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Public Opinion and Political Vulnerability: Why Has the National Endowment for the Arts Been Such an Attractive Target? [PDF]

open access: yes
Federal government arts programs appear to deviate from the rule that legislative behavior closely follows public preferences. Between the mid-1970s and the late 1980s, despite stability in public opinion, the NEA evolved from Congress’s bipartisan ...
Becky Pettit, Paul DiMaggio
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Epistocracy and the Commitment Problem

open access: yesPhilosophy &Public Affairs, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The epistocracy debate has turned largely on the character of the electorate—what voters know, whether competence filters can be designed well, and what filtered selection produces. Another strand has focused on the legitimacy of epistocratic justifications. I ask instead about the equilibrium effects of the institution.
Simon Goldstein
wiley   +1 more source

ShortSCOPE: An Optical Short-Period Seismic Sensor for Planetary Exploration. [PDF]

open access: yesSpace Sci Rev
DellaGiustina DN   +15 more
europepmc   +1 more source

De‐Moralizing Friendship: Unfinished Business

open access: yesPhilosophical Perspectives, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We have duties to our friends that we don't have to strangers. Philosophers traditionally take these duties of friendship to be moral duties. But this moralist position cannot accommodate the full scope of the duties that we have to our friends. Many of these associative duties appear to be duties of a distinct normative kind.
Jessica Isserow
wiley   +1 more source

Pettit, L, 217961

open access: yes, 2017
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Australian Red Cross Society, National Office
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Putting Democratic Theory and Principles of Justice in the Right Place: Ethical Pluralism in Collaborative and Participatory Governance

open access: yesPublic Administration Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Participatory and collaborative governance (P&CG) is widely celebrated as an institutional vehicle for democratizing public decision‐making by inviting affected stakeholders into inclusive and deliberative policy processes. This essay argues that underlying appeals to democratic legitimacy in P&CG are tacit commitments to specific (and often ...
Alexander L. Q. Chen‐Florea
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the Outcomes of the Capacity-Building Support From a Collaborative Network of Implementation Science Technical Assistance Hubs: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Evaluation. [PDF]

open access: yesJMIR Res Protoc
Lee SJ   +20 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Austin Papers: Series III, 1830

open access: yes
Copy of transcript for a letter from Edward L. Pettit to Stephen F. Austin explaining that Pettit has been authorized by J. W. Breedlove to accept and pay Dr.

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Earth Has No Sorrow

open access: yes, 1977
Audio recording of oral history with Henry Pettit.
Azadian, Dee
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