Law Pragmatism and Democracy

Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy

✍ The Honorable Richard A. Posner 📂 Library 📅 2003 🏛 Harvard University Press 🌐 English

A liberal state is a representative democracy constrained by the rule of law. Richard Posner argues for a conception of the liberal state based on pragmatic theories of government. He views the actions of elected officials as guided by interests rather than by reason and the decisions of judges by d

Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy

📁 Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy

✍ The Honorable Richard A. Posner 📂 Library 📅 2003 🏛 Harvard University Press 🌐 English

A liberal state is a representative democracy constrained by the rule of law. Richard Posner argues for a conception of the liberal state based on pragmatic theories of government. He views the actions of elected officials as guided by interests rather than by reason and the decisions of judges by d

Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy

📁 Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy

✍ Richard A. Posner 📂 Library 📅 2009 🏛 Harvard University Press 🌐 English

<p>Posner argues for a conception of the liberal state based on pragmatic theories of government. He emphasizes the institutional and material, rather than moral and deliberative, factors in democratic decision making. Posner argues that democracy is best viewed as a competition for power by means o

📁 Law, pragmatism, and democracy

✍ Posner, Richard A. 📂 Library 📅 2003 🏛 Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press 🌐 English

Includes bibliographical references and index

Pragmatism, Rights, and Democracy

📁 Pragmatism, Rights, and Democracy

✍ Beth J. Singer 📂 Library 📅 2019 🏛 Fordham University Press 🌐 English

<p>"Singer's theory of rights, an impressive development of social accounts by pragmatists George Herbert Mead and John Dewey, was developed in Operative Rights (1993). This successor volume includes applications, lectures, replies to critics, and clarifications. For Singer, Dewey, and Mead, rights

Pragmatism, rights, and democracy

📁 Pragmatism, rights, and democracy

✍ Beth J. Singer 📂 Library 📅 1999 🏛 Fordham University Press 🌐 English

<p><span>"Singer's theory of rights, an impressive development of social accounts by pragmatists George Herbert Mead and John Dewey, was developed in Operative Rights (1993). This successor volume includes applications, lectures, replies to critics, and clarifications. For Singer, Dewey, and Mead, r

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