Overview
- Interdisciplinary in nature, integrating philosophy, political science, law etc. to analyze public issues
- Focuses on analyzing social values in public policy in the East-West context of Hong Kong
- Reflects on public affairs and policy issues from a social values perspective, offering valuable reading and reference material for citizenship education
- Engages readers in interactive learning concerning citizenship education at the societal level by stimulating reflection, discussion and the motivation to act
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Governance and Citizenship in Asia (GOCIA)
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Citizenship, Social Values and Public Policy
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Front Matter
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Keywords
About this book
public policy in Hong Kong.”
– Professor Sonny Lo Shiu Hing
“Public policy both reflects and shapes social values and social norms. However, the so-
cial values and ethical dimensions of public policy are often left implicit and unexplored
in policy analysis and policy formulation. The big questions – what kind of society do
we want to create? What is at stake here? Whose values? – are debated and discussed
in some other context which is more distant from the applied world ofpolicymaking.
This book takes a different position and puts ethical issues and social values up front in
an exploration of a number of key public policy issues in Hong Kong. In doing so, the
book makes a very timely intervention in Hong Kong’s increasingly contentious public
affairs and makes an important contribution to the general literature.”
– Professor Ray Forrest
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kam Por Yu is currently Director of the General Education Centre of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He has been an Associate Professor in the Department of Public and Social Administration of the City University of Hong Kong and a Research Fellow in the Harvard School of Public Health of Harvard University. His latest publications include several books on Confucian ethics and practical ethics, as well as a series of papers on the Confucian views on war, peace, harmony, civility, and pluralistic values.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ethical Dilemmas in Public Policy
Book Subtitle: The Dynamics of Social Values in the East-West Context of Hong Kong
Editors: Betty Yung, Yu Kam Por
Series Title: Governance and Citizenship in Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-0437-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-0435-3Published: 14 March 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-10-9162-9Published: 25 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-0437-7Published: 04 March 2016
Series ISSN: 2365-6255
Series E-ISSN: 2365-6263
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 212
Topics: Administration, Organization and Leadership, Public Administration, Educational Policy and Politics