Public Doctrine Research Articles

Cowling on Morality and Religion

Book reviewed in this article: Maurice Cowling, Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England: Volume III: Accommodations

The Alleged Incompleteness of Public Reason

According to John Rawls's ideal of liberal public reason, comprehensive moral, religious and philosophical doctrines should play no more than an auxiliary or marginal role in the political life of constitutional democracies. David Reidy has recently claimed that since liberal public reason is incomplete, comprehensive doctrines, and non-public reasons, must play a wider role than Rawls admits. In response, I argue that Reidy's arguments do not establish that liberal public reason is incomplete. Furthermore, even if the substantive values embodied in liberal public reason were insufficient to determine certain fundamental decisions, such indeterminacy need not be eliminated by recourse to comprehensive doctrines.

Anti‐abortion advertising and access to the airwaves: A public interest doctrine dilemma

In September 1996 a federal appeals court ruled that broadcasters cannot refuse daytime or prime time television federal candidates’ political advertisements containing abortion images. Broadcasters argued the advertisements were harmful to children and, thus, should be restricted. This article explores this public interest dilemma involving two competing interests: the concern for the welfare of children and the public interest in informed political debate. This article also discusses implications of the court decision.

The science of administration, the founders, and theories of political association

Drawing on the work of Michael Oakeshott, this paper seeks to examine the theory of political association underlying Luther Gulick and L. Urwick's Papers on the Science of Administration and to contrast this theory with that underlying the Constitution. It is argued that the authors of the Papers clearly viewed the state as a form of purposive association whereas the Founders of the Constitution in large part saw the state as a form of civil association. This explains the difficulties that reformers such as Gulick faced in realizing their vision of administration within our constitutional framework. Luther Gulick and L. Urwick's Papers on the Science of Administration (1) represent one of the most important attempts at a synthesis of doctrines in the field of public administration prior to World War II. While the Papers exhibit a variety of approaches and views, they are best known for those authors who, like Gulick and Urwick themselves, took a more classical approach to administration. Such an approach rests on a belief in the virtues of hierarchy and centralization of authority and power in the chief executive; a belief in efficiency as the central value of administration; a belief that there must exist certain principles for good administration applicable to all organizations, regardless of institutional setting; and a belief that such principles are susceptible to empirical scientific discovery and verification. These doctrines, expounded so forcefully in the Papers, formed the basis for the administrative reform movement of the time including the President's Committee on Administrative Management, of which Gulick himself was a member. Indeed, the Papers continue to strongly influence modern efforts at administrative reform.(2) The purpose of this article is to examine the particular vision of political association which seems to underlie the Papers, and to compare it with the vision of political association which guided the Founders of the Constitution. In doing so, the article will draw upon the political thinking of the late Michael Oakeshott, a British political theorist and philosopher. I shall argue that there is a tension between the vision of political association held by the authors of the Papers and that held by the Founders, and that this tension explains the failure of administrative reformers to reshape the administrative state along the lines of classical public administration doctrines.

Public doctrine and cultural authority

Public doctrine and cultural authority

Police civil liability for abandonment in high crime areas and other high risk situations

This article addresses police civil liability for abandoning citizens in high crime areas or in other high risk situations of victimization. The public duty doctrine has historically barred police liability for third party victimization. As the number of high crime areas and neighborhoods in which criminal victimization occurs rapidly grows, some courts are eroding the public duty doctrine and holding the police liable for abandoning citizens in dangerous places. An analysis of the ‘special relationship’ and ‘danger creation’ case law pursuant to Section 1983 shows that liability is more prevalent when police abandon children in dangerous places and when police abandonment results in serious physical injury to crime victims. Most courts, however, reject abandonment claims raised under Section 1983 when the police do not show “deliberate indifference” to the plaintiff's constitutional rights. The article concludes with policy guidance for police personnel to avoid liability for abandoning citizens in high crime areas or in other high risk situations.

