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" The public consists of all those who are affected by the indirect consequences of transactions to such an extent that it is deemed necessary to have those consequences systematically cared for. "
The Practice of American Public Policymaking - Page 8
by Selden Biggs, Lelia B. Helms - 2006 - 530 pages
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The Public and Its Problems

John Dewey - Democracy - 1927 - 240 pages
..."private" is defined in opposition to "official," a private person being one deprived of public position. The public consists of all those who are affected...who look out for and take care of the interests thus affected. Since those who are indirectly affected are not direct participants in the transactions in...
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The Philosophy of John Dewey, Volume 10

John Dewey - Philosophy - 1928 - 602 pages
..."private" is defined in opposition to "official," a private person being one deprived of public position. The public consists of all those who are affected...who look out for and take care of the interests thus affected. Since those who are indirectly affected are not direct participants in the transactions in...
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Democratic Theories and the Constitution

Martin Edelman - Law - 1984 - 416 pages
...rather, there are a series of independent, though often overlapping, associations called publics. A public "consists of all those who are affected by...have those consequences systematically cared for." 7 A public is a natural, spontaneous human organism, growing out of the interactions of human beings....
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John Dewey: Political theory and social practice

J. E. Tiles - Education - 1992 - 448 pages
...According to Dewey, a public includes, all of those who are affected by the consequences of actions to such an extent that it is deemed necessary to have those consequences systematically cared for.53 Dewey never supplies us with criteria for deciding whether or not particular consequences are...
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John Dewey and American Democracy

Robert Brett Westbrook, Robert B. Westbrook - Biography & Autobiography - 1991 - 596 pages
...important as to need control, whether by inhibition or promotion." He therefore defined the "public" as "all those who are affected by the indirect consequences...have those consequences systematically cared for." In organizing themselves to deal with the indirect consequences of associated action, publics formed...
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The Masterless: Self & Society in Modern America

Wilfred M. McClay - History - 1994 - 386 pages
...affect-related, more purely operational definition of the public: it was the aggregation of all individuals "affected by the indirect consequences of transactions...have those consequences systematically cared for." But the implications were the same. For him the state was the institutional expression of the public...
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Reconstructing Political Pluralism

Avigail I. Eisenberg - Political Science - 1995 - 226 pages
...of the indirect consequences of a transaction that takes place within society. It "consists of all who are affected by the indirect consequences of transactions...necessary to have those consequences systematically cared for."6' This definition was intended to provide a practical means of distinguishing the public from...
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Understanding John Dewey: Nature and Cooperative Intelligence

James Campbell - Philosophy - 1995 - 328 pages
...existence a public with "a common interest in controlling these consequences" (LW 2:314). A public is thus "all those who are affected by the indirect consequences of transactions" to such an extent that they realize the existence of the problem and determine it "necessary to have those consequences systematically...
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A Preface to Theology

W. Clark Gilpin - Religion - 1996 - 248 pages
...consequences of acts are so extensive as to require control, whether by inhibition or promotion. In this view, "the public consists of all those who are affected...have those consequences systematically cared for." The industrial era has so enormously expanded and complicated these indirect consequences that there...
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John Dewey and the High Tide of American Liberalism

Alan Ryan - History - 1995 - 426 pages
...not perform. Dewey's definition has never satisfied anyone, but it served his purpose fairly well. "The public consists of all those who are affected...systematically cared for. Officials are those who look out for the public and take care of the interests thus affected."31 How this was supposed to illuminate the...
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