ABSTRACT This study is focused on the analysis to establish civicness-laden public management in association with non-profit organizations. Through the efforts to build the model structure, we can study the main dimension which is required to pay more attention in order to strengthen the process of civicness-laden public management, and investigate into the problem to improve the public administration capability of the government under cooperation between the public sectors (government) and the private sectors (non-profit organizations). Speaking in details, the targets of this study include: (1) To investigate the theoretic meaning of the establishment of civicness-laden public management from documentary references. (2) To study the problems in connection with the establishment of civicness-laden public management. (3) To state the parameters of cause and result under the role and function played by non-profit organizations in civicness-laden public management. (4) To establish a theoretic structure for the study of civicness-laden public management in association with non-profit organizations. (5) To describe in details the main dimension and guideline for each parameter and also to provide the methods and strategy for fulfillment. We expect that this study of public management will enable people to recognize, internalize and vitalize again the issues such as the quality of citizens and cooperation between the public sectors and private sectors, and will also open an new realm and area for public management. In this study, we also hope that the government can adjust the traditional role as a provider to a role to implement criteria or reinforcement gradually, especially to exert the function of ¡§good governance¡¨ so that the private sectors may have more opportunity to offer and participate in social services in a wider range. As to the non-profit organizations, they can make full play of their role function, for example, they will be more active and positive to play the role function of expansion and innovation, the role function of improvement and promotion, and the role function of extensive social participation. In the meantime, it is also required to promote character and re-socialized education for people as well as to maintain the ideas of democratic society and various positive value judgments through the cooperation and interaction between the government and non-profit organizations. In this way, both can supplement each other to build a cooperative network and create a value-added and everlasting administration model so that the government and private sectors may produce ¡§integrated advantages¡¨ to achieve the success of civicness-laden public management. Key words: civicness-laden public management, non-profit organizations.

Contemporary attitudes in affluent Western societies are characterised by a growing emphasis on individual freedom. What, then, does this commitment to liberty entail for our openness to diversity; and ultimately for liberal democracy? Previous research on popular attitudes, for example by Ronald Inglehart, tends to assume that valuing freedom entails an encouragement of a plurality of life-styles. This thesis, by contrast, argues that there are several ideals of freedom in public opinion; ideals that may have opposing consequences for our permissiveness towards ways of life that differ from our own. The introductory essay in this book suggests that Isaiah Berlin’s theory of positive and negative freedom provides a fruitful analytical framework, which helps theorise and empirically nuance our picture of popular ideals of freedom. Essay I goes on to present a novel, psychological, interpretation of Berlin’s Two Concepts of Liberty. This essay also suggests that Berlin was critical not only of enlightened ideals of positive liberty, but also of romantic ones, which might be even more widespread today. Essay II then applies Berlin’s framework to contemporary survey data. Through confirmatory factor and regression analyses, this essay demonstrates that Berlin’s negative-positive distinction does in fact hold also in popular opinion; and that the two dimensions have rather different effects on moral and legal permissiveness. Essay III, finally, revisits a recent example of disrespect in the name of liberty: the Danish cartoon controversy. This essay develops the concept of ‘romantic liberalism’, thereby deepening our knowledge of romantic ideals of positive liberty, and their particularly disrespectful tendencies. Drawing on Isaiah Berlin, and his critique of positive liberty, the essays in this thesis together suggest that it is crucial for liberal democracy to recognise the existence of treacherous liberties: ideals that lead their supporters to ridicule, condemn, or even prohibit ways of life that differ from their own – all in the name of liberty. / The Impact of Religion