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7Why and how philosophy mattersIn Robert E. Goodin & Charles Tilly (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis, Oxford University Press. pp. 35. 2006.
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70Judging justice: an introduction to contemporary political philosophyRoutledge and Kegan Paul. 1980.Social life In order to get our discussion going we need to develop a picture of what social life involves. Political evaluation, the central theme of our ...
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2ContentsIn Made with Words: Hobbes on Language, Mind, and Politics, Princeton University Press. 2009.
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130Three conceptions of democratic controlConstellations 15 (1): 46-55. 2008.The idea of control or power is central to the notion of democracy, since the ideal is one of giving kratos to the demos: giving maximal or at least significant control over government to the people. But it turns out that the notion of kratos or control is definable in various ways and that as the notion is differently understood, so the ideal of democracy is differently interpreted. In this little reflection, I distinguish between three different notions of popular control, arguing that only on…Read more
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