Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "democratic theory"

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    • Democratic Theory and the Question of Character 

      Nitsch, Michael (2013-02-12)
      This dissertation uses the history of political thought to shed light on the disconnect between the prominent place of judgments about the character in American democratic life, and the marginalized place of those judgments ...

    • Instrumental Justifications of Popular Rule 

      Ingham, Sean (2013-02-15)
      Ordinary citizens are rarely charged with making consequential decisions in representative democracies. Almost all consequential decisions are delegated to elected representatives or political appointees. On what basis ...

    • Militarism, Civilianism, and the Normative Theory of Democratic Civil-Military Relations 

      Ben Sasson-Gordis, Avishay (2023-03-14)
      How should the normative commitments entailed by liberal-democracy inform the choices that must be made regarding the military as an institution? This dissertation argues that liberal-democratic civil-military relations ...

    • The Last Invention of Democracy: Legitimating the Administrative State 

      Havasy, Christopher (2023-09-07)
      The modern administrative state has exceptionally broad powers to generate rules and conduct adjudications that bind, coerce, or even expand, the rights and liberties of every citizen. Despite these powers, contemporary ...

    • Theories of Institutional Corruption 

      Thompson, Dennis F. (Annual Reviews, 2018)
      Normative theorists of corruption have developed an institutional conception that is distinct from both the individualist approaches focused on quid pro quo exchanges and other institutional approaches found in the literature ...