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Political representation lies at the core of modern politics. Democracies, with their vast numbers of citizens, could not operate without representative institutions. Yet relations between the democratic ideal and the everyday practice of political r
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Alexander S. Kirshner
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Legitimate Opposition ISBN: 9780300243468
This chapter uses the history of the Roman Republic to illustrate why the “clockwork constitutionalism” approach may be mistaken in most cases of interest, that is, cases in which institutions reflect inequities and injustices. Clockwork constitu
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https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300243468.003.0005
Autor:
Alexander S. Kirshner
Publikováno v:
Legitimate Opposition ISBN: 9780300243468
This chapter investigates the reception of legitimate opposition during France's Revolutionary era. In particular, it draws on this history to weigh noncompetitive alternatives to opposition. The dream of a popular regime innocent of political compet
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https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300243468.003.0007
Autor:
Alexander S. Kirshner
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Legitimate Opposition ISBN: 9780300243468
This chapter tracks the consistent intellectual threads binding the arguments of Henry Bolingbroke, David Hume, and Edmund Burke to each other. Their arguments depend on their readers' acceptance of opposition. What was not accepted, what required ju
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https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300243468.003.0006
Autor:
Alexander S. Kirshner
Publikováno v:
Legitimate Opposition ISBN: 9780300243468
This chapter reconsiders recent challenges to opposition, like populism and autocracy. The orthodox, democratic conception leads to the systematic misdiagnosis of those challenges. The chapter attempts to identify the malady in question: real-world r
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https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300243468.003.0003
Autor:
Alexander S. Kirshner
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Legitimate Opposition ISBN: 9780300243468
This introductory chapter argues that legitimate opposition should be distinguished from democracy. Doing so will help to reevaluate and reappraise legitimate opposition. Following this path will reveal whether opposition warrants active, even milita
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https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300243468.003.0001
Autor:
Alexander S. Kirshner
Publikováno v:
Legitimate Opposition ISBN: 9780300243468
This chapter demonstrates that opposition is not exclusively modern. Legitimate opposition made a recognizable mark on fifth-century, democratic Athens. Corroborating this argument, the chapter illustrates how the Athenian practice of ostracism and t
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Autor:
Alexander S. Kirshner
Publikováno v:
Legitimate Opposition ISBN: 9780300243468
This chapter develops an independent account of opposition's value—that is, the adversarial conception of legitimate opposition. Along the way, the chapter critically discusses rival perspectives developed by Ronald Dworkin, Robert Goodin, and Ian
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https://doi.org/10.12987/yale/9780300243468.003.0002
Autor:
Alexander S. Kirshner
Publikováno v:
Legitimate Opposition ISBN: 9780300243468
This concluding chapter contends that legitimate opposition is still relevant in the present day. It discusses the actions of former U.S. President Donald Trump in particular, as his remarks during the 2016 presidential campaign returned the idea of
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Autor:
ALEXANDER S. KIRSHNER
In political systems defined by legitimate opposition, those who hold power allow their rivals to peacefully challenge and displace them, and those who have lost power do not seek to sabotage the winners. Legitimate opposition came under assault at t
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