Constraining Government
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- Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
- Date of Publication 19 April 2021
- ISBN 9781793603807
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages214 pages
- Size 227.08x163.58x22.86 mm
- Weight 508 g
- Language English 146
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Long description:
Moderate government is a time-honored and cherished doctrine. It has been considered the best solution of preventing tyranny and anarchy alike. However, expositions of the doctrine tend either to be entrenched by the technicalities of constitutional and public choice theory, or to remain largely exhortative. This book aims at providing a larger and more commonsensical defense of it. It addresses the issue of moderation but within a broader perspective of reflecting on how governments have developed with inherent constraints. This offers an analysis of the Antigone and Measure for Measure to discuss the necessary fall of tyranny, and the problems of how to distinguish between order and disorder. It is then argued that doing political theory is another important constraint on governments. Even conceptions that envision an unconstrained sort of government run into difficulties and as an unintended consequence, confirm the soundness of the idea that governing is an inherently constrained business. The book then takes issue with the recently growing awareness, associated with political realism, that governing is as much a personal as an institutional activity. In this context, the virtue of moderation will be discussed, and shown how it grows out of the experience of shame, whereby we are made conscious of our limitations of control over ourselves. Governing is to a large part about control, and as a personal activity it preserves the centrality of shame, and the insight that moderation is the best way to maintain effective control without pretending to have full control. Then, the book discusses three offices of government, traditionally considered to be the pivotal ones: the legislator, the chief executive, and the judge. Each will be analyzed by help of three fundamental distinctions: normal vs exceptional times, personal vs institutional aspects, and governing vs anti-governing. They highlight and confirm the inherent constraints of each office. Finally, three political conceptions of governing will be discussed, ending with a reflection on the principle of the separation of powers.
MoreTable of Contents:
Introduction
Chapter 1: Antigone and Measure for Measure: The (Re)Birth of Government
Chapter 2: The Idea of Constraining Government and Political Theory
Chapter 3: Shame and Moderation: the Internal Constraint
Chapter 4: Character and Office, Normalcy and Exceptions
Chapter 5: Political Principles of Constrained Government
Conclusion
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