The Possibility of a Rational Strategy of Moral Persuasion

Ethics ◽  
1974 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 185-200 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. F. M. Hunter
Keyword(s):  
Moral Persuasion

A Question of Censorship: Science or Moral Persuasion?

1977 ◽  
Vol 22 (8) ◽  
pp. 579-580
Author(s):  
CHRIS B. PASCAL
Keyword(s):  
Moral Persuasion

Strategic groups and local railway development in China

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 363-374
Author(s):  
Karl Yan
Keyword(s):  
Strategic Groups ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Party Leadership ◽  
Strategic Group ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Government Documents ◽  
Principal Finding ◽  
Archival Work ◽  
Moral Persuasion ◽  
Municipal Level

PurposeWhat are the mechanisms through which Chinese municipal leaders overcome implementation breakdown? This study, through process tracing, archival work and semi-structured interviews, examines the implementation of three sub-municipal-level railway projects involving the same principals and agents over the same period of time.Design/methodology/approachThe analysis was guided by the hypothesis that political coordination and the exercise of political and Party leadership played an indispensable role in the two cases of successful policy implementation, and its absence accounts for the case of implementation breakdown.FindingsThe principal finding is that an informal “strategic group” was created to “herd” cadres to overcome the problem of implementation. Herding here refers to the idea that Party leadership, through the use of moral persuasion, encourages cadres moving towards a desired common goal and direction.Research limitations/implicationsThis study is limited in the number of secondary resources (government documents and government and media releases) available to the field interviewees, which the author heavily relied on to complete the study.Originality/valueBuilding on the conceptual work of “strategic groups” by Thomas Heberer, Anna Ahlers, and Gunter Schubert, this study makes an empirical contribution by tracing the process through which an informal strategic group exercises its power to overcome implementation breakdown.

‘A Kind of Magic’: Theatre, Transportation, and Moral Persuasion

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 7-27
Author(s):  
M. B. Willard ◽  
Jennifer Kokai
Keyword(s):  
Moral Persuasion

scholarly journals Moral Persuasion and the Diversity of Fictions

2013 ◽  
Vol 94 (3) ◽  
pp. 269-289 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shen-yi Liao
Keyword(s):  
Moral Persuasion

Seeing reason or seeing costs? The United States, counterterrorism, and the human rights of foreigners

2021 ◽  
pp. 135406612110631
Author(s):  
Monika Heupel ◽  
Caiden Heaphy ◽  
Janina Heaphy
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Human Rights ◽  
Cost Benefit ◽  
The United States ◽  
Human Rights Violations ◽  
Strategic Learning ◽  
Targeted Killing ◽  
Counter Terrorism ◽  
Moral Persuasion ◽  
Mass Surveillance

It is well known that in the wake of 9/11, the United States committed various extraterritorial human rights violations, that is, human rights violations against foreigners outside of its territory. What is less known is that the United States has gradually introduced safeguards that are, at least on paper, meant to prevent its counter-terrorism policies from causing harm to foreigners abroad or, at least, to mitigate such harm. Based on three case studies on the development of safeguards related to torture, targeted killing, and mass surveillance, we show that two mechanisms, coercion and strategic learning, deployed either on their own or in combination, can account for the development of such safeguards. By contrast, we found no evidence of a third mechanism, moral persuasion, having any direct effect. In other words, US policymakers opt to introduce such safeguards either when they face pressure from other states, courts, or civil society that makes immediate action necessary or when they anticipate that not introducing them will, at a later date, result in prohibitively high costs. We did not find evidence of US policymakers establishing safeguards because they deemed them morally appropriate. From this we conclude that, although the emerging norm that states have extraterritorial (and not just domestic) human rights obligations may not have been internalized by key US policymakers, it nevertheless has a regulative effect on them insofar as the fact that relevant others believe in the norm restricts their leeway and influences their cost–benefit calculations.

Screen Stories: Emotion and the Ethics of Engagement

Projections ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 79-85
Author(s):  
Carl Plantinga
Keyword(s):  
Media Studies ◽  
Narrative Structure ◽  
Recent Book ◽  
Narrative Paradigm ◽  
Dominant Response ◽  
Engagement Theory ◽  
Long Form ◽  
Film And Media Studies ◽  
Ethical Thinking ◽  
Moral Persuasion

In this overview and discussion of my recent book, I outline its major topics and arguments and ruminate on its purpose, its implications, and possible objections to the very idea of an ethics of screen stories. Screen stories are narratives that appear on screens, and in this book I focus on long-form screen stories. The book has three parts. Part I develops a theory of the persuasive or rhetorical power of screen stories. Part 2 argues that while one dominant response to that power in film and media studies has been what I call “estrangement theory,” it is in fact an “engagement theory” that offers more promise for the development of an ethics of screen storytelling. Part 3 examines some of the contours of engagement, or, in other words, some of the means by which screen stories engage the viewer in ethical thinking and moral persuasion. There, I focus on character engagement, narrative structure (and especially endings), and narrative paradigm scenarios.

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