Book Reviews
Summer Reading: The Righteous Mind VII: Moral Foundations
<br>Jonathan Haidt in his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion/dp/03073…; target="”_blank”"><i>The
Summer Reading: The Righteous Mind VI: Fairness and Moral Disgust
<b>Moral Disgust</b><br>
In his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion/dp/03073…; target="”_blank”"><i>The
Summer Reading: The Righteous Mind V: Relationships in a WEIRD Culture
You may not have realized it, but if you are reading this, you are
most likely WEIRD, that is, a member of a culture that is Western,
educated, industrialized, rich, and democratic. The features of WEIRDness
can be summed up in the following sentence from Jonathan Haidt's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion/dp/03073…; target="”_blank”"><i>The
Summer Reading: The Righteous Mind IV: Accountability
One section of Haidt's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion/dp/03073…; target="”_blank”"><i>The
Summer Reading: The Righteous Mind III: The Social Nature of Moral Judgment
<b>The Ethics of Gut Reactions</b><br>
According to Jonathan Haidt's book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion/dp/03073…; target="”_blank”"><i>The
Summer Reading: The Righteous Mind II - Individualistic vs. Sociocentric Societies
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In his book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion/dp/03073…; target="”_blank”"><i>The
Summer Reading: The Righteous Mind I
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Jonathan Haidt's <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Righteous-Mind-Divided-Politics-Religion/dp/03073…; target="”_blank”"><i>The
Righteous Mind</a></i>: <i>Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and
Religion</i> (Pantheon, 2012) is a book that does not, from its
title, appear to have much value for government ethics. But Haidt's
Summer Reading: Judith Shklar's "The Faces of Injustice"
I recently read Judith N. Shklar's book <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=vfqbGgwEIQkC&printsec=frontcover&dq=fa…; target="”_blank”"><i>The Faces of Injustice</i></a> (Yale U.P., 1990). This excellent essay
about the difference between misfortune and injustice would not
Theories of a Legislator's Role That Lie Beneath Definitions of Corruption
University of Maryland Law School professor Deborah Hellman recently
put the draft of her law review article, "<a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2021188" target="”_blank”">Defining
Corruption and Constitutionalizing Democracy</a>" (forth. Mich. L.
Rev (Vol. 111)), on SSRN. The core argument of her paper is that
defining legislative corruption requires a theory of the
Spring Reading: Corrupt Cities
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<a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=Bju8SS6mMjgC&dq=corrupt+cities&source=…
Cities: A Practical Guide to Cure and Prevention</i></a>, a book by
Robert Klitgaard, Ronald Maclean-Abaroa, and H. Lindsey Parris
(Institute for Contemporary Studies, 2000), is an excellent study
and analysis of municipal anti-corruption efforts primarily outside