Document Type : Correspondence
The five commentaries on our two-part analysis of the healthy societies literature agree with our diagnosis and largely with one another. Liwanag and Howard name the problem socio-political inertia; Khalil calls for a shift from technical fixes to a justice-oriented paradigm; Fisher relocates the foundations of a healthy society to the community arena and the public-interest duty of the democratic state; Di Ruggiero shows that the field measures problems rather than the actions and governance that would address them.1-4 ...(Read more...)