Stephen Gilliatt
Biographic Data
| ID | 369561 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Gilliatt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Gilliatt |
| SIGNATURE | GILLIATT S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Northumbria University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 13 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
No surrender? The attachment to identity and contemporary political thought
The defence of value pluralism in contemporary political philosophy has involved an abstention from questioning the commitments that individuals make to their particular doctrines and identities. This has prevented discussion of the phenomena of identity through conflict that is at the heart of the failure of politics in a number of contemporary settings. 'Political liberalism' and deliberative democracy, in their different ways, are shown to hav…
Public Services and the Consumer
This discussion provides a critical perspective on the growth of consumerism in social policy and public life. Debates around consumer and producer interests are examined before suggesting that a 'responsible consumer' has emerged: A service-user increasingly expected to take on a greater role in managing the conditions under which services are provided. It is argued that such consumerism, far from empowering the individual consumer, has served t…
A Testing Time
This paper examines some of the practices and accompanying assumptions that underlie the work of assessing students' written performance. Examiners are shown to give meaning to, and to construct and reconstruct, the answers that their students provide. In doing this resort is made to common sense or taken for granted concepts, many of which involve labelling. Political processes such as power, negotiation and compromise are also identified. In a …
Disliking Politics
This article seeks to uncover a philosophical basis for negative perceptions of political activity, including an unwillingness to recognise a political realm in the conduct of private life. Drawing on the work of Alfred Schutz and the ethical theory of Stoicism, the ingredients of an apolitical orientation find a cognitive and moral intelligibility which, while not necessarily desirable, can nevertheless make sense of the low reputation in which …
Consumers at Work
Being Political
In defining the political it is possible to identify a dominant trend preoccupied with the idea of politics as a positive means of conflict management. This has often overshadowed the alternatives which view politics as a conflictual system of thought and action. Such alternatives can be reinforced by taking seriously the understanding that ordinary people have of what is involved in being political. From this, it is possible to conceive of polit…
Public Policy Analysis and Conceptual Conservatism
The current drift in the analysis of public policy is to devalue the analytical importance of party and politician and to question the capacity of centrally directed administration at the top to order and control policy processes, in ways which can ensure a match between intention and outcome. Instead we are treated to arguments which put increasing stress on what happens after policies are framed, with the search for answers being directed below…
Public Services and the Consumer
This discussion provides a critical perspective on the growth of consumerism in social policy and public life. Debates around consumer and producer interests are examined before suggesting that a 'responsible consumer' has emerged: A service-user increasingly expected to take on a greater role in managing the conditions under which services are provided. It is argued that such consumerism, far from empowering the individual consumer, has served t…
Public Policy Analysis and Conceptual Conservatism
The current drift in the analysis of public policy is to devalue the analytical importance of party and politician and to question the capacity of centrally directed administration at the top to order and control policy processes, in ways which can ensure a match between intention and outcome. Instead we are treated to arguments which put increasing stress on what happens after policies are framed, with the search for answers being directed below…
No surrender? The attachment to identity and contemporary political thought
The defence of value pluralism in contemporary political philosophy has involved an abstention from questioning the commitments that individuals make to their particular doctrines and identities. This has prevented discussion of the phenomena of identity through conflict that is at the heart of the failure of politics in a number of contemporary settings. 'Political liberalism' and deliberative democracy, in their different ways, are shown to hav…
Consumers at Work
Being Political
In defining the political it is possible to identify a dominant trend preoccupied with the idea of politics as a positive means of conflict management. This has often overshadowed the alternatives which view politics as a conflictual system of thought and action. Such alternatives can be reinforced by taking seriously the understanding that ordinary people have of what is involved in being political. From this, it is possible to conceive of polit…
Public Policy Analysis and Conceptual Conservatism
The current drift in the analysis of public policy is to devalue the analytical importance of party and politician and to question the capacity of centrally directed administration at the top to order and control policy processes, in ways which can ensure a match between intention and outcome. Instead we are treated to arguments which put increasing stress on what happens after policies are framed, with the search for answers being directed below…
Being Political
In defining the political it is possible to identify a dominant trend preoccupied with the idea of politics as a positive means of conflict management. This has often overshadowed the alternatives which view politics as a conflictual system of thought and action. Such alternatives can be reinforced by taking seriously the understanding that ordinary people have of what is involved in being political. From this, it is possible to conceive of polit…
Consumers at Work
Disliking Politics
This article seeks to uncover a philosophical basis for negative perceptions of political activity, including an unwillingness to recognise a political realm in the conduct of private life. Drawing on the work of Alfred Schutz and the ethical theory of Stoicism, the ingredients of an apolitical orientation find a cognitive and moral intelligibility which, while not necessarily desirable, can nevertheless make sense of the low reputation in which …
A Testing Time
This paper examines some of the practices and accompanying assumptions that underlie the work of assessing students' written performance. Examiners are shown to give meaning to, and to construct and reconstruct, the answers that their students provide. In doing this resort is made to common sense or taken for granted concepts, many of which involve labelling. Political processes such as power, negotiation and compromise are also identified. In a …
Public Services and the Consumer
This discussion provides a critical perspective on the growth of consumerism in social policy and public life. Debates around consumer and producer interests are examined before suggesting that a 'responsible consumer' has emerged: A service-user increasingly expected to take on a greater role in managing the conditions under which services are provided. It is argued that such consumerism, far from empowering the individual consumer, has served t…
No surrender? The attachment to identity and contemporary political thought
The defence of value pluralism in contemporary political philosophy has involved an abstention from questioning the commitments that individuals make to their particular doctrines and identities. This has prevented discussion of the phenomena of identity through conflict that is at the heart of the failure of politics in a number of contemporary settings. 'Political liberalism' and deliberative democracy, in their different ways, are shown to hav…
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