Philip N. Pettit

Princeton University

L.S. Rockefeller University Professor of Human Values

305 Marx Hall

Princeton, NJ 08544-1012

United States

http://www.princeton.edu/~ppettit/

Australian National University (ANU) - Research School of Social Sciences (RSSS)

Canberra, Australian Capital Territory 0200

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1.

Law and Liberty

LAW AND REPUBLICANISM, Samantha Besson and Jose Luis Marti, eds., Oxford University Press, Forthcoming, Princeton Law and Public Affairs Working Paper No. 08-010
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 09 Dec 2008
Philip N. Pettit
Princeton University
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Republican Liberty: Three Axioms, Four Theorems

REPUBLICANISM AND POLITICAL THEORY, C. Laborde, J. Maynor, eds., Blackwell Publishing, Forthcoming, Princeton Law and Public Affairs Working Paper No. 07-004
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 10 May 2007
Philip N. Pettit
Princeton University
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Rawl's Political Ontology

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 05 Oct 2004
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Legitimate International Institutions: A Neorepublican Perspective

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Legitimate International Institutions: A Neorepublican Perspective

THE PHILOSOPHY OF INTERNATIONAL LAW, John Tasioulas and Samantha Besson, eds., Oxford University Press, Forthcoming, Princeton Law and Public Affairs Working Paper No. 08-012
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 09 Dec 2008
Philip N. Pettit
Princeton University
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Legitimate International Institutions: A Neorepublican Perspective

in John Tasioulas and Samantha Besson, Eds, the Philosophy of International Law, Oxford University Press, 2010, 139-62.
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 09 Dec 2015
Philip N. Pettit
Princeton University
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agencies, institutions, international relations, international law, domination, multilateralism

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The Way Philosophy Matters to Politics

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 05 Oct 2004
Philip N. Pettit
Princeton University
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Liberty and Leviathan

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 05 Oct 2004
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Princeton University
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The Basic Liberties

THE LEGACY OF H.L.A. HART, Matthew Kramer et al, ed., Oxford University Press, Forthcoming, Princeton Law and Public Affairs Working Paper No. 08-013
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 05 Dec 2015
Philip N. Pettit
Princeton University
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Is Criminal Justice Politically Feasible?

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 19 Feb 2003
Philip N. Pettit
Princeton University
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Preference, Deliberation and Satisfaction

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 05 Oct 2004
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Princeton University
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A Republican Law of Peoples

European Journal of Political Theory, special issue on 'Republicanism and International Relations', Forthcoming, Princeton Law and Public Affairs Working Paper No. 08-011
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 09 Dec 2008
Philip N. Pettit
Princeton University
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Responsibility Incorporated

Ethics, Vol. 117, 2007, Princeton Law and Public Affairs Working Paper No. 08-003
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 05 Feb 2008
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Princeton University
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Freedom in the Market

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 23 Jun 2005
Philip N. Pettit
Princeton University
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Two-Dimensional Democracy, National and International

IILJ Working Paper No. 2005/8
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 28 Dec 2005
Philip N. Pettit
Princeton University
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Two Republication Traditions

in Andreas Niederberger and Philipp Schink, Eds, Republican Democracy: Liberty, Law and Politics, Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh, 2013, 169-204
Number of pages: 36 Posted: 09 Dec 2015
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Princeton University
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Kant, Rousseau, Republicanism

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Varieties of Public Representation

in Ian Shapiro, Susan Stokes, E.J.Wood and Alexander Kirshner, Eds, Political Representation, Cambridge University Press, 2010, 61-89.
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 09 Dec 2015
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Princeton University
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representation, Westminster, Washington

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Representation, Responsive and Indicative

Constellations, Vol 17, 2010, 426-34
Number of pages: 9 Posted: 06 Dec 2015
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Princeton University
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indicative representation, descriptive representation, responsive representation

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The Instability of Freedom as Non-interference: The Case of Isaiah Berlin

Ethics, Vol. 121, pp. 693-716, 2011
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 06 Dec 2015
Philip N. Pettit
Princeton University
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Hobbes, freedom, non-interference, non-domination, Berlin, Republicanism, Liberalism

