Equality Freedom And Democracy

Author : Leonardo Morlino,Daniela Piana,Mario Quaranta,Francesco Raniolo,Cecilia Emma Sottilotta,Claudius Wagemann
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780198813873

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Equality, Freedom, and Democracy by Leonardo Morlino,Daniela Piana,Mario Quaranta,Francesco Raniolo,Cecilia Emma Sottilotta,Claudius Wagemann Pdf

"In the intellectual life of a scholar, it is not infrequent for a research question to rattle around in the back of the mind for years. Then all of a sudden comes the realisation that the time is ripe to tackle the topic, and that an attempt has to be made at presenting, discussing and empirically analysed it. I will not go into the reasons why I think that this is now the right moment to address the question on the implementation of the two traditional democratic values, and their transformations over recent years, partly as a consequence of the economic crisis, and its prospective sustainability. Maybe in his Discorsi Machiavelli was only right when he recommends going back to values in times of crisis. There are, of course, other objective and subjective reasons, and the former will emerge directly and indirectly in the first chapter"--.

Author : Leonardo Morlino,Daniela Piana,Mario Quaranta,Francesco Raniolo,Cecilia Emma Sottilotta,Claudius Wagemann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Democracy
ISBN : LCCN:2021758698

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Equality, Freedom, and Democracy by Leonardo Morlino,Daniela Piana,Mario Quaranta,Francesco Raniolo,Cecilia Emma Sottilotta,Claudius Wagemann Pdf

Author : Michael Goodhart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135431952

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Democracy as Human Rights by Michael Goodhart Pdf

Is global democracy possible? The most prominent institutional manifestations of this concept-the UN, WTO, IMF and World Bank-have been skewered as cloistered anti-democratic institutions by anti-globalization activists. Meanwhile, proponents of globalization advocate reforming these institutions to make them more transparent. Michael Goodhart argues that both views fail to recognize the complex link between modern democracy and the sovereign state and the degree to which globalization challenges the modern conceptualization of democracy. Original and historically informed, Democracy as Human Rights provides a carefully argued theory of democracy in which traditional representative government is supported by global institutions designed to guarantee fundamental human rights.

Author : Keith Dixon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 75 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2010-01-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135155940

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Freedom and Equality (Routledge Revivals) by Keith Dixon Pdf

Unashamedly polemical, this reissue of Freedom & Equality, first published in 1986, presents a strong and persuasively argued case for democratic socialism. In contrast to many recent books justifying conservatism and varieties of Marxism, Keith Dixon defends the two great principles underpinning democratic socialism – freedom and equality. He aims both to restore the idea of freedom to its proper place in the political vocabulary of the left and to defend a stark version of freedom as absence of constraint. Only this version of freedom, he argues, is consistent with the proper defence of civil liberties. Dixon also defends radical egalitarianism from its critics, who either repudiate its full force or reject it out of hand. He believes that freedom and equality are potentially realizable socialist goals, that democratic socialism is not necessarily linked with fraternalism, and – above all – that it should be based upon a firm and consistent conception of individuality.

Author : Roger Trigg
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-05
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780191613371

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Equality, Freedom, and Religion by Roger Trigg Pdf

Is religious freedom being curtailed in pursuit of equality, and the outlawing of discrimination? Is enough effort made to accommodate those motivated by a religious conscience? All rights matter but at times the right to put religious beliefs into practice increasingly takes second place in the law of different countries to the pursuit of other social priorities. The right to freedom of belief and to manifest belief is written into all human rights charters. In the United States religious freedom is sometimes seen as 'the first freedom'. Yet increasingly in many jurisdictions in Europe and North America, religious freedom can all too easily be 'trumped' by other rights. Roger Trigg looks at the assumptions that lie behind the subordination of religious liberty to other social concerns, especially the pursuit of equality. He gives examples from different Western countries of a steady erosion of freedom of religion. The protection of freedom of worship is often seen as sufficient, and religious practices are separated from the beliefs which inspire them. So far from religion in general, and Christianity in particular, providing a foundation for our beliefs in human dignity and human rights, religion is all too often seen as threat and a source of conflict, to be controlled at all costs. The challenge is whether any freedom can preserved for long, if the basic human right to freedom of religious belief and practice is dismissed as of little account, with no attempt to provide any reasonable accommodation. Given the central role of religion in human life, unnecessary limitations on its expression are attacks on human freedom itself.

