Cohn wrote, “he was a public intellect…
Limousine Liberals, Welfare Conservatives: On Belief, Interest, and Inconsistency in Democratic Discourse
Soulevant la question de la sincerite et de l'hypocrise des acteurs politiques dans le discours democratique, l'A. mesure l'inconsistance entre la position politique de l'individu et certains traits de son identite personnelle, dans le discours public americain. Opposant la figure du liberal-limousine a celle du conservateur-club de campagne, l'A. montre que la poursuite de l'interet public peut etre entravee par des traits de caractere personnel…
Beyond Quid Pro Quo: What's Wrong with Private Gain from Public Office
The longstanding debate over whether officials should be permitted to profit personally from public office has moved to the center of public discourse in the United States. As the HouseEthics Manualput it recently, it is of concern simply when an officeholder "cash[es] in on official position," regardless of whether his or her official performance was in any way impaired as a result. Although the question of private gain from public office is ric…
Public Sector Conflict of Interest at the Federal Level in Canada and the U. S: Differences in Understanding and Approach
found in Canada. In the course of his illuminating study of comparative issues in French and American public administration, John Rohr (1991) observes that comparative questions have been somewhat neglected in the last two decades of public-administration-ethics literature. More specifically, Rohr calls for government-ethics scholars to undertake research in which ethical standards in administration are not simply juxtaposed...on a nation-by-nati…
Policy Making and the Demonstration Effect: Privatization in a Deprived Region
The aims of public policies are not always clearly articulated by ministers. Further the aims that are stated may not reflect all – or indeed the most important – aims. In some cases declared policy aims bear little relationship to the real intentions of ministers in undertaking an initiative. In other cases policy decisions are intended as symbolic statements, demonstrating government attitudes on a range of issues beyond the specific matter und…
Political-Discourse” Analysis and the Debate Over Canada's Lobbying Legislation
Recently, students of public policy making in North America have added the analysis of “political discourse” to the tools of their trade. According to the “political discourse” school, the extent to which policy ideas gain acceptability cannot always be explained rationally in terms of their logical or empirical validity, nor instrumentally in terms of the interests they serve. Often, their careers must be accounted for, at least in part, by a de…
Corporate Electoral Activity, Constitutional Discourse, and Conceptions of the Individual
Recently, constitutional scholars have begun exploring how far constitutional discourse is governed by competing liberal and republican conceptions of the just or the good society. At the same time, political theorists have placed in doubt how far this debate rests on the metaphysical dichotomy between a radically autonomous and a radically encumbered individual. Scholars, however, have yet to investigate to what extent metaphysical conceptions o…
What Is the New Public Management
True, there is a defined (if unwieldly) set of ideas that usually gets conjured up whenever NPM is the topic of discussion: competition between public and private service providers; decentralization and delayering of government bureaus; more choice for citizens; benchmarking and output measurements; performance contracts and other financial incentives for public servants; creation of inter-nal markets; and assimilation; within the public sector, …
The Distinction between Public, Nonprofit, and For-Profit: Revisiting the "Core Legal" Approach
In studying the characteristics that determine the public, nonprofit, and/or for-profit nature of organizations, public administration scholarship has elaborated upon the "dimensional" approach (e.g., Bozeman, Barry. 2007. Public values and public interest: Counterbalancing economic individualism. Washington, DC: Georgetown Univ. Press), to the point where it is now furnishing a rich body of theoretical and empirical material on organizational id…
Beyond Quid Pro Quo: What's Wrong with Private Gain from Public Office
The longstanding debate over whether officials should be permitted to profit personally from public office has moved to the center of public discourse in the United States. As the HouseEthics Manualput it recently, it is of concern simply when an officeholder "cash[es] in on official position," regardless of whether his or her official performance was in any way impaired as a result. Although the question of private gain from public office is ric…
Political-Discourse” Analysis and the Debate Over Canada's Lobbying Legislation
Recently, students of public policy making in North America have added the analysis of “political discourse” to the tools of their trade. According to the “political discourse” school, the extent to which policy ideas gain acceptability cannot always be explained rationally in terms of their logical or empirical validity, nor instrumentally in terms of the interests they serve. Often, their careers must be accounted for, at least in part, by a de…
The unwilling foils of the political right: The cultural elite in Swedish and Norwegian newspapers
Using classic elite understandings as our point of departure, we specify the constituent elements and repertoires of the cultural elite as these are described in Swedish and Norwegian newspapers. Through qualitative and quantitative content analyses, we contextualize and compare the cultural elite through five occupational categories and five main themes, and we ask how these characterizations affect the role this elite plays in politics. Also, w…
