Duty Bound: Responsibility and American Public Life

by Mark Blitz

Book Overview

In this timely and enlightening new work, Mark Blitz explores the link between character and politics in liberal democracies, focusing on the importance of responsibility in American public and professional life. He begins by analyzing the place of responsibility in politics, tackling contemporary questions with an eye toward foreign policy and the workings of bureaucracies. Turning to the ways in which responsibility functions in the professions,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0742533026
• ISBN13: 9780742533028
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.7" x 8.5"