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2001
Political liberty or freedom is an essentially contested concept, as Berlin emphasized. He distinguished positive liberty (the ‘liberty of the ancients,’ exercised in political participation, as well as in Kantian moral autonomy) from negative liberty (the ‘liberty of the moderns,’ the ‘right to be let alone’ in one’s private life).
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Political liberty or freedom is an essentially contested concept, as Berlin emphasized. He distinguished positive liberty (the ‘liberty of the ancients,’ exercised in political participation, as well as in Kantian moral autonomy) from negative liberty (the ‘liberty of the moderns,’ the ‘right to be let alone’ in one’s private life).
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Political Freedom and Corporate Payouts
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2016We study the effect of a country’s political freedom status on corporate payouts around the world. In both OLS and two-stage regressions, we find that firms in less free countries pay out more cash, suggesting that low political freedom is associated with a less friendly investment environment.
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In struggling for their desired self-government, former slaves and former serfs sought to maximize their collective autonomy. Both also – for the first time – became part of the larger body politic, though in very different political systems. Whereas in Russia, emancipation made possible an expansion of peasants’ customary communal self-rule, in the ...
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Political Theory, Political Freedom and the Political
Australian Journal of Political Science, 2009Mario Bunge, Political Philosophy: Fact, Fiction and Vision (New Brunswick and London: Transaction Publishers, 2009), x + 439 pp., $137.00, ISBN 9781412808286 (hbk) Ian Carter, Matthew H.
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Political Freedom and Political Action
Western Political Quarterly, 1986STATEMENTS about freedom, according to MacCallum (1970: 109), can be characterized by the following schema: x is (is not) free from y to do (not do, become, not become) z, where x stands for an actor, y for a constraint, and z for an action or state of being.
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2008
A politics that enunciates the equality and universality of work is both emancipatory and transformative in the situation of trafficking. It is harnessed to the excessive elements of a situation, the illegal migrant sex workers, who are present but represented as not belonging to the situation.
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A politics that enunciates the equality and universality of work is both emancipatory and transformative in the situation of trafficking. It is harnessed to the excessive elements of a situation, the illegal migrant sex workers, who are present but represented as not belonging to the situation.
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1961
To deal with the relationship between freedom and political government in the space of a single, short treatise is not possible. Indeed, a whole book would hardly suffice to deal adequately with the subject. For freedom, which is only very seldom — in times of crisis or revolution — the direct aim of political action, is, in reality, the reason why ...
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To deal with the relationship between freedom and political government in the space of a single, short treatise is not possible. Indeed, a whole book would hardly suffice to deal adequately with the subject. For freedom, which is only very seldom — in times of crisis or revolution — the direct aim of political action, is, in reality, the reason why ...
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2015
In a remarkably short period of time, religious freedom has achieved broad consensus as an indispensable condition for peace. Faced with widespread reports of religious persecution, public and private actors around the world have responded with laws and policies designed to promote freedom of religion. But what precisely is being promoted? What are the
Winnifred Fallers Sullivan +3 more
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In a remarkably short period of time, religious freedom has achieved broad consensus as an indispensable condition for peace. Faced with widespread reports of religious persecution, public and private actors around the world have responded with laws and policies designed to promote freedom of religion. But what precisely is being promoted? What are the
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Will Economic Freedom Lead to Political Freedom?
2020In the Middle Ages, a theologian named Saint Augustine said humanity has three great evil desires. The first is the desire for money and wealth. The second is the desire for power, honor, and reputation. The third is lust. Most of human history developed under the domination of these three desires. From this perspective, what will be brought about from
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1998
Although a number of historically significant political thinkers regard freedom as a primary political value, treatments of this topic vary. One set of differences hinges on the status of freedom: in some cases it is seen as being a good in itself, while in others it appears as a necessary condition for the realisation of other values relating to human
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Although a number of historically significant political thinkers regard freedom as a primary political value, treatments of this topic vary. One set of differences hinges on the status of freedom: in some cases it is seen as being a good in itself, while in others it appears as a necessary condition for the realisation of other values relating to human
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