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On the People's Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy

Paperback • 2012

On the People's Terms: A Republican Theory and Model of Democracy

By Philip Pettit

2 Ratings • 4.0 of 5

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Drawing on the work of historians like Quentin Skinner, neo-republican theory offers a new perspective on the theory of justice and democracy. This is the first extended statement of a republican theory of democracy. It gives a fresh account of the rationale of democracy and the institutions that democracy requires. 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 the...Show more

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