Showing posts with label political theory. Show all posts
Showing posts with label political theory. Show all posts
Friday, August 10, 2012

Rawlsian Legislatures: A Modest Proposal

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(Attention conservation notice: various harebrained schemes I cooked up preparing for a seminar on Rawls that appear to structurally mimic...
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Monday, August 06, 2012

Mixed Constitutions vs. Mixed Economies (or, Ancient and Modern Liberalisms)

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(Attention conservation notice: Inspired by a student’s comment a while back, this has languished in my drafts folder. Contains speculative ...
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Monday, November 14, 2011

Exit, Voice, and Democracy

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Speaking of exit, voice, and domination , here's a very interesting paper by Mark E. Warren  in the latest APSR: Voting with Your Feet: ...
Sunday, September 25, 2011

On the Meaning of Political Support

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In the closing pages of Eichmann in Jerusalem , Hannah Arendt notoriously claimed that “politics is not like the nursery; in politics obed...
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Thursday, September 22, 2011

Just War Theory and Other Philosophical Responses to Warfare (A Footnote on Aquinas, Erasmus, and Machiavelli)

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(Warning: a rambling disquisition about the point of just war theory in history. Tries to articulate some thoughts I've been nursing f...
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Sunday, July 31, 2011

Exit, Voice, and Legitimacy: Responses to Domination in Political Thought

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Albert O. Hirschmann’s Exit, Voice, and Loyalty: Responses to Decline in Firms, Organizations, and States is a “generative” book: the ideas...
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Monday, July 11, 2011

Does the History of Political Thought Matter?

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(Most of this was written months ago, then allowed to gather electronic dust. But the occasion is right to post it, since today is the first...
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