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Alan Carter - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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beyond primacy marxism anarchism and radical green Political Theory
Environmental Politics, 2010Co-Authors: Alan CarterAbstract:The most sophisticated philosophical defence of Marx's Theory of history– G.A. Cohen's – deploys functional explanations in a manner that accords explanatory primacy to technological development. In contrast, an anarchist Theory can be developed that accords explanatory primacy to the state. It is, however, possible to develop a Theory of history that accords explanatory primacy neither to the development of technology nor to the state but which nevertheless possesses the explanatory powerof both the Marxist and the anarchist theories. Such a Theory can also provide the foundations for a radical environmentalist Political Theory.
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a radical green Political Theory
1999Co-Authors: Alan CarterAbstract:This volume is the first systematic, comprehensive and cogent environmental Political philosophy. It exposes the relationships between the ever-worsening environmental crises, the nature of prevailing economic structures and the role of the modern state and concludes that the combination of these factors is driving humanity towards destruction. Innovative, provocative and cutting-edge, A Radical Green Political Theory will be of enormous value to all those with an interest in the environment, Political Theory and moral and Political philosophy.
Matt Sleat - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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ethics morality and the case for realist Political Theory
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2017Co-Authors: Edward Hall, Matt SleatAbstract:AbstractA common trait of all realistic Political theories is the rejection of a conception of Political Theory as applied moral philosophy and an attempt to preserve some form of distinctively Political thinking. Yet the reasons for favouring such an account of Political Theory can vary, a point that has often been overlooked in recent discussions by realism’s friends and critics alike. While a picture of realism as first-and-foremost an attempt to develop a more practical Political Theory which does not reduce morality to politics is often cited, in this paper we present an alternative understanding in which the motivation to embrace realism is grounded in a set of critiques of or attitudes towards moral philosophy which then feed into a series of Political positions. Political realism, on this account, is driven by a set of philosophical concerns about the nature of ethics and the place of ethical thinking in our lives. This impulse is precisely what motivated Bernard Williams and Raymond Geuss to thei...
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realism liberalism and non ideal Theory or are there two ways to do realistic Political Theory
Political Studies, 2016Co-Authors: Matt SleatAbstract:The charge that contemporary Political Theory has lost touch with the realities of politics is common to both the recent ideal/non-ideal Theory debate and the revival of interest in realist thought. However, a tendency has arisen to subsume Political realism within the ideal/non-ideal Theory debate, or to elide realism with non-ideal theorising. This article argues that this is a mistake. The ideal/non-ideal Theory discussion is a methodological debate that takes place within the framework of liberal Theory. Realism, contrary to several interpretations, is a distinct and competing conception of politics in its own right that stands in contrast to that of liberal Theory. While the two debates are united in a sense that contemporary liberal Theory needs to be more realistic, they differ significantly in their understanding of this shortcoming and, more importantly, what it is to do more realistic Political Theory.
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bernard williams and the possibility of a realist Political Theory
European Journal of Political Theory, 2010Co-Authors: Matt SleatAbstract:This article explores the prospects for developing a realist Political Theory via an analysis of the work of Bernard Williams. It begins by setting out Williams’s Theory of Political realism and pl...
William A Galston - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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value pluralism and liberal Political Theory
American Political Science Review, 1999Co-Authors: William A GalstonAbstract:Building on suggestions by Isaiah Berlin, a number of thinkers have elaborated a moral Theory of value pluralism. Berlin himself believed that value pluralism was consistent with liberalism, which he understood as a Political Theory giving great weight to the value of negative liberty. Theorists led by John Gray have argued, however, that Berlin's pluralist stance toward values is not consistent with his commitment to liberalism. Gray's critique has triggered a wide-ranging theoretical debate, and the purpose of this article is to assess that debate. I sketch the essentials of value pluralism and explore its implications for liberal Political Theory. I conclude that Gray's argument modifies our understanding of liberal democracy but does not drive a wedge between value pluralism and liberal democratic Theory. Nevertheless, it underscores the importance of prudence and attention to specific circumstances when using liberal democratic norms to guide the reform of illiberal institutions.
Emerson H Tiller - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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resource based strategies in law and positive Political Theory cost benefit analysis and the like
University of Pennsylvania Law Review, 2002Co-Authors: Emerson H TillerAbstract:While the notion of decision costs and limited resources as constraints on law and policy making have found their way into recent legal analyses, few scholars have described the broader Political control strategies available to institutions using such resource-based approaches. The Political control exercised by Congress, the President, and courts through cost-benefit analysis, and similar strategy-laden instruments, allows one or more policy makers to force a competing policy maker to expend valuable, and limited, resources thereby preventing, or greatly compromising, policies desired by the competing policy maker. Resource-based strategies can be exercised horizontally through separated powers games or vertically (upstream and downstream) in court-agency hierarchies. These strategies are revealed in legislation and agency design by Congress, executive orders by the President, and doctrine and other instruments of legal reasoning by the judiciary. Positive Political Theory offers a framework for thinking about these resource-based strategies and the implications are profound. This article solidifies the current understanding of resource-based strategies from the Positive Political Theory (PPT) perspective and presents extensions, including analyses of (1) the differential resource impacts on policy players from the various types of regulation that may be imposed on agencies (benefits statutes and cost-benefit statutes), and (2) the introduction of regulated targets as resource strategizers with public institutions.
Christopher J Coyne - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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methodological individualism spontaneous order and the research program of the workshop in Political Theory and policy analysis
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2005Co-Authors: Peter J Boettke, Christopher J CoyneAbstract:This paper is an exercise in the archeology of knowledge that seeks to understand the intellectual precursors to the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. This perspective reveals that the research agenda of the Ostroms draws significantly from the ideas and themes developed in the first half of the 20th century by Knight, Mises, and Hayek. In so doing, we argue, they usefully deploy and expand the economic way of thinking beyond its traditional boundaries while avoiding most of the criticisms of economic imperialism. © 2005 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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methodological individualism spontaneous order and the research program of the workshop in Political Theory and policy analysis
Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2005Co-Authors: Peter J Boettke, Christopher J CoyneAbstract:Abstract This paper is an exercise in the archeology of knowledge that seeks to understand the intellectual precursors to the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis. This perspective reveals that the research agenda of the Ostroms draws significantly from the ideas and themes developed in the first half of the 20th century by Knight, Mises, and Hayek. In so doing, we argue, they usefully deploy and expand the economic way of thinking beyond its traditional boundaries while avoiding most of the criticisms of economic imperialism.
