Title: On the people's terms
Description: "According to republican political theory, choosing freely requires being able to make the choice without subjection to another and freedom as a person requires being publicly protected against subjection in the exercise of basic liberties. But there is no public protection without a coercive state. And doesn't state coercion necessarily take from the freedom of the coerced? Philip Pettit addresses this question from a civic republican perspective, arguing that state interference does not involve subjection or domination if there is equally shared, popular control over government"--
Subjects: Political science, Democracy, Republicanism, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Philosophy, The State, Political science, philosophy, State, the, Human beings, Humanism, Philosophical anthropology