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政治自由主义 = Political liberalism
John Rawls,俊人 万 +1 more
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The legitimacy of European Union foreign policy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the sources of legitimacy of the European Union's Common Foreign and Security Policy and suggest that as the EU has moved beyond intergovernmentalism in this poli...
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Why Cash Violates Neutrality
Joseph Heath,Vida Panitch +1 more
TL;DR: The authors argue that egalitarians who rely on cash transfers as a way of accommodating the demands of liberty do so at the expense of neutrality, and argue that this strategy has the potential to generate significant violations of neutrality.
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Legality, legitimacy and the form of political power: on the construction of a false antinomy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that analysis of this question often utilizes rather unreflected conceptual forms, which are largely derived from the antinomical structure of originally metaphysical accounts of the relation between law and power.
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Deliberative democracy within parties
Abstract: Political parties serve a number of vital functions in representative democracies. Connecting citizens to government is perhaps the most important one. This is how parties were traditionally conceived, and it continues to be the main standard according to which their legitimacy as representative institutions is evaluated. In recent times, observers have noted a growing disconnect between citizens and parties. Parties have gradually transformed from agents that mediate between state and civil society to agents of the state. This sits uncomfortably with the ideal of parties as connectors of citizens and government. How can their capacity to perform this function be restored?
This thesis seeks to offer a new answer to this question. Its main argument is that to revitalise their capacity to connect citizens and government, parties need to become more internally democratic, and that they need to become more internally democratic in a particular way, namely more internally deliberative. By this is meant that parties need to strengthen channels of communication from the bottom up and avail themselves of their internal deliberative resources: of the partisans on the ground, who deliberate over the demands of their community in local party branches. The theoretical part of the thesis proposes a model—called a “deliberative model of intraparty democracy”—showing how these traditional sites of partisanship can be empowered.
The empirical part of the thesis then asks whether such a model can be realised in real-world parties. The main focus is here on the deliberative capacity of organised party members, which is likely the first target of scepticism. I examine three questions, drawing on the findings of a small-scale study of deliberation in party branches in Social Democratic parties in Germany and Austria: (1) Do party branches provide favourable preconditions for deliberation? (2) Are the political discussions in
the branches “deliberative”, in the sense that they are marked by respectful exchanges of reasons? (3) When does intra-party deliberation fail? Though mainly indicative, the analysis of the empirical material suggests that party members do possess the deliberative capacity required to realise a deliberative model of intra-party democracy, and that possible deliberative deficiencies can be countervailed using simple institutional fixes. In light of this, the thesis concludes that making parties more internally deliberative in order to reconnect citizens with government is well within
reach.
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Between ‘Objectivism’ and ‘Contextualism': the Normative Foundations of Social Philosophy
TL;DR: In this article, the task of finding normative foundations for social philosophy is formulated in terms of negotiating the tension between contextualism and objectivism, and six contemporary responses to this challenge are examined.
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Political liberalism: Reasonableness and democratic practice
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore an important concept in the work of the later Rawls, the idea of the reasonable, and conclude that this concept helps to bridge the gap between liberal theory and democratic practice.
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Human Development and Economic Sustainability
Sudhir Anand,Amartya Sen +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors integrate the concern for human development in the present with that in the future, and explore the relationship between distributional equity, sustainable development, optimal growth, and pure time preference.
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Multiple modernities: Kitchens for an African elite
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Survey Article: The Coming of Age of Deliberative Democracy
TL;DR: The notion of deliberative democracy was coined by Bessette, who explicitly coined it to oppose the elitist or "aristocratic" interpretation of the American Constitution.
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Recognition without Ethics
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