Civil Disobedience and Deliberative Democracy

Civil disobedience is a public, nonviolent, conscientious yet political act, contrary to law, carried out to communicate opposition to law and policy of government. This book presents a theory of civil disobedience that draws on ideas associated with deliberative democracy.

Informationen zum Autor William Smith lives in retirement in Wiltshire. He read theology at St Peter's College, University of Oxford, where his interests in medieval liturgy, hagiology and monastic history first began. His publications include articles in these fields and a book, The Use of Hereford, The Sources of a Medieval English Diocesan Rite (Ashgate 2015, from 2017 Routledge). Klappentext Civil disobedience is a public, nonviolent, conscientious yet political act, contrary to law, carried out to communicate opposition to law and policy of government. This book presents a theory of civil disobedience that draws on ideas associated with deliberative democracy.This book explores the ethics of civil disobedience in democratic societies. It revisits the theoretical literature on civil disobedience with a view to taking a fresh look at long-standing questions: When is civil disobedience a justified method of political protest? What role, if any, does it play in democratic politics? Is there a moral right to civil disobedience in a democratic society? And how should a democratic state respond to citizens who commit civil disobedience? The answers given to these questions add up to a coherent and distinctive theory of civil disobedience, which draws on ideas associated with deliberative democracy to forge an account that improves upon prominent approaches to this subject.Civil Disobedience and Deliberative Democracy will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary political theory, political science, democratization studies, social movement studies, criminology, legal theory and moral philosophy. Zusammenfassung Civil disobedience is a public, nonviolent, conscientious yet political act, contrary to law, carried out to communicate opposition to law and policy of government. This book presents a theory of civil disobedience that draws on ideas associated with deliberative democracy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: A Deliberative Theory of Civil Disobedience 1. Justice, Democracy & Deliberation 2. Civil Disobedience against Injustice 3. Civil Disobedience against Deliberative Inertia 4. Civil Disobedience as a Moral Right 5. Civil Disobedience and the State Conclusion: Civil Disobedience as a Democratic Practice ...

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Introduction: A Deliberative Theory of Civil Disobedience 1. Justice, Democracy & Deliberation 2. Civil Disobedience against Injustice 3. Civil Disobedience against Deliberative Inertia 4. Civil Disobedience as a Moral Right 5. Civil Disobedience and the State Conclusion: Civil Disobedience as a Democratic Practice