Teun J. Dekker

Paying Our High Public Officials (eBook, ePUB)

Evaluating the Political Justifications of Top Wages in the Public Sector

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In almost every liberal democratic society, an issue that is a topic of constant and passionate public discussion is how much that country's ministers, legislators, senior civil servants, and senior judges should be paid. Paying Our High Public Officials examines the political discourse concerning this question in 17 liberal democracies. Based on many hundreds of parliamentary debates, newspaper articles, speeches, as well as reports by think tanks and high commissions of state, the book identifies seven central arguments that occur in all these societies, translates them into the language of analytical philosophy, and then rigorously evaluates them. This approach contributes to a better understanding of this controversy and may result in better-justified and more legitimate conclusions concerning which policy to adopt.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 236
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Januar 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135131265
• Artikelnr.: 42828320

Autorenporträt

Teun J. Dekker is currently Assistant Professor of Political Philosophy and Vice-Dean of Academic Affairs at University College Maastricht - Maastricht University. He has held visiting research positions at Amherst College and Yale University. He has had articles published in Inquiry, Ethics and Economics, The Journal of Value Inquiry, The Canadian Philosophical Review, Imprints, and Politics, Philosophy and Economics.

Inhaltsangabe

1: The Problem of High Public Officials' Remuneration. 2: Analytical
Discourse Evaluation: A Manifesto. 3: The It's Taxpayers' Money Argument.
4: The Compensating Benefits and Broad Comparability Argument. 5: The
Motivation Selection Argument. 6: The Live Like Common People Argument. 7:
The Example Argument. 8: The Optimal Performance Argument. 9: The
Corruption Argument. 10. Conclusion: Three Questions, Two Visions.