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Philip Pettit - Freedom as Non-Domination (Republicanism (Threats to…
Philip Pettit - Freedom as Non-Domination
Republicanism
All leaders to serve the rule of law - empire of laws not men
Fear of self-serving and corruption
Threats to Liberty
Domination by state (public imperium)
Domination of citizens by each other (private dominium)
Tracking common, recognizable interests that everyone has
Separation of powers
State serving us
Autonomy - govern oneself
Non-Domination
Always desirable?
Parent-child (serving interests)
Social conception (not choice or wealth)
Corrupt/perfectionist states
Corrupt = serving interests of those in power
Factional = serving interests of single individual/majority
Colonial = serving interests of foreign power
No perfectionist ("good life") or paternalistic (thinks it knows)
Constitutional arrangements
rule of law
separation of powers
representation of different social classes
constitutionally entrenched basic rights
Democratization of political institutions
Representative and accountable
public scrutiny
'electoral' democracy or 'çontestatory' democracy
Govt. set up as trustee to serve interests of people (NOT direct democracy)
Civic virtue
Willingness to play one's part in service of public good
minimise dangers of corruption (voting behaviour, non-domination)
Reduction of choice and domination are evil, but priority is non-domination
Least overall intereference, interference non-domination
Public Policy
Danger of social domination
heirachies
social relations/regulations
mutual relations of non-domination with others
Danger of social roles
gender
paternal
Danger of deprivation of basic needs
self-sufficiency to avoid economic vulnerability
"Freedom... is the status enjoyed by someone to the extent that no one else stands over them like a master. No one else can interfere in their lives.. on an arbitrary basis"
Social
No one as master
Nothing to do with options/choices
Arbitary power
inconstrained
fails to track welfare and world-view