Making Others Conditions Our Own: Faith-Based Initiatives and Other Mediating Structures as Public Policy

Abstract

This paper will briefly examine efforts by the state to address social welfare problems and will subsequently argue that mediating structures, specifically faith-based organizations, do a better job of addressing these problems by creating and sustaining social capital, and therefore ought to be encouraged and employed as public policy. Specifically the Peter Berger and Richard Neuhaus article, To Empower People: The Role of Mediating Structures in Public Policy, has provided a valuable framework for much of this analysis.
Published
2017-02-24
How to Cite
. Making Others Conditions Our Own: Faith-Based Initiatives and Other Mediating Structures as Public Policy. Hinckley Journal of Politics, [S.l.], v. 7, feb. 2017. ISSN 2163-0798. Available at: <https://epubs.utah.edu/index.php/HJP/article/view/3760>. Date accessed: 08 dec. 2024.
Section
Student Papers