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Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England. Maurice Cowling

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The Development of Aboriginal Education

Over the past 15 years the voice of protest in Australia has come to be linked synonymously with the black Australian. The nation’s indigenous people have progressively united and, in the strength of unity and growth of support for their claims, have met increasingly resistant Federal and State governments. Unfortunately, the “land rights” issue has dominated the public Aboriginal doctrine, preventing white Australians from being exposed to and appreciating the other important needs and opinions Aboriginal people have.One of these needs is an education system sympathetic to: past, failed attempts at educating indigenous people; the importance of Aboriginal culture as a socio-cultural identifier and educational issue; and the needs Aboriginal children have in terms of curriculum and pedagogy. These fundamental elements are the counterpoints from which any study of the development of Aboriginal education, within Australia, must proceed.

The Political Arts of Lord Liverpool

After her third consecutive election victory in 1987, Margaret Thatcher chose as her holiday reading Norman Gash's biography of Lord Liverpool. It was a fitting tribute from one remarkably durable prime minister to another. No one now thinks of Liverpool as a mediocrity, let alone an arch one, and the fact that many of his colleagues were more flamboyant than he was merely adds to his stature. His achievements as a statesman are emphasised by Gash, who depicts him as ‘one of the great through unacknowledged architects of the liberal, free trade Victorian state’, the first exponent of a public doctrine which, in both its economic and its moral components, would be taken up triumphantly by his successors—Peel, Gladstone, and (it might be argued) Thatcher. His achievements as a politician, meanwhile, can be measured by the fact that he sustained a fifteen year premiership, broken only by his stroke in February 1827, during a period of extreme social and economic difficulty. This seems all the more remarkable in view of the fact that the eighteenth century had seemed to demonstrate that in order to run a stable administration, a first lord of the treasury needed to be in the House of Commons.

Cowling and the English Intelligentsia

Cowling and the English Intelligentsia Get access Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England (volume I, 1980; volume II (‘Assaults’), 1985) by Maurice Cowling. Cambridge University Press, £30 each (or £40 as a set) Mark Le Fanu Mark Le Fanu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Cambridge Quarterly, Volume XVII, Issue 1, 1988, Pages 84–91, https://doi.org/10.1093/camqtly/XVII.1.84 Published: 01 January 1988

Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England. Volume 2, Assaults. By Maurice Cowling. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xxvii + 375 pp. $49.50.

Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England. Volume 2, Assaults. By Maurice Cowling. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. xxvii + 375 pp. $49.50.

Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England. Volume 2. Assaults

Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England. Volume 2. Assaults

Reviews and Short Notices

Reviews and Short Notices

Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England. Maurice Cowling

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BOOK REVIEWS

Books Reviewed in this Article: The Structure of Time. By W.H. Newton‐Smith. Towards a Transformation of Philosophy. By Karl‐Otto Apel. Actions. By Jennifer Hornsby. The Will: A Dual Aspect Theory. By Brian O'Shaughnessy. 2 vols., Cambridge. Cambridge University Press, 1980, £25 and £27.50. The Problem of Self‐Love in St Augustine. By Oliver O'Donovan. Conscience: Development and Self‐transcendence. By Walter E. Conn. Psychology and Moral Theology: Lines of Convergence. By B. Kiely. Race, IQ, and Jensen. By James R. Flynn. Intelligence: The Battle for the Mind. H.J. Eysenck versus Leon Kamin. Apologetics and the Eclipse of Mystery: Mystagogy According to Karl Rahner. By J.J. Bacik. Karl Rahner: An Introduction to his Theology. By Karl‐Heinz Weiger. A World of Grace: An Introduction to the Themes and Foundations of Karl Rahner's Theology. Edited by L.J. O'Donovan. The Lonergan Enterprise. By Frederick E. Crowe. A Passion for Truth, Hans Küing, a Biography. By Robert Nowell. The Roots of a Radical. By John A.T. Robinson. The Problems of Theology. By B.L. Hebblethwaite. Death. Edited by John Prickett. Thou Shalt not Kill. By Augustine Regan. Killing and Letting Die. Edited by Bonnie Steinbock. Where Do We Stand? An Examination of the Christian's Position in the Modern World. By Harry Blamires. The Secularist Heresy. By Harry Blamires. La Sfida del Femminismo alla Teologia. Edited by Mary Hunt and Rosino Gibellini. Christian Religious Education. By T.H. Groome. The Way to Peace. By L. John Topel. Kirche. Festschrift für Günther Bornkamm zum 75. Geburtstag. Edited by Dieter Lührmann und Georg Strecker. History and Criticism of the Marcan Hypothesis. By Hans‐Herbert Stoldt. The Son of Man in the Teaching of Jesus. By A.J.B. Higgins. Le Mirage de ľEschatologie. By Jean Carmignac. Jesus and the End of the World. By T.F. Glasson. Clio Unbound: Perception of the Social and Cultural Past in Renaissance England. By Arthur B. Ferguson. The Origins of History. By Herbert Butterfield, edited by Adam Watson. The Unholy Crusade. By John Godfrey. Authority and Power. Edited by Brian Tierney and Peter Linehan. The Writing of History in the Middle Ages. Edited by R.H.C. Davis and J.M. Wallace‐Hadrill. The Fool of God. By George T. Peck. Luther and Staupitz: An Essay in the Intellectual Origins of the Protestant Reformation. By David C. Steinmetz. The Family of Love. By Alastair Hamilton. The History of Christianity in West Africa. Edited by O.U. Kalu. Religion and Public Doctrine in England. By Maurice Cowling. Vatican Diplomacy: The Jews during the Holocaust. By John F. Morley. Papal Power. By Jean Guy Vaillancourt. Dizionario degli Istituti di Perfezione. Edited by Guerrino Pelliccia (1962–68) and Giancarlo Rocca (1969‐). Vol. VI, Monachesimo urbano‐Pinzoni. Presence, Power, Praise: Documents on the Charismatic Renewal. Edited by Kilian McDonnell. 3 Vols. Collegeville (Minn.), Liturgical Press, 1980, no price given. Someone, No One: An Essay un Individuality. By Kenelm Burridge. The Formation of Social Policy in the Catholic and Jewish Traditions. Edited by E.J. Fisher and D.F. Polish. Les Revues de Sciences Religieuses. By Otto Lankhorst. The New Oxford Book of Christian Verse. Chosen and edited by Donald Davie. David Jones: The Roman Quarry and Other Sequences. Edited by Harman Grisewood and René Hague. Simone de Beauvoir and the Limits of Commitment. By Anne Whitmarsh. This Year in Jerusalem: Israel in Experience. By Kenneth Cragg.

Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England

Foreword Preface 1. Prelude 2. Receptions 3. Recessions 4. Recognitions Epilogue Notes Bibliography Index of main names.

