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Democracy, emergency, and arbitrary coercion : a liberal Republican view / by Nick C. Sagos.
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America) Available online
EBSCOhost Academic eBook Collection (North America)- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sagos, Nick C., author.
- Series:
- Studies in moral philosophy ; Volume 7.
- Studies in Moral Philosophy, 2211-2014 ; Volume 7
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crisis management in government.
- Emergency management--Government policy.
- Emergency management.
- Democracy--Philosophy.
- Democracy.
- Democracy--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Liberalism--Philosophy.
- Liberalism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (235 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- States of emergency are declared by governments with alarming frequency. When they are declared, it is taken for granted that their nature is understood. This book argues against this established view. Instead, the view advanced here analyzes what makes emergencies different from other types of similar events. Defending a hybrid liberal/republican approach, the book proposes that states of emergency are in fact poorly understood and therefore needlessly mismanaged when they occur. This mismanagement leads to a troubling derogation of established liberal democratic rights in the name of an unattainable form of hollow security. Further, the book argues that the existing rights of citizens ought to be defended (and not simply derogated) during states of emergency. Failure to do so is failure to comply with the formal values of liberal democracy itself.
- Contents:
- Preliminary Material / Nick C. Sagos
- Introduction: Two Philosophical Ideals of Liberal Democracy / Nick C. Sagos
- Constitutional Democracy and the Issue of Emergency / Nick C. Sagos
- Law and the Concept of Emergency / Nick C. Sagos
- Formal and Informal Emergency / Nick C. Sagos
- Catastrophe and Emergency / Nick C. Sagos
- Institutions, Rights, and Emergencies / Nick C. Sagos
- Appendix: Notes on Methodology / Nick C. Sagos
- Bibliography / Nick C. Sagos
- Index / Nick C. Sagos.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 90-04-28257-2
- OCLC:
- 895254808
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004282575 DOI
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