{"id":23459,"date":"2020-10-23T08:58:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-23T12:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=23459"},"modified":"2020-10-23T17:56:07","modified_gmt":"2020-10-23T21:56:07","slug":"citizens-against-domination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=23459","title":{"rendered":"citizens against domination"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This review-essay was recently published and is available for free: Peter Levine, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.5325\/goodsociety.28.1-2.0001#metadata_info_tab_contents\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.5325\/goodsociety.28.1-2.0001#metadata_info_tab_contents\">Citizens against Domination: A Critical Reading of Ian Shapiro,<\/a>&#8221; <em>The Good Society<\/em>, vol. 28, No. 1-2 (2019), pp. 1-8. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I admire and recommend Shapiro&#8217;s book, <em>Politics against Domination<\/em>, but I use the review as an opportunity to push two positions that I frequently advocate: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<ol class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>The state should not be sharply distinguished from other institutions; it is not uniquely capable of dominating people [or preventing domination]; and <\/li><li>The salient question is not how to design a state to prevent domination&#8211;because none of us are really state-designers&#8211;but how <em>we<\/em> should prevent domination by working through the state and the other institutions that we can influence.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The rest of the special issue is valuable. I have been particularly eager to see Brooke Ackerly&#8217;s essay, &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/10.5325\/goodsociety.28.1-2.0009#metadata_info_tab_contents\">Rage, Resistance, and Politics against Oppression<\/a>,&#8221; in print. She explores the overlap and the differences between <em>domination<\/em>&#8211;the keyword in modern republican political theory&#8211;and <em>oppression<\/em>, a fundamental term for much of the left, especially for intersectional social movements. That contrast is valuable for anyone to consider.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=20233\">from classical liberalism to a civic perspective<\/a>; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=12096\">do we live in a republic or a democracy?<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=19021\">against state-centric political theory<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=12020\">avoiding arbitrary command<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=19477\">authoritarianism and deliberative democracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This review-essay was recently published and is available for free: Peter Levine, &#8220;Citizens against Domination: A Critical Reading of Ian Shapiro,&#8221; The Good Society, vol. 28, No. 1-2 (2019), pp. 1-8. I admire and recommend Shapiro&#8217;s book, Politics against Domination, but I use the review as an opportunity to push two positions that I frequently [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23459"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23493,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23459\/revisions\/23493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}