Add to ORKGThis thesis examines consent as the purported criterion of legitimate political authority and basis of political obligation in modern liberal democracies. Liberal consent theory posits autonomy as the basis of legitimate political authority, in as much as consent is an act of the individual’s free, autonomous will. Voluntary subjection to political power transforms it into genuine political authority. On this view, consent is the mechanism by which autonomy is protected in social interactions generally, including those of a political nature. Only those political relationships that are based on genuine, autonomy-protecting consent are legitimate: only they can give rise to legitimate political authority over others and only they can ...
In this thesis, I argue for rationalism, the claim that political legitimacy should be distributed s...
There is a moral presumption against the possession or exercise of coercive power, but political pow...
There is a moral presumption against the possession or exercise of coercive power, but political pow...
This thesis examines consent as the purported criterion of legitimate political authority and basis...
The subject of this thesis is an analysis and critique of liberal models of people's consent to citi...
This thesis is a critique of the prominent strand of contemporary liberal political theory which mai...
Political institutions and actors have a moral responsibility to secure the equal freedom of those s...
The central questions underlying The Problem of Political Authority focus on the issue of what justi...
In this thesis I argue, against prevailing wisdom in contemporary political philosophy, that consent...
Consent plays a leading role in many theories of political legitimacy. Two approaches to theorizing ...
This thesis investigates the place of democracy in the justification of political authority. The inv...
Consent theories of political obligation draw upon the unique powers consent exhibits in everyday de...
In this thesis, I argue that liberal theory faces a fundamental problem in accounting for the legiti...
The legitimacy of political regimes does not lie only in the manner in which these regimes use their...
Political institutions and actors have a moral responsibility to secure the equal freedom of those s...
In this thesis, I argue for rationalism, the claim that political legitimacy should be distributed s...
There is a moral presumption against the possession or exercise of coercive power, but political pow...
There is a moral presumption against the possession or exercise of coercive power, but political pow...
This thesis examines consent as the purported criterion of legitimate political authority and basis...
The subject of this thesis is an analysis and critique of liberal models of people's consent to citi...
This thesis is a critique of the prominent strand of contemporary liberal political theory which mai...
Political institutions and actors have a moral responsibility to secure the equal freedom of those s...
The central questions underlying The Problem of Political Authority focus on the issue of what justi...
In this thesis I argue, against prevailing wisdom in contemporary political philosophy, that consent...
Consent plays a leading role in many theories of political legitimacy. Two approaches to theorizing ...
This thesis investigates the place of democracy in the justification of political authority. The inv...
Consent theories of political obligation draw upon the unique powers consent exhibits in everyday de...
In this thesis, I argue that liberal theory faces a fundamental problem in accounting for the legiti...
The legitimacy of political regimes does not lie only in the manner in which these regimes use their...
Political institutions and actors have a moral responsibility to secure the equal freedom of those s...
In this thesis, I argue for rationalism, the claim that political legitimacy should be distributed s...
There is a moral presumption against the possession or exercise of coercive power, but political pow...
There is a moral presumption against the possession or exercise of coercive power, but political pow...