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How can citizens best protect themselves from the arbitrary power
of abusive spouses, tyrannical bosses, and corrupt politicians?
Exit Left makes the case that in each of these three spheres the
answer is the same: exit. By promoting open and competitive markets
and providing the information and financial resources necessary to
enable exit, the book argues that this can empower people's voices
and offer them an escape from abuse and exploitation. This will
advance a conception of freedom, viz. freedom as non-domination
(FND), which is central to contemporary republican thought.
Neo-republicans have typically promoted FND through constitutional
means (separation of powers, judicial review, the rule of law, and
federalism) and participatory ones (democratic elections and
oversight), but this book focuses on economic means, ones that have
been neglected by contemporary republicans but were commonly
invoked in the older, commercial-republican tradition of Alexander
Hamilton, Immanuel Kant, and Adam Smith. Just as Philip Pettit and
other neo-republicans have revived and revised classical
republicanism, so this book will do the same for commercial
republicanism. This revival will enlarge republican practice by
encouraging greater use of market mechanisms, even as it hews
closely to existing republican theory.
This book presents a range of interesting and diverse papers in
order to demonstrate the importance and need for intervention
programs that deal with the harmful effects that domestic violence
causes to primary and secondary victims as well as to perpetrators.
These papers reveal that the traditional within family home
male-upon-female definitional understanding of domestic violence in
the modern needs era to be broadened to include such experiences as
dating violence, LGBT intimate partner violence and the childhood
witnessing of domestic violence, to name but a few. Additionally,
it is argued that intervention programs, given the scale of the
domestic violence problem within society, need to be delivered in a
non-gendered and non-stigmatising manner to both the survivor and
the perpetrator. For, regardless of the gender of the perpetrator,
it is the act itself of committing violence that needs to be
eradicated. Moreover, it is argued that this eradication will best
be achieved through eliminating the destructive construct of blame
which is embedded within society's understanding of domestic
violence. The need to eliminate the harms blame is evident in the
debilitating intergenerational transfer of the abused-abuser
perpetrator label. For embedded in this label is the suggestion
that a cycle of violence exists in which maltreated children (ie:
children who have experienced or witnessed abuse) are destined to
grow up to be abusive perpetrators of domestic violence and/or
child abuse. The editors contend that the way forward lies in
changing this embedded notion and in altering the public's
indifference or acceptance of domestic violence, educating the
upcoming generation of youth on the unacceptability of fiduciary
relationship violence and in creating resilient futures for both
the primary and secondary survivors of domestic violence as well as
for perpetrators. The chapters are based on recent research
conducted in different countries by researchers from multiple
disciplines (eg: medicine, social work, psychology, law, nursing,
sexology, health sciences, education) situated in universities
around the world (eg: Australia, Canada, England, Lebanon,
Scotland, Spain and the USA). The book is comprised of seven
separate sections that aim to provide diverse perspectives on the
issue of domestic violence.
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes
over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American
and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists,
including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames
Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story,
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal
Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books,
works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works
of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value
to researchers of domestic and international law, government and
politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and
much more.++++The below data was compiled from various
identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title.
This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to insure
edition identification: ++++Harvard Law School
LibraryCTRG97-B1868Cover title. "Delivered at Boston,
Massachusetts, August 31, 1911."--Cover. U. S.: s.n., 1911?]. 18
p.; 22 cm
Reconstructing Rawls has one overarching goal: to reclaim Rawls
for the Enlightenment--more specifically, the Prussian
Enlightenment. Rawls's so-called political turn in the 1980s,
motivated by a newfound interest in pluralism and the accommodation
of difference, has been unhealthy for autonomy-based liberalism and
has led liberalism more broadly toward cultural relativism, be it
in the guise of liberal multiculturalism or critiques of
cosmopolitan distributive-justice theories. Robert Taylor believes
that it is time to redeem A Theory of Justice's implicit promise of
a universalistic, comprehensive Kantian liberalism. Reconstructing
Rawls on Kantian foundations leads to some unorthodox conclusions
about justice as fairness, to be sure: for example, it yields a
more civic-humanist reading of the priority of political liberty, a
more Marxist reading of the priority of fair equality of
opportunity, and a more ascetic or antimaterialist reading of the
difference principle. It nonetheless leaves us with a theory that
is still recognizably Rawlsian and reveals a previously untraveled
road out of Theory--a road very different from the one Rawls
himself ultimately followed.
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