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76A Brief History of Liberty--And Its LessonsJournal of Human Development and Capabilities 17 5-21. 2016.
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1Freedom and Other Robustly Demanding GoodsIn Simon Derpmann & David P. Schweikard (eds.), Philip Pettit: Five Themes from his Work, Springer. pp. 3-16. 2015.
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35Three Mistakes About DemocracyIn Keith Breen & Allyn Fives (eds.), Philosophy and Political Engagement: Reflection in the Public Sphere, Palgrave. pp. 187-199. 2016.
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76The Asymmetry of Good and EvilIn Mark Timmons (ed.), Oxford Studies in Normative Ethics, Volume 5, Oxford University Press Uk. pp. 15-37. 2015.
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133The Hard Problem of ResponsibilityIn David Shoemaker (ed.), Oxford Studies in Agency and Responsibility, Volume 1, Oxford University Press Uk. 2013.
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88Justice: Social and PoliticalIn David Sobel, Peter Vallentyne & Steven Wall (eds.), Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, Volume 1, Oxford University Press Uk. 2015.
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86Reasons and Rationality: The Case of Group AgentsIn Iwao Hirose & Andrew Evan Reisner (eds.), Weighing and Reasoning: Themes From the Philosophy of John Broome, Oxford University Press Uk. 2015.
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88Republicanism Across CulturesIn Jun-Hyeok Kwak & Leigh Jenco (eds.), Republicanism in Northeast Asia, Routledge. 2013.In this paper I focus on how far the republican ideal of freedom as non-domination can and should command allegiance across different cultures. Is the ideal bound to western culture, as its provenance may suggest? Or does it have a hold on the human imagination and sensibility that survives across various cultural and historical divides? I argue, in a deeply unfashionable vein,that it does command a form of universal allegiance. O…Read more
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68Two Fallacies About CorporationsIn Subramanian Rangan (ed.), Performance and Progress: Essays on Capitalism, Business, and Society, Oxford University Press. pp. 379-394. 2015.One of the most important challenges for political theory is to identify the extent to which corporations should be facilitated and restricted in law. By way of background to that challenge, we need to develop a view about the nature and potential of corporations and corporate bodies in general. This chapter discusses two fallacies that we should avoid in this exercise. One, a claim popular among economists, that corporate bodies are not really agents at all. The other, a claim associated with U…Read more
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72Freedom and the State: Nanny or Nightwatchman?Public Health 129 (8): 1055-1060. 2015.There are two rival images often offered of the state. In one the state serves like a nanny to provide for the welfare of its members; in the other it requires people to look after themselves, providing only the service of a night-watchman. But this dichotomy, which is routinely invoked in debates about public health and welfare provision in general, is misleading. What the rival images turn on is not competing pictures of how the state should function in people's lives but competing pictures of…Read more
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83How to Tell if a Group is an AgentIn Jennifer Lackey (ed.), Essays in Collective Epistemology, Oxford University Press. pp. 97-121. 2014.
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1Three Issues in Social OntologyIn Julie Zahle & Finn Collin (eds.), Rethinking the Individualism-Holism Debate, Springer. pp. 77-96. 2014.
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134Criminalization in Republican TheoryIn R. A. Duff, Lindsay Farmer, S. E. Marshall, Massimo Renzo & Victor Tadros (eds.), Criminalization: The Political Morality of Criminal Law, Oxford University Press. pp. 132-150. 2014.
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104Meritocratic RepresentationIn Daniel A. Bell & Chenyang Li (eds.), The East Asian Challenge for Democracy: Political Meritocracy in Comparative Perspective, Cambridge University Press. pp. 138-160. 2013.
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72Legitimacy and Justice in Republican PerspectiveCurrent Legal Problems 65 59-82. 2012.Let justice be a feature of the social order imposed by a state and legitimacy a feature of how it is imposed: one that makes the imposition acceptable. This article argues that, so understood, legitimacy is quite a distinct concern from justice; that the core concern is with showing how state coercion is consistent with people’s being free citizens; that this does not require showing that the state exists by consensus or contract; that the best hope of satisfying the concern lies with arguing t…Read more
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144Varieties of Public RepresentationIn Ian Shapiro, Susan C. Stokes, Elisabeth Jean Wood & Alexander S. Kirshner (eds.), Political Representation, Cambridge University Press. pp. 61-89. 2009.
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112Deliberative Democracy, the Discursive Dilemma and Republican TheoryIn James S. Fishkin & Peter Laslett (eds.), Debating Deliberative Democracy, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 138-162. 2003.The Ideal of Deliberative Democracy The Discursive Dilemma The Relevance of the Dilemma for Deliberative Democracy The Resolution in Republican Theory This Resolution and Other Arguments for the Ideal Notes.
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79Collective IntentionsIn Pettit Philip (ed.), Intention in Law and Philosophy, Ashgate. pp. 241-254. 2001.
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41A Sensible PerspectivismIn Maria Baghramian & Attracta Ingram (eds.), Pluralism: The Philosophy and Politics of Diversity, Routledge. pp. 60-82. 2000.
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70Democracy, Electoral and ContestatoryIn Shapiro Ian & Macedo Stephen (eds.), Designing Democratic Institutions, New York University Press. pp. 105-144. 2000.
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415Republican Freedom and Contestatory DemocratizationIn Sterling Professor of Political Science and Henry R. Luce Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies Ian Shapiro, Ian Shapiro, Casiano Hacker-Cordón & Russell Hardin (eds.), Democracy's Value, Cambridge University Press. pp. 163-190. 1999.
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75Republican Political TheoryIn Vincent Andrew (ed.), Political Theory: Tradition and Diversity, Cambridge University Press. pp. 112-131. 1997.
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49Group agency: the possibility, design, and status of corporate agentsOxford University Press. 2011.Are companies, churches, and states genuine agents? Or are they just collections of individuals that give a misleading impression of unity? This question is important, since the answer dictates how we should explain the behaviour of these entities and whether we should treat them as responsible and accountable on the model of individual agents. Group Agency offers a new approach to that question and is relevant, therefore, to a range of fields from philosophy to law, politics, and the social sci…Read more
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78Unveiling the VoteBritish Journal of Political Science 20 (3): 311-333. 1990.The case for secrecy in voting depends on the assumption that voters reliably vote for the political outcomes they want to prevail. No such assumption is valid. Accordingly, voting procedures should be designed to provide maximal incentive for voters to vote responsibly. Secret voting fails this test because citizens are protected from public scrutiny. Under open voting, citizens are publicly answerable for their electoral choices and will be encouraged thereby to vote in a discursively defensib…Read more
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27In Defence of Fictionalism about Possible WorldsAnalysis 54 (1). 1994.Modal functionalism is the view that talk about possible worlds should be construed as talk about fictional objects. The version of modal fictionalism originally presented by Gideon Rosen adopted a simple prefixing strategy for fictionalising possible worlds analyses of modal propositions. However, Stuart Brock and Rosen himself in a later article have independently advanced an objection that shows that the prefixing strategy cannot serve fictionalist purposes. In this paper we defend fictionali…Read more
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7Law and LibertyIn Samantha Besson & José Luis Martí (eds.), Legal Republicanism: National and International Perspectives, Oxford University Press. 2009.
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