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Freedom and Political Form: On Philip Pettit’s Republican Theory of Democracy

Roland Axtmann

Critical Horizons, Pages: 1 - 20

Swansea University Author: Roland Axtmann

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DOI (Published version): 10.1080/14409917.2019.1563995

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This article critically engages with Philip Pettit’s republican political philosophy, and with his republican theory of democracy in particular. The paper focuses on the question as to which institutional arrangement Pettit considers commensurate with his normative ideal of (neo-Roman) freedom. The...

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ISSN: 1440-9917 1568-5160
Published: 2019
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