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Jeremy Waldron and the Circumstances of Politics

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The Review of Politics, Volume: 83, Issue: 2, Pages: 242 - 263

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DOI (Published version): 10.1017/s003467052000090x

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This article examines Jeremy Waldron’s concept of the ‘circumstances of politics’ (CoP), which he describes as the felt need for a common decision in the face of disagreement. Waldron uses the CoP to detach certain issues surrounding civic virtue and institutional design from questions about substan...

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Published in: The Review of Politics
ISSN: 0034-6705 1748-6858
Published: Notre Dame Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2021
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