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Neo-republicanism: Neo-republicanism is a contemporary political philosophy that draws on the classical republican tradition. It emphasizes the importance of civic virtue, non-domination, and political liberty. Representatives are Philip Pettit, Quentin Skinner, Hannah Arendt, Michael Walzer, Jürgen Habermas. See also Republic, Republicanism, State, Society, Democracy.
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Richard Dagger on Neo-Republicanism - Dictionary of Arguments

Gaus I 174
Neo-Republicanism/Dagger: (...) the republican concepts and idioms of earlier eras still speak to present concerns. Thus Sandel tries in Democracy's Discontent(1) to devise a 'public philosophy' for the United States by reclaiming the republicanism of the American Founding and the 'political economy of citizenship' that governed American thinking about economic relationships,
he argues, into the late nineteenth century.
Dagger: But that is not to say that neorepublican theorists have shied away from prescription as they have explored the implications of republicanism for contemporary politics. To the contrary, their recommendations range from the specific - national or civic service programmes (Barber, 1984(2): 298—303), campaign finance reform (Sunstein, 1988(3): 1576—8), and compulsory voting (Dagger, 1997(4): 145—51), for example - to such general issues as national identity (Miller, 1995)(5), economic arrangements that foster citizenship and strong communities (Sandel, 1996(6): Part Il; Sullivan, 1986(7); ch. 7), and the justification of punishment (Braithwaite and Pettit, 1990)(8). They are not so united on any of these points as to warrant the claim that there is a neorepublican programme for political change, but it is possible to discern four broad themes on which they do agree. These are the interrelated themes of political equality, freedom as self-government, deliberative politics, and civic virtue (cf. Sunstein, 1988(3): 1548). Cf. >Equality/Neo-republicanism.


1. Sandel, Michael ( 1996) Democracy 's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
2. Barber, Benjamin (1984) Strong Democracy: Participatory Politics for a New Age. Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press.
3. Sunstein, Cass (1988) 'Beyond the republican revival'. Yale Law Journal, 97 (July): 1539-89.
4. Dagger, Richard (1997) Civic Virtues: Rights, Citizenship, and Republican Liberalism. New York: Oxford Umversity Press.
5. Miller, David (1995) On Normality. Oxford: Clarendon
6. Sandel, Michael ( 1996) Democracy 's Discontent: America in Search of a Public Philosophy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
7. Sullivan, William (1986) Reconstructing Public Philosophy. Berkeley, CA: University of California
Press.
8. Braithwaite, John and Philip Pettit (1990) Not Just Deserts: A Republican Theory of Criminal Justice. Oxford: Clarendon.

Dagger, Richard 2004. „Communitarianism and Republicanism“. In: Gaus, Gerald F. & Kukathas, Chandran 2004. Handbook of Political Theory. SAGE Publications


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The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.
Dagger, Richard
Gaus I
Gerald F. Gaus
Chandran Kukathas
Handbook of Political Theory London 2004


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