Responsible citizens, irresponsible states : should citizens pay for their State's wrongdoings? / Avia Pasternak.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Pasternak, Avia, 1975- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

State, The--Moral and ethical aspects.

State, The.

Social change--Moral and ethical aspects.

Social change.

Progress--Moral and ethical aspects.

Progress.

Citizenship--Moral and ethical aspects.

Citizenship.

Moral conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 249 pages).

Other Title:

Should citizens pay for their State's wrongdoings?

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

States pay compensation for their unjust wars, as did Iraq in the aftermath of its invasion of Kuwait. States pay reparations for their historical wrongdoings, as did Chile to the victims of the Pinochet Regime, or Germany to Israel and other countries because of the Holocaust. Some argue that they should pay punitive damages for their international crimes as well. But state responsibility has a troubling feature: states are corporate agents, comprising flesh and blood citizens. This book develops a fresh justification for citizens' duties to share the burden of their state's wrongdoings. This justification revolves around citizens' participation in their state: drawing on recent debates in the philosophy of collective action, Avia Pasternak shows that citizens are acting together in their state and that their state policies are the product of this collective action.

Contents:

Introduction

1. State Responsibility and Its Distributive Effect

2. Intentional Participation and Nonproportional Distribution

3. Intentional Participation in the State

4. Intentional Citizenship and Regime Types

5. Distributing State Responsibility

6. Distributing Responsibility

​State Compensation and State Punishment

7. Intentional Citizenship and Historical Wrongs

Conclusions

Appendix: National Identity Surveys

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-754105-4

0-19-754106-2

0-19-754104-6

OCLC:

1263026343