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Record Nr.

UNINA9910796477903321

Autore

Sagos Nick C.

Titolo

Democracy, emergency, and arbitrary coercion : a liberal Republican view / / by Nick C. Sagos

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands : , : Brill, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-04-28257-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Collana

Studies in Moral Philosophy, , 2211-2014 ; ; Volume 7

Disciplina

363.34/56

Soggetti

Crisis management in government

Emergency management - Government policy

Democracy - Philosophy

Democracy - Moral and ethical aspects

Liberalism - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material / Nick C. Sagos -- Introduction: Two Philosophical Ideals of Liberal Democracy / Nick C. Sagos -- Constitutional Democracy and the Issue of Emergency / Nick C. Sagos -- Law and the Concept of Emergency / Nick C. Sagos -- Formal and Informal Emergency / Nick C. Sagos -- Catastrophe and Emergency / Nick C. Sagos -- Institutions, Rights, and Emergencies / Nick C. Sagos -- Appendix: Notes on Methodology / Nick C. Sagos -- Bibliography / Nick C. Sagos -- Index / Nick C. Sagos.

Sommario/riassunto

States of emergency are declared by governments with alarming frequency. When they are declared, it is taken for granted that their nature is understood. This book argues against this established view. Instead, the view advanced here analyzes what makes emergencies different from other types of similar events. Defending a hybrid liberal/republican approach, the book proposes that states of emergency are in fact poorly understood and therefore needlessly mismanaged when they occur. This mismanagement leads to a troubling derogation of established liberal democratic rights in the name of an unattainable form of hollow security. Further, the book



argues that the existing rights of citizens ought to be defended (and not simply derogated) during states of emergency. Failure to do so is failure to comply with the formal values of liberal democracy itself.