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ON THE PEOPLE'S TERMS
A REPUBLICAN THEORY AND MODEL OF DEMOCRACY

By:

Philip Pettit

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0521182123

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9780521182126

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Publisher:

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

6 December, 2012

Series:

The Seeley Lectures

Pages:

352

Description:

A novel, republican theory of the point of democracy, providing a model of the institutions that republican democracy would require.

Synopsis:

According to republican theory, we are free persons to the extent that we are protected and secured in the same fundamental choices, on the same public basis, as one another. But there is no public protection or security without a coercive state. Does this mean that any freedom we enjoy is a superficial good that presupposes a deeper, political form of subjection? Philip Pettit addresses this crucial question in On the People's Terms. He argues that state coercion will not involve individual subjection or domination insofar as we enjoy an equally shared form of control over those in power. This claim may seem utopian but it is supported by a realistic model of the institutions that might establish such democratic control. Beginning with a fresh articulation of republican ideas, Pettit develops a highly original account of the rationale of democracy, breathing new life into democratic theory.

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Cambridge University Press

Prizes:

Short-listed for David Easton Prize 2014

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