Republican democracy : liberty, law and politics

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Republican democracy : liberty, law and politics

edited by Andreas Niederberger and Philipp Schink

Edinburgh University Press, c2013

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Paperback edition 2015

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Volume

: hardback ISBN 9780748643066

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Explores the relationship between democracy and republicanism, and its consequences. Can republican thought offer a conception of democracy that addresses the challenges it faces within contemporary political and legal theory? Here key thinkers expand upon the foundational principle of republicanism - 'freedom as non-domination' - to articulate new theoretical insights into connections between liberty, law and democratic politics, and a radically new conceptualisation of the meaning and structure of democratic institutions and procedures. Both historical and theoretical perspectives are presented, together offering an alternative to the political and legal theory of contemporary liberalism. *Features leading authors in the field of contemporary republicanism including Philip Pettit, John Ferejohn, Rainer Forst, James Bohman, Cecile Laborde, Jack N. Rakove, John P. McCormick and Richard Bellamy.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction
  • Andreas Niederberger & Philipp Schink
  • Part 1: Classic Republicanism and Democracy
  • 1. The Tension Between Law and Politics in the Modern Republican Tradition, Marco Geuna, Associate Professor of History of Political Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Milan
  • 2. The Idea of a Kantian Republicanism, Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Professor of Philosophy at the Johann Wolfang Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main
  • 3. Impotence, Perspicuity, and a Government of Laws: Madison's Critique of Republican Legislation, Jack N. Rakove, W.R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University
  • Part 2: Democracy and Politics
  • 4. Political Republicanism, John P. McCormick, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago
  • 5. Alternative Conceptions of Republicanism: Legal Consequences, John Ferejohn, was Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and has been a regular visiting Professor at NYU Law School from 1993 to the present
  • 6. A Republican Conception of Justice, Rainer Forst, Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/M
  • 7. Legal Formations and Democratic Citizens in Republican Theory, Galya B. Ruffer, founder of the Center for Forced Migration Studies at the Buffet Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern University and the Director of the International Studies Program
  • 8. Neorepublicanism and Global Justice: Extram rempublicam nulla iustitia?, Cecile Laborde, Professor of Political Theory at the University College London
  • Part 3: Democracy and Law
  • 9. A Republican Rule of Law?, Philipp Schink, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main
  • 10. Should Republicans Believe in Rights Based Constitutional Judicial Review?, Richard Bellamy, Professor of Political Science, UCL
  • 11. Republicanism and Transnational Democracy, Andreas Niederberger, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main (Germany)
  • 12. Living without Freedom: The Rule of Law, James Bohman, Danforth I Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Professor of International Studies at St Louis University
  • Part 4: Conclusion
  • 13. Two Concepts of Republican Law, Liberty and Politics, Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University.
Volume

: paperback ISBN 9781474403047

Description

This book critically assesses conceptions of democracy in different republican traditions. This book explores the historical and theoretical relationships between democracy and republicanism, and their consequences. It expands on the foundational principle of republicanism, putting forward new insights into connections between liberty, law and democratic politics, and a radically new conceptualisation of the meaning and structure of democratic institutions and procedures. It includes contributions from Philip Pettit, John Ferejohn, Rainer Forst, James Bohman, Cecile Laborde, Jack N. Rakove and John P. McCormick.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction, Andreas Niederberger and Philipp Schink
  • 1. The Tension between Law and Politics in the Modern Republican Tradition, Marco Geuna
  • 2. Impotence, Perspicuity, and the Rule of Law: James Madison's Critique of Republican Legislation, Jack Rakove
  • 3. Kant, Madison and the Problem of Transnational Order: Popular Sovereignty in Multilevel Systems, James Bohman
  • 4. Republicanism and Democracy, John P. McCormick
  • 5. Two Views of the City: Republicanism and Law, John Ferejohn
  • 6. A Kantian Republican Conception of Justice as Non Domination, Rainer Forst
  • 7. Two Republican Traditions, Philip Pettit
  • 8. Freedom, Control and the State, Philipp Schink
  • 9. Legal Modes and Democratic Citizens in Republican Theory, Galya Benarieh Ruffer
  • 10. Rights, Republicanism and Democracy, Richard Bellamy
  • 11. Republicanism and Global Justice: a Sketch, Cecile Laborde
  • 12. Republicanism and Transnational Democracy, Andreas Niederberger
  • List of Contributors.

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