Howard A. Husock

Gebundenes Buch

Who Killed Civil Society?

The Rise of Big Government and Decline of Bourgeois Norms

Beschreibung

Vexing social issues such as the opioid epidemic, criminal violence, and chronic unemployment are the target of social programs Americans fund with their tax dollars. Husock argues that over the past century, the U.S. has lost sight of the more powerful antidote to these problems: positive social norms.

Autor

Howard Husock is vice president for policy research at the Manhattan Institute, where he is also a contributing editor to City Journal. He is the author of America's Trillion-Dollar Housing Mistake (Ivan R. Dee, 2003), and Philanthropy Under Fire (Encounter Books, 2013). He is a longtime print and television journalist and documentary filmmaker, whose work for WGBH, Boston won three Emmy Awards. In 1987-2006 he served as director of case studies in public policy and management at the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was also an adjunct lecturer in public management and a fellow at the Hauser Center on Civil Society. He was a member of the board of directors of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (2013-18).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Encounter Books, USA
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. September 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 420g
• ISBN-13: 9781641770583
• ISBN-10: 1641770589
• Artikelnr.: 55173139