REVIEWS AND SHORT NOTICES

REVIEWS AND SHORT NOTICES

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:THE RISE OF ANGLO‐GERMAN ANTAGONISM 1860–1914. By Paul Kennedy.DOCUMENTS ON AUSTRALIAN FOREIGN POLICY 1937–49. Volume IV: July 1940–June 1941. Edited by W. J. Hudson and H. J. W. Stokes.AUSTRALIA AND THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS. By W. J. Hudson.MY DEAR P.M.: R. G. Casey's letters to S. M. Bruce 1924–1929. Edited by W. J. Hudson & Jane North.A HISTORY OF AUSTRALIAN EDUCATION. By Alan Barcan.THE ABORIGINAL POPULATION OF AUSTRALIA. By L. R. Smith.AGAINST THE TIDE. By B. A. Santamaria.RESPONSIBLE GOVERNMENT IN AUSTRALIA. Edited by Patrick Weller and Dean Jaensch.ESSAYS ON WESTERN AUSTRALIAN POLITICS. Edited by Ralph Pervan and Campbell Sharman.ECONOMIC CRISIS, CITIES AND REGIONS: an analysis of current urban and regional problems in Australia. By Frank J. B. Stilwell with contributions by Graham Larcombe.LOCAL GOVERNMENT SYSTEMS OF AUSTRALIA. Edited by J. Power, R. Wettenhall and J. Halligan.STATE GOVERNMENTS AND AUSTRALIAN TARIFF POLICY. Ry John Warhurst.SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND PUBLIC POLICY: An International Perspective. Edited by Sol Encel and Jarlath Ronayne.PUBLIC CHOICE IN TASMANIA: Aspects of the Lower Gordon River Hydro‐Electric Development Proposal. By Hugh Saddler, Jeff Bennett, Ian Reynolds and Ben Smith.INDUSTRIAL ACTION: Patterns of Labour Conflict. Edited by Stephen J. Frenkel.WAR FOR THE ASKING: Australia's Vietnam Secrets. By Michael Sexton.THE MILITARY AND AUSTRALIA'S DEFENCE. Edited by F. A. Mediansky.LEGISLATION AND SOCIETY IN AUSTRALIA. Edited by Roman Tomasic.EROSION OF THE JUDICIAL PROCESS: An Aspect of Church‐State Entanglement in Australia. The struggle of citizens to be heard in the Australian Full High Court on the State Aid issue: 1956–1980. By M. J. Ely.THE AUSTRALIAN WELFARE STATE. By M. A. Jones.A COMPARATIVE APPROACH TO POLICY ANALYSIS: Health Care Policy in Four Nations. By Howard M. Leichter.A SUITABLE PIECE OF REAL ESTATE: American Installations in Australia. By Desmond Ball.THE MEDIA AND POLITICS IN AUSTRALIA. Edited by David Turbayne.VICEROY OF THE PACIFIC: The Majesty of Colour. A Life of Sir John Bates Thurston. By Deryck Scarr.MILITARY POWER AND POLICY IN ASIAN STATES: China, India, Japan. Edited by Onkar Marwah and Jonathan D. Pollock.THE CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF CHINA. Vol 11: Late Ch'ing 1800–1911. Part 2. Edited by John K. Fairbank and Kwang‐Ching Liu.MAO: A Biography. By Ross Terrill.WHO'S WHO OF BRITISH MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT. Volume 111, 1919–1945. A Biographical Dictionary of the House of Commons. Edited by Michael Stenton and Stephen Lees.LLOYD GEORGE'S SECRETARIAT. By John Turner.RELIGION AND PUBLIC DOCTRINE IN MODERN ENGLAND. By Maurice Cowling.BRITAIN SINCE 1918. Second Edition. By Bentley B. Gilbert.THE TRIUMPHS OF PROVIDENCE. The Assassination Plot, 1696. By Jane Garrett.THE LIBERALS AND IRELAND: The Ulster Question in British Politics to 1914. By Patricia Jalland.THE OTHER WESTERN EUROPE: A Political Analysis of the Smaller Democracies. By Earl H. Fry and Gregory A. Raymond.STATE AND SOCIETY IN EUROPE, 1550–1650. By V. G. Kiernan.THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF GERMANY IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. By Karl Hardach.IN THE EYE OF THE STORM: Kurl Riezler and the Crises of Modern Germany. By Wayne C. Thompson.AUGUST BEBEL: Shadow Emperor of the German Workers. By William Harvey Maehl.THE SOVIETIZATION OF UKRAINE 1917–1923: The Communist Doctrine and Practice of National Self‐Determination. Revised Edition. By Jurij Borys.UKRAINIAN NATIONALISM IN THE POST–STALIN ERA: Myth, Symbols and Ideology in Soviet Nationalities Policy. By Kenneth C. Farmer.STRIKES. By Norman McCord.ELECTORAL PARTICIPATION: A Comparative Analysis. Edited by Richard Rose.THE FIRST CRUSADE. By Steven Runciman.THE DIPLOMACY OF IDEAS: U.S. Foreign Policy and Cultural Relations, 1938–1950. By Frank A. Ninkovich.CAUDILLO AND PEASANT IN THE MEXICAN REVOLUTION. Edited by D. A. Brading.MORAL PRINCIPLES AND POLITICAL OBLIGATIONS. By A. John Simmons.PEOPLE'S HISTORY AND SOCIALIST THEORY. Edited by Raphael Samuel.EDMUND BURKE AND THE CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL RADICALISM. By Michael Freeman.COMPARING POLITICAL THINKERS. Edited by Ross Fitzgerald.AUTHORITY AND DEMOCRACY. By April Carter.THE SOCIAL AND POLITICAL THOUGHT OF LEON TROTSKY. By Baruch Knei‐Paz.FABIANISMUS UND BERNSTEIN'SCHER REVISIONISMUS 1884–1900. By Herbert Frei.THE DOMINANT IDEOLOGY THESIS. By Nicholas Abercrombie, Stephen Hill and Bryan S. Turner.

Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England. By Maurice Cowling. (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics,) Pp. xxiv + 475. Cambridge University Press, 1980. £20.

Religion and Public Doctrine in Modern England. By Maurice Cowling. (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics,) Pp. xxiv + 475. Cambridge University Press, 1980. £20.