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POLITICAL OBLIGATION AND THE PARTICULARITY PROBLEM

Ratio, 2009
AbstractNatural duty theorists of political obligation try to base a moral duty to obey the law on some natural duty, such as the duty to promote justice. Their critics say they confront an insurmountable obstacle in the particularity problem: Since natural duties do not bind us to some persons and institutions more strongly than to others, they cannot
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Principled Particularism: Moral and Political Aspects of Authority

1988
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Particularism and the Politics of Nature

2009
This thesis is an attempt to offer an account of the practical ethics of Bruno Latour's political ecology based on Jonathan Dancy's recent work on ethical particularism with the aim of demonstrating the possibility of their entering into a fruitful alliance.
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The analysis of political discourse, with particular reference to the Venezuelan political dialogue

English for Specific Purposes, 1992
Abstract This paper reports partial results of a major project concerned with the analysis of interaction through written text, the aim of which is the study of the various manifestations of evaluation in discourse. Previous research on newspaper editorials has shown that evaluation plays a fundamental role in shaping discourse patterns (Bolivar ...
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The Particularities of Legitimacy: John Simmons on Political Obligation

Ratio Juris, 2013
AbstractIn this paper, I examine the terms on which John Simmons rejects all arguments for a moral obligation to obey the law and so defends “philosophical anarchism.” Although I accept his rejection of several criteria on which others might and often do insist, I criticize his reliance on the conditions of “generality” and “particularity.” In doing so,
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The Logic of Political Action: an Experiment with the Epistemology of the Particular

British Journal of Management, 1999
The first objective of this paper is to develop understanding of organizational political behaviour in the context of change implementation, through a constructivist approach grounded in the interpretations of the initiating actor. The basis of this exploration is the concept of ‘logic of action’, which describes the cognitive schema that an actor ...
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Electoral Incentives and Political Particularism : A Text Analysis Approach

2023
Conventional wisdom describes the electoral connection as a do ut des whereby politicians distribute public goods to constituencies in exchange for votes. Applying computational text-analytic methods to a newly collected data set on Italian proposed legislation, I investigate parliamentarians’ behavior as a case study of how this causal mechanism works.
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‘Napoleonic constitutionalism’ : legal universalism or political particularism?

2021
This article has two aims: firstly, to shed light on the driving force of “Napoleonic constitutionalism” as a means of restructuring Europe politically; secondly, to evaluate the extent to which Napoleonic constitutionalism can actually be claimed to have paved the way for legal universalism, and to assess its political repercussions in the long term ...
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The Casteized Consciousness: Literary Realism and the Politics of Particularism

Modern Language Quarterly, 2012
A product of the last two decades, Dalit (“untouchable caste”) literature in Hindi has fashioned itself as a modern protest literature, drawing on the cultural and political traditions of other Indian languages and literatures. But Hindi Dalit literature is unique in that its fictional movement against casteism, atrocity, and historical elision has ...
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English Catholic Particularism in Piety and Politics

2002
Outlines the history of the Black International, a secret organisation, directly linked to the Vatican, which brought together the leaders of the Catholic committees in nine European countries. The organisation tried to stem the tide of liberalism, socialism and nationalism that threatened the Catholic Church at the end of the 19th century.
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