Ruth W. Grant CV

Journal Article Res Publica · June 1, 2024 Sexual abuse by clergymen, poisoned water, police brutality—these cases each involve two wrongs: the abuse itself and the attempt to avoid responsibility for it. Our focus is this second wrong—the cover up. Cover ups are accountability failures, and they s ... Full text Open Access Cite

Reflections on a Career

Journal Article Perspectives on Political Science · January 1, 2021 Full text Cite

Incentives and praise compared: the ethics of motivation

Journal Article International Review of Economics · March 14, 2019 Full text Cite

Accountability and Abuses of Power in World Politics

Chapter · January 1, 2017 The interdependence of states, globaliza tion of business, expansion of the scope and authority of multilateral organizations, and rapid increases in the num ber of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) have heightened concerns about the way power is used a ... Full text Cite

Homo politicus: Reflections on the passions and the interests

Conference Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology · January 1, 2016 In The Passions and the Interests, Hirschman explored a movement in 18th century thought whose aim was to shape human motivations by establishing the prominence of interests, particularly material interests, in order to diminish the negative effects of the ... Full text Cite

Locke on Education

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Locke on Education

Chapter · October 21, 2015 John Locke's Some Thoughts Concerning Education began as a series of letters to his friend, Sir Edward Clarke. Written during the same period he was writing the final draft of An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, the Thoughts was first published in 169 ... Full text Cite

Education

Chapter · March 31, 2015 This collection of 29 original essays examines the diverse scope of John Locke's contributions as a celebrated philosopher, empiricist, and father of modern political theory. ... Cite

John Locke on Custom's Power and Reason's Authority

Journal Article Review of Politics · October 2012 Cite

Strings attached: Untangling the ethics of incentives

Book · November 7, 2011 Incentives can be found everywhere--in schools, businesses, factories, and government--influencing people's choices about almost everything, from financial decisions and tobacco use to exercise and child rearing. So long as people have a choice, incentives ... Cite

Strings attached: Untangling the ethics of incentives

Generous to a Fault: Altruism and Psychic Health

Chapter · April 15, 2011 The eight essays in this volume challenge the dichotomies that usually govern how goodness has been discussed in the past: altruism versus egoism; reason versus emotion; or moral choice versus moral character. ... Cite

In Search of Goodness

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Passions and interests revisited: The psychological foundations of economics and politics

Journal Article Public Choice · December 1, 2008 Homo Politicus, Homo Oeconomicus. Can these two abstract human types meaningfully be distinguished? Is there a characteristic set of motivations that drive human beings in so far as they are political actors and a different set that drive their economic li ... Full text Cite

Ethics and Incentives: A Political Approach

Journal Article American Political Science Review · February 2006 Cite

Ethics and incentives: A political approach

Journal Article American Political Science Review · February 1, 2006 Understood within an economic framework as a form of trade, incentives appear inherently ethical; understood as a form of power, incentives seem ethically suspect. Incentives, along with coercion and persuasion, are among the ways in which some people get ... Full text Cite

Naming Evil, Judging Evil

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The Rousseauan Revolution and the Problem of Evil

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Is Humanistic Education Humanizing?

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Accountability and Abuses of Power in World Politics

Journal Article American Political Science Review · February 1, 2005 Debates about globalization have centered on calls to improve accountability to limit abuses of power in world politics. How should we think about global accountability in the absence of global democracy? Who should hold whom to account and according to wh ... Full text Cite

Ethics and Politics: Institutional Solutions and Their Limits

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Ethics in human subjects research: do incentives matter?

Journal Article The Journal of medicine and philosophy · December 2004 There is considerable confusion regarding the ethical appropriateness of using incentives in research with human subjects. Previous work on determining whether incentives are unethical considers them as a form of undue influence or coercive offer. We under ... Full text Cite

Political theory, political science, and politics

Chapter · January 1, 2004 Full text Cite

Ethics in Human Subjects Research: Do Incentives Matter?

Journal Article The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy: a forum for bioethics and philosophy of medicine · 2004 Cite

John Locke on Women and the Family

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Two treatises of government and a letter concerning toleration

Book · January 1, 2003 Among the most influential writings in the history of Western political thought, John Locke's Two Treatises of Government and A Letter Concerning Toleration remain vital to political debates today, more than three centuries after they were written. The com ... Cite

Integrity and Conscience: Nomos XL. Edited by Ian Shapiro and Robert Adams. New York: New York University Press, 1998. 340p. $50.00.

Journal Article American Political Science Review · September 1999 Full text Cite