Subservient, separative or generative?
state agencies like the police should be responsive to public input; they should do as they are directed by the citizenry.
Subservient
What is the doctrine?
belief or set of beliefs held and taught by a Church, political party, or other group
What are the three approaches of state-society relations?
Subservient, Separate and Generative
The state should strive toward some degree of neutrality, loyal primarily to the abstract rule of law.
Separate.
What are the two types of projects of separation?
The Project of Separation I: Liberalism and the Legal Order
The Project of Separation II: Professionalism and the Expectation of Deference
What are the goals of public discussion?
Fairness
Orderly manner
Protective of a plurality of groups
The state, with its policies, helps determine the central characteristics of communities.
Generative.
The state should build and defend a set of rights that ____________
Allow citizens a wide range of individual expression.
____________ is meant to engage police departments in the community by getting input from localized groups and then respond to the input from the groups
Community policing.
This section discusses the difficulties officers face when having to separate authority and professionalism from their citizens.
Separate.
What are the 3 principal factors as to why police see themselves as importantly separate from citizens?
A desire for protection from community meddling
A felt need for undiminished authority in the situations they confront so that their safety is also protected.
A hope to attain status via conducting themselves with standards of professional practice.
What is an example of a way that state agencies demonstrate subservience to the public?
By their willingness to respond to 911 calls when citizens are in need of assistance
Faces opposition for potentially favoring one group's interest over another. For example, minority groups might be disadvantaged or misrepresented
Subservient.
In the project of separation, the police believe that the public are too _________
Ignorant to possess any power to determine the fate of punishment that an officer should receive.
What are 3 ways in which the state could be understood as generative of a community?
State policy undergirds the conditions in which communities develop. (inequality of resources)
Discussions of governability: means by which gov’t projects are constructed, rationalized, and implemented in liberal societies. Trying to work through the freedoms or capacities of gov’t through productive ways.
Transcendent and moralized ideals such as freedom, equality, justice and opportunity in order to improve legitimacy through state reinforcement.