We the People: Is the Polity the State?
| Autor: | Holly Lawford-Smith, Stephanie Collins |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
| Předmět: |
group agency
media_common.quotation_subject collective intentions 05 social sciences Agency (philosophy) 06 humanities and the arts Liberal democracy 0603 philosophy ethics and religion Discretion Democracy 0506 political science Philosophy State (polity) Political science agency 060302 philosophy 050602 political science & public administration ontology Polity Treaty group action Control (linguistics) media_common Law and economics |
| Zdroj: | Journal of the American Philosophical Association. 7:78-97 |
| ISSN: | 2053-4485 2053-4477 |
| DOI: | 10.1017/apa.2020.15 |
| Popis: | When a liberal-democratic state signs a treaty or wages a war, does its whole polity do those things? In this article, we approach this question via the recent social ontological literature on collective agency. We provide arguments that it does and that it does not. The arguments are presented via three considerations: the polity's control over what the state does; the polity's unity; and the influence of individual polity members. We suggest that the answer to our question differs for different liberal-democratic states and depends on two underlying considerations: (1) the amount of discretion held by the state's officeholders; (2) the extent to which the democratic procedure is deliberative rather than aggregative. |
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