Americans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people's time for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves.At the same time, political involvement in the United States is at an all-time low, and although political life should help us to care better, people see caring as unsupported by public life and deem the concerns of politics as remote from their lives. Caring Democracy argues that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our fundamental values and commitments, from a caring perspective. What it means to be a citizen...
Americans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people's time for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, an...
The 2015 winner of the Brown Democracy Medal, Joan C. Tronto, argues in Who Cares? that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our own fundamental values and commitments, from a caring perspective. Asserting that Americans are facing a "caring deficit" that there are simply too many demands on our time to care adequately for children, elderly people, and ourselves she asks us to reconsider how we allocate care responsibilities.
At the same time, while democratic politics should help citizens to care better, most people see caring as unsupported by public life and...
The 2015 winner of the Brown Democracy Medal, Joan C. Tronto, argues in Who Cares? that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as ...
