TY - JOUR
AU - Sawhill, Isabel V.
AB - 330 I POLITICAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY public officials purport to act is fraudulent obtai ly ned (or fraudulently declared), the legitimac of y their action s and of government itself is seriously undermined. Accordingly, Yudof proposes a theory of how government shoul behave d as a participant in the polit ­ ical debate. In essence, Yudofs ideal government is not unlike the professor who abjure s lecturing (an authoritarian practice) and debates with the student in s a manner that both arms them to disagree and treat them s with the respect due to equal, autonomous, rational persons. Indeed , respect for the intelligence and judgment of citizens, whether they de­ serve it or not, is the principle that unifies the author ’s many proposals for reform. Yudofs ideal government would not pretend to be imparti al or view all ideas as if they are of equal value; it would plunge into the politic proces al with s as much vigor as anyone else. However, because it is also a keeper of that process it , would not be allowed to ex­ ploit its power by manipulating the information needed to maintain an intelligen debate t or by unfairly turning 
TI - Beyond the Safety Net: Reviving the Promise of Opportunity in America, by Sar A. Levitan and Clifford M. Johnson
JF - Political Science Quarterly
DO - 10.2307/2150671
DA - 1985-06-15
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/beyond-the-safety-net-reviving-the-promise-of-opportunity-in-america-1wrruTk0oE
SP - 330
EP - 331
VL - 100
IS - 2
DP - DeepDyve
ER -