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Civil Disobedience and Deliberative Democracy

By William Smith

Book information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2013
ISBN
0415827019, 9780415827010, 1138186236, 9781138186231, 0203758501, 9780203758502
DOI
10.4324/9780203758502
LCC
JC328.3 .S63 2013
Google Books ID
BdTnMgEACAAJ
Open Library ID
OL28761949M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
63 MB (66429661 bytes)
Series
Routledge Innovations in Political Theory 53
Pages
ix,162\172
Scanned
yes
Time added
2024-09-21 02:01:26

Description

Civil disobedience is a public, nonviolent, conscientious yet political act, contrary to law, carried out to communicate opposition to law and policy of government. This book presents a theory of civil disobedience that draws on ideas associated with deliberative democracy. This book explores the ethics of civil disobedience in democratic societies. It revisits the theoretical literature on civil disobedience with a view to taking a fresh look at long-standing questions: When is civil disobedience a justified method of political protest? What role, if any, does it play in democratic politics? Is there a moral right to civil disobedience in a democratic society? And how should a democratic state respond to citizens who commit civil disobedience? The answers given to these questions add up to a coherent and distinctive theory of civil disobedience, which draws on ideas associated with deliberative democracy to forge an account that improves upon prominent approaches to this subject. Civil Disobedience and Deliberative Democracy will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary political theory, political science, democratization studies, social movement studies, criminology, legal theory and moral philosophy.

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