People''s Duty - Collective Agency and the Morality of Public Policy

Nili develops a novel conception of 'the people', both as an agent with its own moral integrity, and as an owner of public property.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. The people's integrity; 2. The people's property; 3. The people's integrity, the people's property, and the abuse of political power; 4. Their property, our integrity: the democratic response to the problem of odious debt; 5. Policy priorities for a divided people: Israel as a case study; Conclusion.

About the author

Shmuel Nili is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University, Illinois, and a research fellow at the School of Philosophy at the Australian National University, Canberra. He has published widely in leading journals, including Ethics, The American Political Science Review, The Journal of Politics, and the American Journal of Political Science.

Product details

• Authors: Shmuel Nili, Shmuel (Northwestern University Nili
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2019
• EAN: 9781108480925
• ISBN: 978-1-108-48092-5
• No. of pages: 262
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, Social & political philosophy, Political science & theory, social and political philosophy, Social issues & processes, Political science and theory, Social and ethical issues, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law, Public Opinion & Polls, Public opinion and polls