1st Edition

The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy

Edited By Annabelle Lever, Andrei Poama Copyright 2019
    576 Pages
    by Routledge

    576 Pages
    by Routledge

    What does it mean to do public policy ethics today? How should philosophers engage with ethical issues in policy-making when policy decisions are circumscribed by political and pragmatic concerns? How do ethical issues in public policy differ between areas such as foreign policy, criminal justice, or environmental policy?





    The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy addresses all these questions and more, and is the first handbook of its kind. It is comprised of 41 chapters written by leading international contributors, and is organised into four clear sections covering the following key topics:









    • Methodology: philosophical approaches to public policy, ethical expertise, knowledge, and public policy


    • Democracy and public policy: identity, integration and inclusion: voting, linguistic policy, discrimination, youth policy, religious toleration, and the family


    • Public goods: defence and foreign policy, development and climate change, surveillance and internal security, ethics of welfare, healthcare and fair trade, sovereignty and territorial boundaries, and the ethics of nudging


    • Public policy challenges: criminal justice, policing, taxation, poverty, disability, reparation, and ethics of death policies.






    The Routledge Handbook of Ethics and Public Policy is essential reading for students and researchers in philosophy, politics, and social policy. It will be equally useful to those in related disciplines, such as economics and law, or professional fields, such as business administration or policy-making in general.

    Introduction Annabelle Lever and Andrei Poama 



     PART 1: Ethics for Public Policy: Models and Methods  1. Method in Philosophy and Public Policy: Applied Philosophy versus Engaged Philosophy Jonathan Wolff  2. The Public Role of Ethics and Public Policy Jeffrey Howard  3. Application or Construction? Two Types of Public Policy Ethics Andrei Poama  4. Public Policy and Normative Methods Albert Weale  5. Models, Mechanisms, Metrics: The Entanglement of Methods of Policy Inquiry with Democratic Possibilities Susan Orr and James Johnson  6. Ethical Expertise and Public Policy John Harris and David Lawrence 



    PART 2: Public policy and the basics of government  7. Security and Police Ethics John Kleinig  8. More than Privacy: Thinking Ethically about Public Area Surveillance Benjamin Goold  9. Ethics and Criminal Justice Policy 
Matt Matravers  10. Territoriality and Personality: Concepts and Normative Considerations Helder de Schutter  11. What is public space for? Political imaginaries and policy implications Bernardo Zacka  12. The Ethics of Education Policies David Steiner  13. The Ethics of Tax Policy Ira K. Lindsay  14. The Ethics of Central Banking François Claveau, Peter Dietsch, and Clément Fontan  15. Ethics and Foreign Policy Michael Blake  16. Justice and Trade Policy Andrew Walton  17. Democratic Values and the Limits of War Christopher Kutz 



    PART 3: Public policy, inclusion and solidarity  18. The Political Ethics of Political Campaigns Dennis F. Thompson  19. Should Voting Be Compulsory? Democracy and the Ethics of Voting Annabelle Lever and Alexandru Volacu  20. The Ethics of Anti-Corruption Policies Emanuela Ceva and Maria Paola Ferretti  21. The Ethics of Anti-Discrimination Policies Kasper Lippert-Rasmussen  22. Race, Racism, and Social Policy Albert Atkin  23. Gender-egalitarian policies in the workplace and the family Anca Gheaus  24. Disability, Democratic Equality, and Public Policy Daniel Putnam  25. The Ethics of Indigenous Rights Teddy Harrison and Melissa S. Williams  26. The Ethics of Reparations Policies Alasia Nuti and Jennifer M. Page  27. The Ethics of Anti-Poverty Policies Jonathan Wolff  28. The Democratic Ethics of a Minimum Income Stuart White  29. Public Engagement in Health Policy: Mapping Aims and Approaches Matthew McCoy and Ezekiel J. Emanuel  30. The Ethics of Death Policies Søren Holm 



    PART 4: Public policy, diversity and sustainability  31. Ethics of Family Reunification Iseult Honohan  32. Are Civic Integration Tests Justifiable? A Three-Step Test Bouke de Vries  33. The Ethics of Language Policies Astrid von Busekist  34. The Ethics of Toleration and Religious Accommodations Aurelia Bardon and Emanuela Ceva  35. Freedom and destiny: how new technologies are influencing ethics and policy of abortion Giulia Cavaliere and John Harris  36. Towards a Democratic Ethics of Youth Policies Juliana Bidadanure  37. Measuring Intergenerational Justice for Public Policy Pieter Vanhuysse and Jörg Tremmel  38. Development and Climate Ethics Darrell Moellendorf  39. The Ethics of Waste Policy Ivo Wallimann-Helmer  40. The Ethics of Behavioural Public Policy Robert Lepenies and Magdalena Małecka  41. Ethics, Neuroscience and Public Policy: A Case Study of Raising Neuroscientists’ Awareness of the Problem of Dual Use Simon Whitby and Malcolm Dando

    Biography

    Annabelle Lever is Professeure des Universités à Sciences Po, Paris. She is the author of On Privacy (2012), and A Democratic Conception of Privacy (2014), the editor of New Frontiers in the Philosophy of Intellectual Property (2014), and the co-editor of Ideas that Matter: Justice, Democracy, Rights (2018).





    Andrei Poama is Assistant Professor (with a focus on ethics and political philosophy) at the Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, Institute of Public Administration, Leiden University, the Netherlands.

    'The public urgently needs to regain the possibility of open-ended, principled discussion about public policy. Relatedly, those training future policy-makers need ways to go beyond offering isolated "ethics modules," as if policy could generally really be made solely by consulting facially neutral technocratic methods. Addressing both of these needs, this volume beautifully demonstrates, across a great variety of policy issues, how philosophical reflection that engages with concrete problems can offer insights that facilitate and enrich democratic discussion about what we should be trying to do.' - Henry S. Richardson, Georgetown University, USA 

    'The ethics of public policy grew out of political philosophy but has expanded so as to claim its own identity. But there is no work that defines the method, domain, and scope of the ethics of public policy. This Handbook does just that. It is the long-awaited manifesto for a new discipline in philosophy.' - Iwao Hirose, McGill University, Canada