TY - JOUR
T1 - Folie Républicaine
AU - Goodin, Robert E.
PY - 2003
Y1 - 2003
N2 - Republican political theory has undergone a recent revival, first and most strongly among historians, subsequently in a more limited way among lawyers, philosophers, and political scientists. Surveying the many contexts in which republican principles are invoked, I find that appeals to republicanism are often redundant (there being other, probably better, ways of arguing for the same practices and outcomes) and sometimes unfortunate (setting off, among "street-level republicans," resonances with darker features of the older republican tradition that contemporary academic theorists of republicanism would prefer to forget). Even the more attractive features of the republican ideal - deliberative engagement in pursuit of the common good - can invite communitarian excesses, and even the "liberal republican" versions that strive to avoid that outcome are largely bereft of mechanisms for realizing their vision.
AB - Republican political theory has undergone a recent revival, first and most strongly among historians, subsequently in a more limited way among lawyers, philosophers, and political scientists. Surveying the many contexts in which republican principles are invoked, I find that appeals to republicanism are often redundant (there being other, probably better, ways of arguing for the same practices and outcomes) and sometimes unfortunate (setting off, among "street-level republicans," resonances with darker features of the older republican tradition that contemporary academic theorists of republicanism would prefer to forget). Even the more attractive features of the republican ideal - deliberative engagement in pursuit of the common good - can invite communitarian excesses, and even the "liberal republican" versions that strive to avoid that outcome are largely bereft of mechanisms for realizing their vision.
KW - Civic virtue
KW - Common good
KW - Republican political theory
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U2 - 10.1146/annurev.polisci.6.121901.085542
DO - 10.1146/annurev.polisci.6.121901.085542
M3 - Review article
SN - 1094-2939
VL - 6
SP - 55
EP - 76
JO - Annual Review of Political Science
JF - Annual Review of Political Science
ER -