Author: Avia Pasternak
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197541038
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
"International and domestic laws commonly hold states responsible for their wrongdoings. States pay compensation for their unjust wars, and reparations for their historical wrongdoings. Some argue that states should incur punitive damages for their international crimes. But there is a troubling aspect to these practices: States are corporate agents, comprised of flesh and blood citizens. When the state uses the public purse to finance its corporate liabilities, the burden falls on these citizens, even if they protested against the state's policies, did not know about them, or entirely lacked channels of political influence. How can this "distributive effect" of state-level responsibly be justified? The book develops an answer to this question, which revolves around citizens' participation in their state. It argues that citizenship can be a type of massive collective action, where citizens willingly orient themselves around the authority of their state, and where state policies are the product of this collective action. While most ordinary citizens are not to blame for their participation in their state, they nevertheless ought to accept a share of the remedial obligations that flow from their state's wrongful policies. However, the distributive effect cannot be justified in all states. Specifically, in (some) non-democratic states most citizens are not participating in their state in the full sense, and should not pay for their state's wrongdoings. This finding calls then for a revision of the way we hold states responsible in both the domestic and international levels"--
Responsible Citizens, Irresponsible States
Author: Avia Pasternak
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197541038
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
"International and domestic laws commonly hold states responsible for their wrongdoings. States pay compensation for their unjust wars, and reparations for their historical wrongdoings. Some argue that states should incur punitive damages for their international crimes. But there is a troubling aspect to these practices: States are corporate agents, comprised of flesh and blood citizens. When the state uses the public purse to finance its corporate liabilities, the burden falls on these citizens, even if they protested against the state's policies, did not know about them, or entirely lacked channels of political influence. How can this "distributive effect" of state-level responsibly be justified? The book develops an answer to this question, which revolves around citizens' participation in their state. It argues that citizenship can be a type of massive collective action, where citizens willingly orient themselves around the authority of their state, and where state policies are the product of this collective action. While most ordinary citizens are not to blame for their participation in their state, they nevertheless ought to accept a share of the remedial obligations that flow from their state's wrongful policies. However, the distributive effect cannot be justified in all states. Specifically, in (some) non-democratic states most citizens are not participating in their state in the full sense, and should not pay for their state's wrongdoings. This finding calls then for a revision of the way we hold states responsible in both the domestic and international levels"--
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0197541038
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
"International and domestic laws commonly hold states responsible for their wrongdoings. States pay compensation for their unjust wars, and reparations for their historical wrongdoings. Some argue that states should incur punitive damages for their international crimes. But there is a troubling aspect to these practices: States are corporate agents, comprised of flesh and blood citizens. When the state uses the public purse to finance its corporate liabilities, the burden falls on these citizens, even if they protested against the state's policies, did not know about them, or entirely lacked channels of political influence. How can this "distributive effect" of state-level responsibly be justified? The book develops an answer to this question, which revolves around citizens' participation in their state. It argues that citizenship can be a type of massive collective action, where citizens willingly orient themselves around the authority of their state, and where state policies are the product of this collective action. While most ordinary citizens are not to blame for their participation in their state, they nevertheless ought to accept a share of the remedial obligations that flow from their state's wrongful policies. However, the distributive effect cannot be justified in all states. Specifically, in (some) non-democratic states most citizens are not participating in their state in the full sense, and should not pay for their state's wrongdoings. This finding calls then for a revision of the way we hold states responsible in both the domestic and international levels"--
Annual Report of the Board of Education of the State of Connecticut Presented to the General Assembly ...
Author: Connecticut. State Board of Education
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 308
Book Description
Report of the Board of Education of the State of Connecticut to the Governor
Author: Connecticut. Board of Education
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Annual Report of Insurance, of the State of Maine
Author: Maine. Insurance Department
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Andover Review
Papers relating to the foreign relations of the United States
Transactions of the Kansas State Historical Society
Author: Kansas State Historical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 832
Book Description
Official Journal of the Proceedings of House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana at the ... General Assembly ...
Author: Louisiana. Legislature. House of Representatives
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Family, State and Law
Author: Michael D. A. Freeman
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
With chapters on feminism and the public/private distinction, reason and feeling in thinking about justice, the domestication of violence in mediation, women and fathers and licensing parents, this provides comprehensive coverage of family law.
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 632
Book Description
With chapters on feminism and the public/private distinction, reason and feeling in thinking about justice, the domestication of violence in mediation, women and fathers and licensing parents, this provides comprehensive coverage of family law.
Official Journal of the Proceedings of House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana
Author: Louisiana. Legislature. House
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Includes extra sessions 18 -19 .
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Louisiana
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Includes extra sessions 18 -19 .