Electronic Resource
Palo Alto, Calif.
:
Annual Reviews
Annual Review of Political Science
6 (2003), S. 55-76
ISSN:
1094-2939
Source:
Annual Reviews Electronic Back Volume Collection 1932-2001ff
Topics:
Political Science
Notes:
Abstract Republican political theory has undergone a recent revival, first and most strongly among historians, subsequently in a more limited way among lawyers, philosophers, and political scientists. Surveying the many contexts in which republican principles are invoked, I find that appeals to republicanism are often redundant (there being other, probably better, ways of arguing for the same practices and outcomes) and sometimes unfortunate (setting off, among "street-level republicans," resonances with darker features of the older republican tradition that contemporary academic theorists of republicanism would prefer to forget). Even the more attractive features of the republican ideal-deliberative engagement in pursuit of the common good-can invite communitarian excesses, and even the "liberal republican" versions that strive to avoid that outcome are largely bereft of mechanisms for realizing their vision.
Type of Medium:
Electronic Resource
URL:
http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev.polisci.6.121901.085542
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