Making Progress
Description
While a universal definition of 'progress' has proved elusive, measures of progress have been defined and grouped, into the broad areas of material wealth; social relations; technical capacity; and moral, aesthetic, and intellectual sensibilities. However, not until the 'Progress Project,' whose results are gathered here, has the impact of progress on public policy in these realms been systematically explored. In this volume, noted scholars in economics, government, education, technology, literature, culture, and religion, among other fields, discuss the meaning and measurement of progress in their areas of specialty. They assess particular policies that have either promoted or retarded progress and provide recommendations for policy processes or instruments that better reflect the nature of forward movement in the current era. Making Progress is an important contribution to both the theoretical and practical literature on public policy; it is a resource for scholars and students as well as a guide for policymakers, analysts, and advocates who help craft those policies in the name of progress.
Table of Contents
Part 2 Foreword
Part 3 Introduction
Part 4 Section I: Defining, Measuring, and Implementing Progress
Chapter 5 Progress and the Promise of Public Policy
Chapter 6 Two Steps Forward and One Step Back: An Assessment
Chapter 7 Making Progress in Implementation Scholarship: A Survey of the Literature
Part 8 Section II: The Domains of Progress
Part 9 Progress in Ourselves
Chapter 10 Introduction
Chapter 11 Progress and Evolution
Chapter 12 The Meaning of Progress in the New Millennium
Chapter 13 Faith and the Future: Religion and the Problem of Progress in the New Millennium
Chapter 14 Progress in Literature
Chapter 15 Paradoxical Progress: Medical Advances and Moral Anxiety
Chapter 16 Young Children: The First Step in Progress
Chapter 17 Progress and Education: Supporting the Realization of Human Aspirations
Part 18 Progress in Our Relations with Others
Chapter 19 Introduction
Chapter 20 Achieving Progress in Solving Collective-Action Problems
Chapter 21 Is There Cultural Progress?
Chapter 22 Ethnopolitical Warfare and Massacres: Is There Progress?
Chapter 23 Progress and Contentious Politics
Chapter 24 NGOs, Development, and Human Rights: A Story of Progress and Policy
Chapter 25 Free Press, Profit Margins, and Democratic Governance: Is There a Fatal Flaw?
Part 26 Progress in Our Material and Natural World
Chapter 27 Introduction
Chapter 28 Progress and the Natural Sciences: Issues and Perspectives
Chapter 29 Progress: An Economist's View
Chapter 30 Perhaps Progress Really is Our Most Important Product: A Feminist Contemplates the Twentieth Century
Chapter 31 Information Technology and Progress
Chapter 32 Toward Eliminating Poverty From the World: Grameen Bank Experience
Chapter 33 Progressing Toward Environmental Sustainability
Product details
| Published | 27 Nov 2002 |
|---|---|
| Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 488 |
| ISBN | 9780739157442 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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