Public Sector Conflict of Interest at the Federal Level in Canada and the U. S: Differences in Understanding and Approach
found in Canada. In the course of his illuminating study of comparative issues in French and American public administration, John Rohr (1991) observes that comparative questions have been somewhat neglected in the last two decades of public-administration-ethics literature. More specifically, Rohr calls for government-ethics scholars to undertake research in which ethical standards in administration are not simply juxtaposed...on a nation-by-nati…
Benefit versus Numbers versus Helping the Worst-off: An Alternative to the Prevalent Approach to the Just Distribution of Resources
A central strand in philosophical debate over the just distribution of resources attempts to juggle three competing imperatives: helping those who are worst off, helping those who will benefit the most, and then – beyond this – determining when to aggregate such ‘worst off’ and ‘benefit’ claims, and when instead to treat no such claim as greater than that which any individual by herself can exert. Yet as various philosophers have observed, ‘we ha…
Limousine Liberals, Welfare Conservatives: On Belief, Interest, and Inconsistency in Democratic Discourse
Soulevant la question de la sincerite et de l'hypocrise des acteurs politiques dans le discours democratique, l'A. mesure l'inconsistance entre la position politique de l'individu et certains traits de son identite personnelle, dans le discours public americain. Opposant la figure du liberal-limousine a celle du conservateur-club de campagne, l'A. montre que la poursuite de l'interet public peut etre entravee par des traits de caractere personnel…
Policy Making and the Demonstration Effect: Privatization in a Deprived Region
The aims of public policies are not always clearly articulated by ministers. Further the aims that are stated may not reflect all – or indeed the most important – aims. In some cases declared policy aims bear little relationship to the real intentions of ministers in undertaking an initiative. In other cases policy decisions are intended as symbolic statements, demonstrating government attitudes on a range of issues beyond the specific matter und…
Corporate Electoral Activity, Constitutional Discourse, and Conceptions of the Individual
Recently, constitutional scholars have begun exploring how far constitutional discourse is governed by competing liberal and republican conceptions of the just or the good society. At the same time, political theorists have placed in doubt how far this debate rests on the metaphysical dichotomy between a radically autonomous and a radically encumbered individual. Scholars, however, have yet to investigate to what extent metaphysical conceptions o…
Public Sector Conflict of Interest at the Federal Level in Canada and the U. S: Differences in Understanding and Approach
found in Canada. In the course of his illuminating study of comparative issues in French and American public administration, John Rohr (1991) observes that comparative questions have been somewhat neglected in the last two decades of public-administration-ethics literature. More specifically, Rohr calls for government-ethics scholars to undertake research in which ethical standards in administration are not simply juxtaposed...on a nation-by-nati…
Policy Making and the Demonstration Effect: Privatization in a Deprived Region
The aims of public policies are not always clearly articulated by ministers. Further the aims that are stated may not reflect all – or indeed the most important – aims. In some cases declared policy aims bear little relationship to the real intentions of ministers in undertaking an initiative. In other cases policy decisions are intended as symbolic statements, demonstrating government attitudes on a range of issues beyond the specific matter und…
Political-Discourse” Analysis and the Debate Over Canada's Lobbying Legislation
Recently, students of public policy making in North America have added the analysis of “political discourse” to the tools of their trade. According to the “political discourse” school, the extent to which policy ideas gain acceptability cannot always be explained rationally in terms of their logical or empirical validity, nor instrumentally in terms of the interests they serve. Often, their careers must be accounted for, at least in part, by a de…
Corporate Electoral Activity, Constitutional Discourse, and Conceptions of the Individual
Recently, constitutional scholars have begun exploring how far constitutional discourse is governed by competing liberal and republican conceptions of the just or the good society. At the same time, political theorists have placed in doubt how far this debate rests on the metaphysical dichotomy between a radically autonomous and a radically encumbered individual. Scholars, however, have yet to investigate to what extent metaphysical conceptions o…
Limousine Liberals, Welfare Conservatives: On Belief, Interest, and Inconsistency in Democratic Discourse
Soulevant la question de la sincerite et de l'hypocrise des acteurs politiques dans le discours democratique, l'A. mesure l'inconsistance entre la position politique de l'individu et certains traits de son identite personnelle, dans le discours public americain. Opposant la figure du liberal-limousine a celle du conservateur-club de campagne, l'A. montre que la poursuite de l'interet public peut etre entravee par des traits de caractere personnel…
Beyond Quid Pro Quo: What's Wrong with Private Gain from Public Office
