A critique of Raz's liberal perfectionism: morality and politics
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The conception of political liberalism advocated by Joseph Raz fails to address tension between modern political and moral philosophies by equating the two under his conception of well-being. By working on a theoretical level, he assumes away enduring conflicts between morality and self-interest and states that these motivations are reconciled in the moral person. Despite giving deference to autonomy and pluralism, Raz's liberalism could indeed be oppressive because it is based on narrow humanist conceptions that are not accepted in many religious traditions.
Publication Name: Government and Opposition
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0017-257X
Year: 1996
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Policy failure and petroleum predation: The economics of civil war debate viewed 'from the war-zone'
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A brief survey of the arguments and the counter-arguments to the economists is presented arguing that the economics of the civil war literature is at a much lower stage of development than the social movement literature that also had to confront the analytical challenge of explaining collective action and individual motivation. Further a case study and field-research from the war-zone unveils the complexity of conflict trajectories in resource-rich territories.
Publication Name: Government and Opposition
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0017-257X
Year: 2005
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The economics and politics of the German miracle
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Two books by political scientists describe the policies that led to the success of the German 'economic miracle' that followed the end of World War II. New institutions, policies and ideas were essential to reforms that revived the German economy beginning in 1948. The framework established during this time still influences policy today. Economic recovery was contingent on such a conducive institutional framework and would not have occurred otherwise.
Publication Name: Government and Opposition
Subject: Government
ISSN: 0017-257X
Year: 1995
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