This volume reflects thinking on the implications of corporate governance shifting from shareholders to stakeholders. It deals with the socio-economics of decision making, and closes with a comparative analysis between socio-economics and communitarian thinking.
Challenges those who argue that diversity or multiculturalism is about to become the governing American creed. This book presents evidence that Americans, whites and African Americans, Hispanics and Asian Americans, new immigrants and decedents of the Pilgrims, continue to share the same core of basic American values and aspirations.
In this work, Amitai Etzioni, one of America's admired public figures, tells the story of his life. He also reflects on his vision of a society whose members care profoundly about one another, assume responsibilities and do not just demand rights, and attend to the common good.
Since the attacks of September 11th 2001, the tension between civil rights and public safety has dominated public discourse in the USA. This text examines whether it is possible for the USA to defend itself against terrorism without violating the values and principles of its democratic order.
In this book, Amitai Etzioni, public intellectual and leading proponent of communitarian values, defends the view that no society can flourish without a shared obligation to the common good.
aeo The book highlights the importance of the autonomy of counter--elites of social movements in the move to more democratic and egalitarian Western democracies. aeo The author combines a liberal, democratic elite perspective with a progessive, egalitarian orientation.
Internationally renowned communitarian leader Amitai Etzioni presents a controversial challenge to the fundamental American belief in personal privacy at all costs
The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials brings together essays by prominent social thinkers reflecting on issues ranging from moral obligations to civil liberties after 9/11. The result is a book both practical and theoretical, and an essential guide for all interested in further exploring this important social movement.
Toward a new consensus on rights and responsibilities
In this book, Amitai Etzioni, public intellectual and leading proponent of communitarian values, defends the view that no society can flourish without a shared obligation to the common good.