3309 TO WILLIAM I 6 February 1827 (Aet 78)

Bentham, Jeremy; O'Sullivan, Luke; Fuller, Catherine

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“…He considered Paul de Rapin's L'histoire d'Angleterre (1724-1727) to be of 'little advantage in a moral point of view', but he extolled James Mill's History of British India for its legal and political profundities. 50 In a letter to José Joaquin de Mora from 1820, he praised Mill for combining 'the amusement that history affords us' with 'political instruction'. It was a 'complete history' and 'by far the most instructive history that has ever seen the light anywhere' because it exposed the 'misconduct of English functionaries' in the colonies.…”

Section: The Past On Trialmentioning

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History and Historiography in Classical Utilitarianism, 1800–1865

Barrell

2021

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This first comprehensive account of the utilitarians' historical thought intellectually resituates their conceptions of philosophy and politics, at a time when the past acquired new significances as both a means and object of study. Drawing on published and unpublished writings - and set against the intellectual backdrops of Scottish philosophical history, German and French historicism, romanticism, positivism, and the rise of social science and scientific history - Callum Barrell recovers the depth with which Jeremy Bentham, James Mill, George Grote, and John Stuart Mill thought about history as a site of philosophy and politics. He argues that the utilitarians, contrary to their reputations as ahistorical and even antihistorical thinkers, developed complex frameworks in which to learn from and negotiate the past, inviting us to rethink the foundations of their ideas, as well as their place in - and relationship to - nineteenth-century philosophy and political thought.

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Section: The Past On Trialmentioning

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History and Historiography in Classical Utilitarianism, 1800–1865

Barrell

2021

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“…Legal scholars have long argued that open trial proceedings have numerous advantages, not just for the litigants, but for society at large. Open courts foster societal trust in authorities by (a) holding judges accountable for fair and unbiased decisions, (b) demonstrating that the rich or powerful cannot get away with violations by buying off the poor or weak, (c) fostering a public discussion of what norms and sanctions are fair, and (d) supporting the legitimacy of state authority (e.g., Bentham, 1827; Foucault, 1975; Resnik, 2006). Resnik (2006) notes that although the immediate parties to a dispute may prefer secret trials to avoid embarrassment, open trials help to reveal false claims and errors, especially those of the authorities.…”

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Distinguished Scholars Invited Essay: Are Secret Proceedings Why Longer Tenured Employees Trust Their Organizations Least?

Pearce

Klein

2017

Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies

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We address the effects of secrecy in organizational policy enforcement. First, the legal literature that explains why court proceedings are open is summarized: openness more effectively holds decision makers and claimants accountable for truthfulness and unbiased decisions, demonstrates that the rich or powerful have not bought off the weak, supports adaptation to changing norms, and enhances the legitimacy of state authority. Next, we propose that when organizational policy enforcement is kept secret from other employees, organizations lose these benefits. One reflection of these loses will be lower employee trust in their organizations the longer their tenure there. Using questionnaire data from a large U.S. governmental agency, we found that lower employee trust with tenure is incrementally linearly lower over the course of employment, not the result of an early breach of the psychological contract. This occurs for employees at all hierarchical levels but is steepest for nonsupervisory employees, suggesting that employees lack information about policy enforcement may be driving this phenomenon.

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3309 TO WILLIAM I 6 February 1827 (Aet 78)

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History and Historiography in Classical Utilitarianism, 1800–1865

History and Historiography in Classical Utilitarianism, 1800–1865

Distinguished Scholars Invited Essay: Are Secret Proceedings Why Longer Tenured Employees Trust Their Organizations Least?

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