Author : Francis M. Wilhoit
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2023-04-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000939934

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Quest for Equality in Freedom by Francis M. Wilhoit Pdf

This book describes and analyzes the gravest crisis now facing constitutional democracy: the fundamental conflict between liberal and egalitarian values. Particularly stressed in this analysis are such aspects of the crisis as its origins, ideological tensions, and public policy ramifications.

Author : Jasper Doomen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 2802746235

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Freedom and Equality in a Liberal Democratic State by Jasper Doomen Pdf

This study explores freedom and equality as necessary constituents of a liberal democratic state. At the same time, equality and freedom conflict in various respects. It is examined how such conflicts may optimally be resolved while taking seriously the interests involved. These inquiries have far-reaching consequences for the justification of the liberal democratic state. Equal rights are generally considered to be an integral part of a liberal democratic state, but on what foundation are such rights based ? Various attempts have been made to provide such a foundation from a moral framework. Some important and influential positions are examined critically and an alternative perspective is offered. "Equality" is approached straightforwardly, without appealing to obscure notions while seeking an outcome that may universally be accepted. Rationality is an important feature in this respect. The question to what extent freedom should be allowed to citizens is another important issue. Granting citizens freedom is beneficial for the liberal democratic state as a whole and for citizens themselves. The limits of freedom must, however, be defined carefully. The search for a simple solution is balanced against the need to do the complexities of individual cases justice. In addition, it is not the task of a liberal democratic state to influence people’s convictions concerning equality ; only equal treatment should be guaranteed.

Author : Corey Brettschneider
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691171296

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When the State Speaks, What Should It Say? by Corey Brettschneider Pdf

How should a liberal democracy respond to hate groups and others that oppose the ideal of free and equal citizenship? The democratic state faces the hard choice of either protecting the rights of hate groups and allowing their views to spread, or banning their views and violating citizens' rights to freedoms of expression, association, and religion. Avoiding the familiar yet problematic responses to these issues, political theorist Corey Brettschneider proposes a new approach called value democracy. The theory of value democracy argues that the state should protect the right to express illiberal beliefs, but the state should also engage in democratic persuasion when it speaks through its various expressive capacities: publicly criticizing, and giving reasons to reject, hate-based or other discriminatory viewpoints. Distinguishing between two kinds of state action--expressive and coercive--Brettschneider contends that public criticism of viewpoints advocating discrimination based on race, gender, or sexual orientation should be pursued through the state's expressive capacities as speaker, educator, and spender. When the state uses its expressive capacities to promote the values of free and equal citizenship, it engages in democratic persuasion. By using democratic persuasion, the state can both respect rights and counter hateful or discriminatory viewpoints. Brettschneider extends this analysis from freedom of expression to the freedoms of religion and association, and he shows that value democracy can uphold the protection of these freedoms while promoting equality for all citizens.

Author : Ronald Dworkin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 532 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2002-03-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780674253780

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Sovereign Virtue by Ronald Dworkin Pdf

Equality is the endangered species of political ideals. Even left-of-center politicians reject equality as an ideal: government must combat poverty, they say, but need not strive that its citizens be equal in any dimension. In his new book Ronald Dworkin insists, to the contrary, that equality is the indispensable virtue of democratic sovereignty. A legitimate government must treat all its citizens as equals, that is, with equal respect and concern, and, since the economic distribution that any society achieves is mainly the consequence of its system of law and policy, that requirement imposes serious egalitarian constraints on that distribution. What distribution of a nation's wealth is demanded by equal concern for all? Dworkin draws upon two fundamental humanist principles--first, it is of equal objective importance that all human lives flourish, and second, each person is responsible for defining and achieving the flourishing of his or her own life--to ground his well-known thesis that true equality means equality in the value of the resources that each person commands, not in the success he or she achieves. Equality, freedom, and individual responsibility are therefore not in conflict, but flow from and into one another as facets of the same humanist conception of life and politics. Since no abstract political theory can be understood except in the context of actual and complex political issues, Dworkin develops his thesis by applying it to heated contemporary controversies about the distribution of health care, unemployment benefits, campaign finance reform, affirmative action, assisted suicide, and genetic engineering.

