TY  - BOOK
AU  - Sagos,Nick C.
TI  - Democracy, emergency, and arbitrary coercion: a liberal Republican view 
T2  - Studies in moral philosophy,
SN  - 9004282572
AV  - JF1525.C74 S24 2014eb
U1  - 363.34/56 23
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Leiden
PB  - Brill
KW  - Crisis management in government
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Moral and ethical aspects
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Derogation (Law)
KW  - Emergency management
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Executive power
KW  - Liberalism
KW  - Republicanism
KW  - War and emergency powers
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Abstract -- Introduction: Two philosophical ideals of liberal democracy -- Constitutional democracy and the issue of emergency -- Law & the concept of emergency -- Lazar on emergency -- Catastrophe and emergency -- Institutions, rights, and emergencies -- Appendix -- Notes on methodology; Available to subscribing member institutions only
N2  - "States of emergency are declared by governments with alarming frequency. When they are declared, it is taken for granted that their nature is understood. This book argues against this established view. Instead, the view advanced here, analyzes what makes emergencies different from other types of similar events. Defending a hybrid liberal/republican approach, the book proposes that states of emergency are in fact poorly understood and therefore needlessly mismanaged when they occur. This mismanagement, leads to a troubling derogation of established liberal democratic rights in the name of an unattainable form of hollow security. In conclusion, the book argues that the existing rights of citizens ought to be defended (and not simply derogated) during states of emergency. Failure to do so, is failure to comply with the values of liberal democracy itself"--Provided by publisher
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004282575
ER  -