Philip Pettit: On the People's Terms. A
Republican Theory and Model of Democracy, Cambridge U.P.
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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 there is no public protection or
security without a coercive state. Does this mean that any freedom we
enjoy is a superficial good that presupposes a deeper, political form of
subjection? Philip Pettit addresses this crucial question in On the
People's Terms. He argues that state coercion will not involve
individual subjection or domination insofar as we enjoy an equally
shared form of control over those in power. This claim may seem utopian
but it is supported by a realistic model of the institutions that might
establish such democratic control. Beginning with a fresh articulation
of republican ideas, Pettit develops a highly original account of the
rationale of democracy, breathing new life into democratic theory.
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