C F Abel
Biographic Data
| ID | 6249771 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C F Abel |
| GIVEN NAMES | C F |
| FAMILY NAME | Abel |
| SIGNATURE | ABEL C F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stephen F. Austin State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3462-2310 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Politics, governance and the ethics of belief
In matters of governance, is believing subject to ethical standards? If so, what are the criteria how relevant are they in our personal and political culture today? The really important matters in politics and governance necessitate a confidence that our beliefs will lead dependably to predictable and verifiable outcomes. Accordingly, it is unethical to hold a belief that is founded on insufficient evidence or based on hearsay or blind acceptance…
Professor Kym Thorne: An Overview of His Scholarship
On January 16, 2016, Professor Kym Thorne passed away in his sleep. Kym had a remarkable career and was beloved by his colleagues and friends on many continents. He was an exceptional academic and a much-loved and respected colleague and friend to the PAT-NET community as well. Through his legacy of publications, he will continue to encourage inspired thinking and to challenge commonly held beliefs. He is deeply and sincerely missed by those who …
Symposium Introduction: Alternative Visions of Public Administration
What's Left of Capitalism and What We Should Do About It: A Polemic
The capitalism of Adam Smith's devising is intent upon unfettering our natural liberty so that we might act upon our interests to the betterment of the whole. Government agencies promoting a cheerful and hearty populace were taken by Smith as a necessary ingredient to his scheme. The free-market capitalism of our own devising is intent upon efficiency, a trait of markets that Smith considered a natural by-product of our creativity as expressed in…
Friedrich, Pragmatism, and the Warrants of Authority
Thoughtfully employed, Carl Friedrich's conception of authority leads us to a pragmatic solution to the problem of what should constitute the proper warrants of authority. Contrary to the thinking of some who favor pragmatism in Public Administration, the discourse on this problem is neither pointless nor likely to dissolve should we opt for fully inclusive collaboration between administrators and citizens. And contrary to those who argue that ge…
Power, Emancipation and the Administrative State
Until recently, critical theorists have conceived of power in terms of domination. Public bureaucracies were thought to play a central role in domination as they mediated on behalf of dominant interests both by embodying and enforcing the dominant ideology, and by reinforcing society-wide practices of domination. Habermas, however, has suggested that one particular form of power, “communicative power,” might be emancipatory rather than domineerin…
Power, Emancipation and the Administrative State
Until recently, critical theorists have conceived of power in terms of domination. Public bureaucracies were thought to play a central role in domination as they mediated on behalf of dominant interests both by embodying and enforcing the dominant ideology, and by reinforcing society-wide practices of domination. Habermas, however, has suggested that one particular form of power, “communicative power,” might be emancipatory rather than domineerin…
Friedrich, Pragmatism, and the Warrants of Authority
Thoughtfully employed, Carl Friedrich's conception of authority leads us to a pragmatic solution to the problem of what should constitute the proper warrants of authority. Contrary to the thinking of some who favor pragmatism in Public Administration, the discourse on this problem is neither pointless nor likely to dissolve should we opt for fully inclusive collaboration between administrators and citizens. And contrary to those who argue that ge…
Symposium Introduction: Alternative Visions of Public Administration
What's Left of Capitalism and What We Should Do About It: A Polemic
The capitalism of Adam Smith's devising is intent upon unfettering our natural liberty so that we might act upon our interests to the betterment of the whole. Government agencies promoting a cheerful and hearty populace were taken by Smith as a necessary ingredient to his scheme. The free-market capitalism of our own devising is intent upon efficiency, a trait of markets that Smith considered a natural by-product of our creativity as expressed in…
Power, Emancipation and the Administrative State
Until recently, critical theorists have conceived of power in terms of domination. Public bureaucracies were thought to play a central role in domination as they mediated on behalf of dominant interests both by embodying and enforcing the dominant ideology, and by reinforcing society-wide practices of domination. Habermas, however, has suggested that one particular form of power, “communicative power,” might be emancipatory rather than domineerin…
Friedrich, Pragmatism, and the Warrants of Authority
Thoughtfully employed, Carl Friedrich's conception of authority leads us to a pragmatic solution to the problem of what should constitute the proper warrants of authority. Contrary to the thinking of some who favor pragmatism in Public Administration, the discourse on this problem is neither pointless nor likely to dissolve should we opt for fully inclusive collaboration between administrators and citizens. And contrary to those who argue that ge…
What's Left of Capitalism and What We Should Do About It: A Polemic
The capitalism of Adam Smith's devising is intent upon unfettering our natural liberty so that we might act upon our interests to the betterment of the whole. Government agencies promoting a cheerful and hearty populace were taken by Smith as a necessary ingredient to his scheme. The free-market capitalism of our own devising is intent upon efficiency, a trait of markets that Smith considered a natural by-product of our creativity as expressed in…
Symposium Introduction: Alternative Visions of Public Administration
Professor Kym Thorne: An Overview of His Scholarship
On January 16, 2016, Professor Kym Thorne passed away in his sleep. Kym had a remarkable career and was beloved by his colleagues and friends on many continents. He was an exceptional academic and a much-loved and respected colleague and friend to the PAT-NET community as well. Through his legacy of publications, he will continue to encourage inspired thinking and to challenge commonly held beliefs. He is deeply and sincerely missed by those who …
Politics, governance and the ethics of belief
In matters of governance, is believing subject to ethical standards? If so, what are the criteria how relevant are they in our personal and political culture today? The really important matters in politics and governance necessitate a confidence that our beliefs will lead dependably to predictable and verifiable outcomes. Accordingly, it is unethical to hold a belief that is founded on insufficient evidence or based on hearsay or blind acceptance…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Law and economics (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Corporate governance (2 works) · Critical Theory and Philosophy (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works)