Author : David Schmidtz,Carmen E. Pavel
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780199989423

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The Oxford Handbook of Freedom by David Schmidtz,Carmen E. Pavel Pdf

We speak of being 'free' to speak our minds, free to go to college, free to move about; we can be cancer-free, debt-free, worry-free, or free from doubt. The concept of freedom (and relatedly the notion of liberty) is ubiquitous but not everyone agrees what the term means, and the philosophical analysis of freedom that has grown over the last two decades has revealed it to be a complex notion whose meaning is dependent on the context. The Oxford Handbook of Freedom will crystallize this work and craft the first wide-ranging analysis of freedom in all its dimensions: legal, cultural, religious, economic, political, and psychological. This volume includes 28 new essays by well regarded philosophers, as well some historians and political theorists, in order to reflect the breadth of the topic. This handbook covers both current scholarship as well as historical trends, with an overall eye to how current ideas on freedom developed. The volume is divided into six sections: conceptual frames (framing the overall debates about freedom), historical frames (freedom in key historical periods, from the ancients onward), institutional frames (freedom and the law), cultural frames (mutual expectations on our 'right' to be free), economic frames (freedom and the market), and lastly psychological frames (free will in philosophy and psychology).

Author : Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn
Publisher : Ludwig von Mises Institute
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781610160308

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Liberty or Equality by Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Pdf

Sometime in the 18th century, the word equality gained ground as a political ideal, but the idea was always vague. In this treatise, Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn argues that it reduced to one simple and very dangerous idea: equality of political power as embodied in democracy. He marshals the strongest possible case that democratic equality is the very basis not of liberty, as is commonly believed, but the total state. He uses national socialism as his prime example. He further argues the old notion of government by law is upheld in old monarchies, restrained by a noble elite. Aristocracy, not democracy, gave us liberty. On his side in this argument, he includes the whole of the old liberal tradition, and offers overwhelming evidence for his case. In our times, war and totalitarianism do indeed sail under the democratic flag. This book, capable of overturning most of what you thought you knew about political systems, was first published in 1952.

Author : Paul M. Sniderman,Joseph F. Fletcher,Philip E. Tetlock,Peter H. Russell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300069812

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The Clash of Rights by Paul M. Sniderman,Joseph F. Fletcher,Philip E. Tetlock,Peter H. Russell Pdf

Why do citizens in pluralist democracies disagree collectively about the very values they agree on individually? This provocative book highlights the inescapable conflicts of rights and values at the heart of democratic politics. Based on interviews with thousands of citizens and political decision makers, the book focuses on modern Canadian politics, investigating why a country so fortunate in its history and circumstances is on the brink of dissolution. Taking advantage of new techniques of computer-assisted interviewing, the authors explore the politics of a wide array of issues, from freedom of expression to public funding of religious schools to government wiretapping to antihate legislation, analyzing not only why citizens take the positions they do but also how easily they can be talked out of them. In the process, the authors challenge a number of commonly held assumptions about democratic politics. They show, for example, that political elites do not constitute a special bulwark protecting civil liberties; that arguments over political rights are as deeply driven by commitment to the master values of democratic politics as by failure to understand them; and that consensus on the rights of groups is inherently more fragile than on the rights of individuals.

Author : Justus Hartnack
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015025002554

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Human Rights by Justus Hartnack Pdf

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Author : Wilhelm Sjöstrand
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Equality
ISBN : UOM:39015002727751

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Freedom and Equality as Fundamental Educational Principles in Western Democracy by Wilhelm Sjöstrand Pdf

Author : Danielle Allen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780871408136

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Our Declaration: A Reading of the Declaration of Independence in Defense of Equality by Danielle Allen Pdf

Winner of the Francis Parkman Prize, Society of American Historians “A tour de force. . . . No one has ever written a book on the Declaration quite like this one.”—Gordon Wood, New York Review of Books Featured on the front page of the New York Times, Our Declaration is already regarded as a seminal work that reinterprets the promise of American democracy through our founding text. Combining a personal account of teaching the Declaration with a vivid evocation of the colonial world between 1774 and 1777, Allen, a political philosopher renowned for her work on justice and citizenship reveals our nation’s founding text to be an animating force that not only changed the world more than two-hundred years ago, but also still can. Challenging conventional wisdom, she boldly makes the case that the Declaration is a document as much about political equality as about individual liberty. Beautifully illustrated throughout, Our Declaration is an “uncommonly elegant, incisive, and often poetic primer on America’s cardinal text” (David M. Kennedy).