Civil Servants and Whistle-Blowing: Loyal Neutrality and/or Democratic Ideal?
This chapter, by a political philosopher, opens a preliminary investigation of the indirect and complex relationship between the politicisation of the civil service and the incidence of whistle-blowing civil servants. The principal question is whether politicisation generates stresses on the idea and self-image of a neutral and professional civil servant and whether this may be the cause of the paradoxical stance of affirming the traditional democratic role of the civil service by speaking up, while thereby breaking the role-boundaries of that same tradition. This is a complex and novel idea, and I attempt to lay bare some important aspects of this complexity. My hypothesis, which needs empirical research from social scientists, is that any trend to whistle-blowing civil servants may itself be symptomatic of politicisation.
Committee to Protect Journalists
Assignment asking students to go to the Committee to Protect Journalists' website, read several stories and write a reaction to the web site, incorporating examples from the stories read.
A survey of aquaculture production economics and management
Abstract The literature on production economics and management of fish culture has grown as aquaculture has matured as a commercial industry. Salmon, catfish, shrimp and trout are the focus of this literature survey as a reflection of the volume of research that has been completed on these species and their importance in US production and world trade. In addition, a discussion of low resource production systems is included that is dominated by tilapia and carp culture systems. A brief overview of the principles of aquaculture production economics and management is presented followed by a review of economic studies.