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The Contested Grounds of Democracy's Noninstrumental Value: Deliberative Democracy Versus Public Equality

open access: yesConstellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Disagreement about democracy's noninstrumental value often sees the opposition between two competing approaches. Liberty‐based arguments assign normative priority to a principle of liberty, thereby focusing on democratic self‐government as the core principle through which political authority can be reconciled with individual liberty.
Vittorio Gerosa
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The Constellation: A Reappraisal of Walter Benjamin's Influence on Theodor W. Adorno

open access: yesConstellations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In the 1920s and 1930s, Walter Benjamin and Theodor W. Adorno both sought to develop a notion of Darstellung—of philosophical presentation or representation—that could provide an alternative to the classically idealist tendency to subsume objects under abstract concepts.
E. Lawrence Bradford
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From Nouns and Adjectives to Verbs: Base Effects on the Grammatical Behaviour of Denominal Verbs in Ancient Greek1

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper investigates the role of semantic features of noun and adjective bases in determining the grammatical behaviour of Ancient Greek denominal and deadjectival verbs in *‐ye/o‐. The paper adopts a lexicalist framework (Rappaport Hovav & Levin 1998) and examines how the event schema, actionality, telicity and voice of derived verbs are ...
Carolina Marescotti
wiley   +1 more source

Does the Rule of Law Require the Separation of Powers?

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
The separation of powers is an enigmatic political ideal, particularly in the context of the modern administrative state, in which administrative officials routinely perform a combination of legislative, judicial, and executive functions. In this article we reexamine this ideal by interrogating Adrian Vermeule's provocative claim that the separation of
Dimitrios Kyritsis, Matthew Lewans
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The Doctrine of State Necessity

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This article examines the doctrine of state necessity as a distinct but relatively underexplored doctrine of constitutional law. Drawing on case law from a range of jurisdictions, it considers instances in which courts have accepted otherwise unconstitutional measures as lawful in order to preserve the operation of state institutions or protect ...
Athanasios Peftinas
wiley   +1 more source

Consideration Without Economic Duress: Reframing the Analysis of Contractual Modifications

open access: yesThe Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
Prevailing approaches to the contractual enforceability of modifications revise or dispense with the requirement of consideration and invoke economic duress to rule out unfair, inequitable, or bad faith modifications. Enforceability turns effectively on the absence of economic duress. But economic duress is a doctrine of avoidance.
Peter Benson
wiley   +1 more source

‘Mere Amateurs’? Elementary Teachers and the Making of Scientific Authority in the British Child Study Movement

open access: yesHistory, EarlyView.
Abstract This article offers new perspectives on the relationship between elementary teaching, scientific expertise and the professionalization of the human sciences. Previous scholarship has demonstrated the ready existence of ‘amateur’ science societies in the nineteenth century where cross‐class exchanges were common.
Julia Gustavsson
wiley   +1 more source

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