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Struggles for Self-Rule: Beyond State–Society Relations

By Filippo Sabetti

Book information

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Year
2025
ISBN
9780228023920, 9780228023937, 9780228023944
DOI
10.1515/9780228023937
ASIN
B0DNCQ55VQ
LCC
JS5720 .S23 2025
Google Books ID
3ewxEQAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2087662 bytes)
Series
McGill-Queen's Studies in the History of Ideas; 92
Pages
288\289
Orientation
portrait
Paginated
no
Scanned
no
Time added
2025-03-10 08:06:42
HistoryInternational RelationsPolitical Science

Description

People the world over aspire to self-rule, especially when living under domination, conquest, and empire. Inspired by the work of Nobel laureate Elinor Ostrom, Filippo Sabetti explores how people attempt, over time, to make the longing for self-government a reality. Struggles for Self-Rule explores key moments in Italian history through a comparative perspective – from the city republics to the challenge of self-rule in France, Spain, and Catalonia – to study the circumstances in which people are able to take control of decisions that affect their lives and to what extent. Sabetti shows the wealth of the human experience of self-rule when we shift the focus of research from the government to the governance of public affairs. Traversing history, philosophy, comparative politics, and sociology, Struggles for Self-Rule takes the reader on a renaissance tour of the history of ideas and self-government that resonates in today’s world, when many communities struggle to shape the decisions that affect their lives.

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