The longstanding debate over whether officials should be permitted to profit personally from public office has moved to the center of public discourse in the United States. As the HouseEthics Manualput it recently, it is of concern simply when an officeholder "cash[es] in on official position," regardless of whether his or her official performance was in any way impaired as a result. Although the question of private gain from public office is ric…
Beyond Choice: Rethinking the Post-rawlsian Debate over Egalitarian Justice
Revision du debat politique sur la justice opposant l'egalitarisme des ressources et l'egalitarisme du bien-etre. Au-dela de la polemique post-rawlsienne sur la metaphysique du choix individuel, l'A. defend la possibilite d'une troisieme voie fondee sur la construction sociale des biens
What Is the New Public Management
True, there is a defined (if unwieldly) set of ideas that usually gets conjured up whenever NPM is the topic of discussion: competition between public and private service providers; decentralization and delayering of government bureaus; more choice for citizens; benchmarking and output measurements; performance contracts and other financial incentives for public servants; creation of inter-nal markets; and assimilation; within the public sector, …
Why Political Scientists Aren't Public Intellectuals
In a New Republic cover story published three years ago entitled “Irrational Exuberance: When Did Political Science Forget about Politics?” the journalist Jonathan Cohn (1999) lamented the disappearance of a certain kind of academic—typified by the Harvard professors James Q. Wilson, Samuel Huntington and Stanley Hoffmann—from contemporary political science departments. Wilson “was more than just a scholar,” Cohn wrote, “he was a public intellect…
The double irony of health-insurance regulation
Benefit versus Numbers versus Helping the Worst-off: An Alternative to the Prevalent Approach to the Just Distribution of Resources
A central strand in philosophical debate over the just distribution of resources attempts to juggle three competing imperatives: helping those who are worst off, helping those who will benefit the most, and then – beyond this – determining when to aggregate such ‘worst off’ and ‘benefit’ claims, and when instead to treat no such claim as greater than that which any individual by herself can exert. Yet as various philosophers have observed, ‘we ha…
The Consensus School, Its Critics, and Welfare Policy: A Study of American Political Discourse
In the debate between the “consensus” school of American politics and its various critics, all participants have shown themselves capable of shedding light on different historical periods or particular political conflicts; and, of course, given the complexity of public discourse, many American political controversies lend themselves to elucidation by more than one of them. This paper's purpose is to suggest yet a further way of interpreting Ameri…
The Distinction between Public, Nonprofit, and For-Profit: Revisiting the "Core Legal" Approach
In studying the characteristics that determine the public, nonprofit, and/or for-profit nature of organizations, public administration scholarship has elaborated upon the "dimensional" approach (e.g., Bozeman, Barry. 2007. Public values and public interest: Counterbalancing economic individualism. Washington, DC: Georgetown Univ. Press), to the point where it is now furnishing a rich body of theoretical and empirical material on organizational id…
Global Justice, Historical Justice: Looking at the Two Debates in Tandem
The debates over global and historical justice much preoccupy contemporary political theory. Yet they have not been analyzed in tandem. And this, despite the fact that a number of theoretical frameworks, principal among them contractarianism and utilitarianism, configure arguments in both debates. In this essay, I show that such arguments, as advanced by either side in each of the two debates, all rest on a set of patterned assumptions about the …
Principal–Agent Analyses And Management Accounting
The work on optimal contracting and use of information within a principal–agent framework and management accounting and control settings is voluminous.
Value, Externalities, and the Boundaries of the Market
Bridges between Wedges and Frames: Outreach and Compromise in American Political Discourse
Wedges and frames, two much-studied strategies of American political combat, are generally thought to be partisan weapons, meant to manipulate voters into making trade-offs that favor the political actor wielding them. My inquiry here explores whether there exists anything comparably schematic to wedges and frames at work in attempts by American politicians not to polarize but to find consensus, not to cater to extremes but moderate them. Despite…
The unwilling foils of the political right: The cultural elite in Swedish and Norwegian newspapers
Using classic elite understandings as our point of departure, we specify the constituent elements and repertoires of the cultural elite as these are described in Swedish and Norwegian newspapers. Through qualitative and quantitative content analyses, we contextualize and compare the cultural elite through five occupational categories and five main themes, and we ask how these characterizations affect the role this elite plays in politics. Also, w…
Our “Cognitive Limitations” and the Hard Problem of Consciousness
Philosophers have conjectured that human cognitive limitations might preclude our ever resolving the hard problem of consciousness. Few, however, have offered suggestions as to what it might be about our conceptual apparatus that poses the problem. I do so in this essay, arguing that our central difficulties lie with two conceptual categories that pervade philosophical discussion of the hard problem. They are compositional concepts -- part/whole,…
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