Essentially contested concepts: Debates and applications

Collier, David; Hidalgo, F. Daniel; Maciuceanu, Andra Olivia

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“…I employ Pettit's model as the point of departure for my analysis; thereafter, I address Bellamy and McCormick's objections against his 3 Since Gallie's original proposal, many scholars of different persuasions have contributed to refining and criticizing the notion of "essentially contested concepts". See: Connolly (1993), Gray (1977), Lukes (1975), MacIntyre (1973), Waldron (2002), and Collier, Hidalgo and Maciuceanu (2006). This study does not aim to examine the theoretical and methodological dimensions of Gallie's notion.…”

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Non-domination and Political Institutions: The Contested Concept of Republican Democracy

Silva

2015

Bras. Political Sci. Rev.

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Following the republican revival of the last few decades, the ideal of freedom as non-domination has become an important point of convergence among republican theorists, especially among those associated with neo-Roman republicanism. Furthermore, all neo-Roman theorists argue that a legitimate republican polity in contemporary societies must take a democratic form to overcome the aristocratic and elitist features pervasive in classical and modern republicanism. This study argues that the emerging concept of republican democracy remains essentially contested despite the increasing agreement on the ideal of liberty being constitutive of the republican tradition. It posits that the meaning of the concept of republican democracy becomes unstable in the transition from the normative ideal to the institutional level of neo-republican reasoning, which is evidenced by the fact that neo-Roman theorists embrace the ideal of non-domination but disagree on the characteristics of the institutional design capable of realizing that ideal. To substantiate this argument, the study compares three recent models of democracy that are somehow associated with neo-Roman republicanism-the electoral-contestatory model, the political constitutionalism model, and the Machiavellian democracy model, championed by

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Section: O Ricardo Silvamentioning

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Non-domination and Political Institutions: The Contested Concept of Republican Democracy

Silva

2015

Bras. Political Sci. Rev.

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“…This line of research has also been further clarified by Jason Patent (2010), whereas a critical appraisal of Gallie's achievement can be found in Collier et al (2006). c) It sets up a frame of analysis that uncovers why both accountability and transparency turn out to be learning processes.…”

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Accountability and Transparency as Learning Processes in Private, Public and Global Governance

Apreda

2014

SSRN Journal

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“…(I'll introduce Gallie's characterization in §2.) Much the same goes for discussions of essential contestability itself, including Gray (1977), Kekes (1977), Hurley (1989), and Collier et al (2006). Gallie's characterization is also the typical context of remarks to the effect that essential contestability is a "notable" feature of moral concepts (Lukes 1974a: 177) or a feature concepts have "because" they are political (Grafstein 1988: 26).…”

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“…6 So if all major evaluative terms and concepts are essentially contestable, this will tell us that they share some of their significant features with various non-evaluative terms and concepts. But essential contestability will be at best a non-distinctive and relatively weak necessary condition for a term bility as reflecting a recognition that social science research is routinely not value free (Collier et al 2006). 6 I gave a very short argument for this conclusion in Väyrynen (2013: 211-13).…”

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