Subjects of responsibility : framing personhood in modern bureaucracies /

How and why has the concept of responsibility come to pervade the fabric of American public and private life? How are ideas of responsibility instantiated in, and constituted by, the workings of social and political institutions? What place do liberal discourses of responsibility, based on the indiv...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Parker, Andrew, 1953-, Sarat, Austin, Umphrey, Martha Merrill
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press 2011.
Edition:1st ed.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt13x08jq
Table of Contents:
  • pt. 1. Responsibility, bureaucracy, and accountability in social and political life
  • pt. 2. Responsibility, risk, and insurance.