Heclo, Hugh

Christianity and American democracy by Hugh Heclo( )

17 editions published between 2007 and 2009 in English and held by 1,971 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Christianity, not religion in general, has been important for American democracy. With this bold thesis, Hugh Heclo offers a panoramic view of how Christianity and democracy have shaped each other. Heclo shows that amid deeply felt religious differences, a Protestant colonial society gradually convinced itself of the truly Christian reasons for, as well as the enlightened political advantages of, religious liberty. By the mid-twentieth century, American democracy and Christianity appeared locked in a mutual embrace. But it was a problematic union vulnerable to fundamental challenge in the Sixties. Despite the subsequent rise of the religious right and glib talk of a conservative Republican theocracy, Heclo sees a longer-term, reciprocal estrangement between Christianity and American democracy. Responding to his challenging argument, Mary Jo Bane, Michael Kazin, and Alan Wolfe criticize, qualify, and amend it. Heclo's rejoinder suggests why both secularists and Christians should worry about a coming rupture between the Christian and democratic faiths. The result is a lively debate about a momentous tension in American public life

Comparative public policy : the politics of social choice in Europe and America by Arnold J Heidenheimer( Book )

71 editions published between 1975 and 1996 in English and Undetermined and held by 1,443 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The third edition of this established text adds coverage of Japan to the United States, Britain, France, West Germany, the Netherlands and Sweden. It provides a comparative introduction to the formulation, substance and implementation of public policy to its range of coverage

A government of strangers : executive politics in Washington by Hugh Heclo( Book )

15 editions published in 1977 in English and held by 1,026 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Modern social politics in Britain and Sweden; from relief to income maintenance by Hugh Heclo( Book )

32 editions published between 1974 and 2010 in English and held by 772 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The private government of public money; community and policy inside British politics by Hugh Heclo( Book )

47 editions published between 1974 and 1989 in English and held by 766 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The Illusion of presidential government by Hugh Heclo( Book )

13 editions published between 1981 and 1982 in English and held by 689 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Religion returns to the public square : faith and policy in America( Book )

8 editions published in 2003 in English and held by 543 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Policy and politics in Sweden : principled pragmatism by Hugh Heclo( Book )

11 editions published between 1986 and 1987 in English and held by 461 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

On thinking institutionally by Hugh Heclo( Book )

15 editions published between 2008 and 2013 in English and Spanish and held by 290 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"The twenty-first-century mind deeply distrusts the authority of institutions. It has taken several centuries for advocates of critical thinking to convince western culture that to be rational, liberated, authentic, and modern means to be anti-institutional. In this mold-breaking book, Hugh Heclo moves beyond the abstract academic realm of thinking about institutions to the more personal significance and larger social meaning of what it is to think institutionally. His account ranges from Michael Jordan's respect for the game of basketball to Greek philosophy, from twenty-first-century corporate and political scandals to Christian theology and the concept of office and professionalism. Think what you will about one institution or another, but after Heclo, no reader will be left in doubt about why it matters to think institutionally"--Provided by publisher

Comparative government : politics of industrialized and developing nations by Karl W Deutsch( Book )

9 editions published in 1981 in English and Undetermined and held by 283 WorldCat member libraries worldwide