ISBN details
- ISBN 10: 0198798733
- ISBN 13: 9780198798736
Overview
Contemporary republicanism is characterized by three main ideas: free persons, who are not subject to the arbitrary power of others; free states, which try to protect their citizens from such power without exercising it themselves; and vigilant citizenship, as a means to limit states to their protective role. This book advances an economic model of such republicanism that is ideologically centre-left. It demands an exit-oriented state interventionism, one thatwould require an activist government to enhance competition and resource exit from dominating relationships within markets of all types, be they marital, labour, or residential. The substantialintervention and redistribution necessitated by such an approach make it leftist, while its tendency to work with rather than against the grain of markets makes it centrist. It is, in short, a contribution to progressive republican political thought, but one that is less social-democratic than market-democratic in character.Other Details
- Publisher: Oxford University Press,
- Language: Eng English
- Format: print
- Edition: 1
- Dimensions: x, 130 pages ; 24 cm
- Pages: 144
- Date Published: 2017
- Authors: Taylor, Robert S. , 1968- (author.)