On the people's terms

• Verfasser: Pettit, Philip
• Titel: On the people's terms
• Titelzusatz: a republican theory and model of democracy
• Verf.angabe: Philip Pettit
• Verlagsort: Cambridge [u.a.]
• Verlag: Cambridge Univ. Press
• Jahr: 2012
• Umfang: XII, 338 S.
• Format: 24 cm
• Gesamttitel/Reihe: The Seeley lectures ; 8
• Fussnoten: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke ; Formerly CIP Uk. - Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
• Inhalt: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: the republic, old and new; 1. Freedom as non-domination; 2. Social justice; 3. Political legitimacy; 4. Democratic influence; 5. Democratic control; Conclusion: the argument, in summary.
• ISBN: 0-521-18212-3
• ISBN: 978-1-107-00511-2
• ISBN: 978-0-521-18212-6
• ISBN: 1-107-00511-6
• Schlagwörter: (s)Demokratie / (s)Theorie
• Sprache: eng
• Reproduktion: Online-Ausg.: Pettit, Philip, 1945 -: On the people's terms. - Cambridge [u.a.]: Cambridge Univ. Press, 2012. - XII, 338 S
• Reproduktion: Online-Ausg.: Pettit, Philip, 1945 -: On the people's terms. - Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012. - 1 Online-Ressource (xii, 338 Seiten)
• RVK-Notation: ME 3100
• RVK-Notation: CC 7800
• RVK-Notation: MD 4600
• Sach-SW: Republicanism
• Sach-SW: Democracy
• K10plus-PPN: 718255399

Abstract

"According to republican political theory, choosing freely requires being able to make the choice without subjection to another and freedom as a person requires being publicly protected against subjection in the exercise of basic liberties. But there is no public protection without a coercive state. And doesn't state coercion necessarily take from the freedom of the coerced? Philip Pettit addresses this question from a civic republican perspective, arguing that state interference does not involve subjection or domination if there is equally shared, popular control over government"--