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Meritocratic Representation

in Daniel Bell and Li Chenyang, eds, The East Asian Challenge for Democracy: Political Meritocracy in Comparative Perspective, Cambridge University Press, 2013, 138-60
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 09 Dec 2015
Philip N. Pettit
Princeton University
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representation, meritocracy, China model, democracy

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Legitimacy and Justice in Republican Perspective

Current Legal Problems, Vol 65, 2012, 59-82
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 06 Dec 2015
Philip N. Pettit
Princeton University
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justice, legitimacy, Republicanism

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Criminalization in Republican Theory

https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198726357.003.0005
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 09 Jan 2025
Philip N. Pettit
Princeton University
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society, acts, penalties, procedures, republican, theory of government, freedom

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Republican Freedom in Choice, Person and Society

https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197754115.013.9

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 15 Jan 2025
Philip N. Pettit
Princeton University
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freedom, non-domination, choice, person, society, republicanism

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Two Concepts of Free Speech

https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198791508.003.0004
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 15 Jan 2025
Philip N. Pettit
Princeton University
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free speech, protection, academic freedom, non-interference, non-domination

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Freedom in Hobbes's Ontology and Semantics: A Comment on Quentin Skinner

Journal of the History of Ideas, Vol 73, 2012, pp 111-26
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 06 Dec 2015
Philip N. Pettit
Princeton University
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Hobbes, Skinner, freedom, contextualist

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Dispersing Power within the State

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 15 Jan 2025
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Princeton University
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Popular Sovereignty and Constitutional Democracy

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 17 Dec 2024
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Princeton University
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constitutional democracy, Jean Bodin, neo-populism, polycentrism, popular sovereignty

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 The Republican Law of Peoples: A Restatement

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 17 Jan 2025
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Princeton University
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Employment without Domination

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 15 Jan 2025
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Republican Liberalism

Number of pages: 14 Posted: 15 Jan 2025
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Two Fallacies About Corporations

https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198744283.003.0027
Number of pages: 18 Posted: 09 Jan 2025
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Princeton University
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corporations, corporate governance, trust, power, corporate agency, group agency, corporate rights, corporate persons

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International Representation by State-independent Bodies

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 15 Jan 2025
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Princeton University
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A Brief History of Liberty - And Its Lessons

Number of pages: 20
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Freedom, Justice, Democracy, Republican, Liberal

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Five elements of group agency

Inquiry, 0[10.1080/0020174X.2023.2208391]
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 15 Jan 2025
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Princeton University
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Group, agency, goal, spokesperson, commitment

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Neorepublicanism: A Normative and Institutional Research Program

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Neorepublicanism: A Normative and Institutional Research Program

Annual Review of Political Science, Vol. 12, June 2009
Posted: 08 Aug 2009
Frank Lovett and Philip N. Pettit
Washington University in St. Louis and Princeton University

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republicanism, freedom, liberty, domination, rule of law, constitutionalism, democracy

Neorepublicanism: A Normative and Institutional Research Program

Posted: 04 Jun 2010
Frank Lovett and Philip N. Pettit
Washington University in St. Louis and Princeton University

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Rawls's Peoples

Posted: 23 Jun 2005
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On the Many as One

Posted: 21 Jun 2005
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Can Contract Theory Ground Morality?

Posted: 21 Jun 2005
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Depoliticizing Democracy

Posted: 05 Oct 2004
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Democracy Before, In, and After Schumpeter

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Bodin, democracy, Hobbes, James Mill, popular sovereignty, Rousseau, Schumpeter

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The General Will, the Common Good, and a Democracy of Standards

Number of pages: 31
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Rousseau's dilemma

‘Rousseau’s Dilemma’ in Avi Lifschitz, ed, Engaging with Rousseau: Reception and Interpretation
from the Eighteenth Century to the Present, Cambridge University Press, 2016, pp 168-88
Number of pages: 34
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Princeton University
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Consciousness Incorporated

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The Conversable, Responsible Corporation

https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198738534.003.0002
Number of pages: 24
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Princeton University
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responsibility, conversability, corporation, corporate agents, person, spokesperson, blame, crime