L Sutherland
Biographic Data
| ID | 3841738 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Sutherland |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Sutherland |
| SIGNATURE | SUTHERLAND L |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5056-4101 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 5 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Great expectations and hard times
This paper reports on expectations for and community members' experience in the development of community indicators in a healthy communities initiative (HCI) in Alberta, Canada. The HCI process involved community visioning, the creation of action plans to further the vision by addressing key health priorities and/or community capacity building activities and the development of indicators to monitor and report on progress towards goals. Nineteen s…
The Problem of Dirty Hands in Politics
Most treatments of the problem of dirty hands in politics assume that merely holding a position of great political power will require a political actor to violate important moral standards. They assume that the successful political leader must inevitably be morally corrupted by the iniquitous choices that must inevitably be made, and, further, that this casts a shadow upon political life as a moral enterprise. This article argues, instead, that t…
Responsible Government and Ministerial Responsibility
The article defends the classical version of ministerial responsibility against recent initiatives to implement a form of direct accountability for administrators. Constitutional convention and ministerial resignations from active cabinets in the Canadian federal government and in Britain are described: in neither country do ministers resign for maladministration by their officials, nor does doctrine suggest they should. Rather, the pattern of re…
Irrational versus Rational Bases of Political Preference
Political scientists who study mass political preferences in relation to basic personality dimensions assessed through the standard group of objective tests are mining an area of negligible potential. This paper suggests that political preferences are more likely to arise from rationally held cognitions about how society itself functions than from deep-seated personality needs. The potential of this approach is evaluated with data derived from tw…
Patterns of Belief and Action
Responsible Government and Ministerial Responsibility
The article defends the classical version of ministerial responsibility against recent initiatives to implement a form of direct accountability for administrators. Constitutional convention and ministerial resignations from active cabinets in the Canadian federal government and in Britain are described: in neither country do ministers resign for maladministration by their officials, nor does doctrine suggest they should. Rather, the pattern of re…
The Problem of Dirty Hands in Politics
Most treatments of the problem of dirty hands in politics assume that merely holding a position of great political power will require a political actor to violate important moral standards. They assume that the successful political leader must inevitably be morally corrupted by the iniquitous choices that must inevitably be made, and, further, that this casts a shadow upon political life as a moral enterprise. This article argues, instead, that t…
Irrational versus Rational Bases of Political Preference
Political scientists who study mass political preferences in relation to basic personality dimensions assessed through the standard group of objective tests are mining an area of negligible potential. This paper suggests that political preferences are more likely to arise from rationally held cognitions about how society itself functions than from deep-seated personality needs. The potential of this approach is evaluated with data derived from tw…
Patterns of Belief and Action
Patterns of Belief and Action
Irrational versus Rational Bases of Political Preference
Political scientists who study mass political preferences in relation to basic personality dimensions assessed through the standard group of objective tests are mining an area of negligible potential. This paper suggests that political preferences are more likely to arise from rationally held cognitions about how society itself functions than from deep-seated personality needs. The potential of this approach is evaluated with data derived from tw…
Responsible Government and Ministerial Responsibility
The article defends the classical version of ministerial responsibility against recent initiatives to implement a form of direct accountability for administrators. Constitutional convention and ministerial resignations from active cabinets in the Canadian federal government and in Britain are described: in neither country do ministers resign for maladministration by their officials, nor does doctrine suggest they should. Rather, the pattern of re…
The Problem of Dirty Hands in Politics
Most treatments of the problem of dirty hands in politics assume that merely holding a position of great political power will require a political actor to violate important moral standards. They assume that the successful political leader must inevitably be morally corrupted by the iniquitous choices that must inevitably be made, and, further, that this casts a shadow upon political life as a moral enterprise. This article argues, instead, that t…
Great expectations and hard times
This paper reports on expectations for and community members' experience in the development of community indicators in a healthy communities initiative (HCI) in Alberta, Canada. The HCI process involved community visioning, the creation of action plans to further the vision by addressing key health priorities and/or community capacity building activities and the development of indicators to monitor and report on progress towards goals. Nineteen s…
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