The best kept secrets in government : a report to President Bill Clinton (SuDoc PRVP 42.2:SE 2) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0160487706 ISBN 13: 9780160487705

Synopsis

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1918 edition. Excerpt: ...beyond one of expediency and compromise. It believes that a too paternalistic government amounts to an "under-coddling of the lazy, the thriftless and the idle," and will prove detrimental to self-reliance, justice and equity. On the other hand, the Labour party has a definite theory of the increasing necessity for State interference in the interest of social welfare. Such a view receives wide endorsement by public opinion. The working philosophy of the majority of Australians is a "belief in the right of every citizen to claim state aid (both with money and with legislation), towards his efforts to develop the state's resources, and a vague idea that state aid to some extent justifies state control." 1 The more thoughtful of them feel that social welfare can be the only valid purpose, and therefore the only valid justification of a democratic government. In collective ownership they realize their personality as fully as in private ownership, which the present social system makes impossible for so many of them. Their individuality is strengthened by the sense that they have the right to demand the services which a democratic government, aiming at social welfare, offers them. Those charged with the administration of affairs are the servants of the people, who in return have a responsibility for the efficiency, honesty and thoroughness of their administration, the nature and character of their actions, and the maintenance, under conditions of prudent economy, of these services. Frequent extensions of the sphere of social control prevent public opinion from stagnating and 1 Quarterly Review, October, 1911, article, "The Australian Commonwealth." from causing society to lose the benefit of an extended sphere of...

Edition details

• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0160487706
• ISBN 13: 9780160487705
• Binding: Paperback