Cultural Explanations of Electoral Reform: A Policy Cycle Model
The standard explanation of electoral reform is offered by rational choice accounts.
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Legitimacy without the Duty to Obey
This article aims to make conceptual room for a view about political legitimacy called the power-liability account.
The Primary Purpose of Presidential Primaries
The article discusses presidential primary elections in the United States, their place in the American democracy, and various ideas for how they should be reformed.
Political Legitimacy and Official Discretion
First Published in Philosophy & Public Affairs 21(1992): 240-274.
Précis of Intricate Ethics: Rights, Responsibilities and Permissible Harm
Substitution, Subordination, and Responsibility: Response to Scanlon, McMahan, and Rosen
Governance Indicators Can Make Sense: Under-five Mortality Rates are an Example
Governance indicators have come under fire in recent years, especially the World Governance Indicators (WGIs). Critics present these indicators as a-theoretical and biased.
Are Rising Levels of Existential Security Conducive to Secularization?
Review of Politics and the Imagination, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
As Raymond Geuss states in the introduction to his 2008 Philosophy and Real Politics (PP), his book "wishes to suggest the possibility that there might be a viable way of thinking about politics that
Affecting Definite Future People
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