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Democracy, Emergency, and Arbitrary Coercion: A Liberal Republican View

By Nick C. Sagos

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2015
ISBN
9004282548, 9789004282544
ISSN
2211-2014
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1134711 bytes)
Series
Studies in Moral Philosophy 7
Pages
vi+230\237
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2016-08-17 08:34:05
Political;Philosophy;Politics & Social Sciences;So

Description

States of emergency are declared by governments with alarming frequency. When they are declared, it is taken for granted that their nature is understood. This book argues against this established view. Instead, the view advanced here analyzes what makes emergencies different from other types of similar events. Defending a hybrid liberal/republican approach, the book proposes that states of emergency are in fact poorly understood and therefore needlessly mismanaged when they occur. This mismanagement leads to a troubling derogation of established liberal democratic rights in the name of an unattainable form of hollow security. Further, the book argues that the existing rights of citizens ought to be defended (and not simply derogated) during states of emergency. Failure to do so is failure to comply with the formal values of liberal democracy itself.

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