John Attanasio
Biographic Data
| ID | 10757293 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Attanasio |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Attanasio |
| SIGNATURE | ATTANASIO J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Politics and Capital
This book is about good government, especially an ethical and fair government and constitution. It has five key ideas. Understanding these ideas is critical to addressing the problems besetting the American political and economic systems. First, the book proposes the new principle of distributive autonomy to guarantee first-order rights. The principle sharply contrasts with modern, individualistic libertarian ideas. Good governance must be centra…
Distributive Autonomy and the Foundational Problem of Campaign Finance
This chapter sketches the long-standing collision between traditional philosophical conceptions of liberty and equality, how campaign finance jurisprudence exemplifies this collision, and how the new principle of distributive autonomy avoids this collision. Distributive autonomy aims to achieve some congruence, fusion—perhaps even some synthesis—between the core constitutional values of liberty and equality in the touchy realm of first-order righ…
A Stronger Libertarian Paradigm and The Death of the New Deal Constitution
McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission (FEC) and Citizens United v. FEC have transformed the playing field. Citizens United allows those who run corporations to leverage their influence by using the massive funds accumulated by these entities. McCutcheon empowers a few individuals to make contributions to multiple campaigns around the entire country. Now a few individuals can influence entire elections cycles—essentially purchase public policy…
Distributive Autonomy, The Constitution, and Campaign Finance
In Kovacs v. Cooper , the Supreme Court permitted government to regulate the volume of sound trucks. One opinion stated that free speech does not include freedom “to drown out the natural speech of others.” Campaign speech of by interests drowns out all other campaign speech. This problem heavily distorts both the speaker’s right to speak and the listener’s right to know. The distortions disadvantage poorly financed candidates and mislead voters.…
Distributive Autonomy
This chapter first explores the logical imperative that if autonomy is valuable for all, there must be rights for each person to have at least some baseline of autonomy. This baseline imposes duties on each person in society to do her part, including giving up some of her own autonomy to make a minimal amount of autonomy available to all. But once one accepts these duties, one accepts some kind of theory of bounded rather than unfettered individu…
The Carolene Products Paradigm of Participatory Democracy
Carolene Products embraced judicial responsibility of ensuring that everyone has a fair say in the formulation of public policy, including the distribution of societal resources. The case discusses protecting the key political rights of speaking and voting. In positioning itself as the referee over politics, the Court assumed the daunting challenge of fashioning a theory of democracy. Key to this has been the weak libertarian paradigm of free spe…
Lawyer Advertising in England and the United States
Journal Article Lawyer Advertising in England and the United States Get access John B. Attanasio John B. Attanasio 1John B. Attanasio is Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh. The author wishes to thank Welsh White, Bernard Rudden and particularly R.H.S. Tur for their helpful suggestions and criticisms. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume …
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Lawyer Advertising in England and the United States
Journal Article Lawyer Advertising in England and the United States Get access John B. Attanasio John B. Attanasio 1John B. Attanasio is Visiting Assistant Professor of Law, University of Pittsburgh. The author wishes to thank Welsh White, Bernard Rudden and particularly R.H.S. Tur for their helpful suggestions and criticisms. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The American Journal of Comparative Law, Volume …
Politics and Capital
This book is about good government, especially an ethical and fair government and constitution. It has five key ideas. Understanding these ideas is critical to addressing the problems besetting the American political and economic systems. First, the book proposes the new principle of distributive autonomy to guarantee first-order rights. The principle sharply contrasts with modern, individualistic libertarian ideas. Good governance must be centra…
Distributive Autonomy and the Foundational Problem of Campaign Finance
This chapter sketches the long-standing collision between traditional philosophical conceptions of liberty and equality, how campaign finance jurisprudence exemplifies this collision, and how the new principle of distributive autonomy avoids this collision. Distributive autonomy aims to achieve some congruence, fusion—perhaps even some synthesis—between the core constitutional values of liberty and equality in the touchy realm of first-order righ…
A Stronger Libertarian Paradigm and The Death of the New Deal Constitution
McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission (FEC) and Citizens United v. FEC have transformed the playing field. Citizens United allows those who run corporations to leverage their influence by using the massive funds accumulated by these entities. McCutcheon empowers a few individuals to make contributions to multiple campaigns around the entire country. Now a few individuals can influence entire elections cycles—essentially purchase public policy…
Distributive Autonomy, The Constitution, and Campaign Finance
In Kovacs v. Cooper , the Supreme Court permitted government to regulate the volume of sound trucks. One opinion stated that free speech does not include freedom “to drown out the natural speech of others.” Campaign speech of by interests drowns out all other campaign speech. This problem heavily distorts both the speaker’s right to speak and the listener’s right to know. The distortions disadvantage poorly financed candidates and mislead voters.…
Distributive Autonomy
This chapter first explores the logical imperative that if autonomy is valuable for all, there must be rights for each person to have at least some baseline of autonomy. This baseline imposes duties on each person in society to do her part, including giving up some of her own autonomy to make a minimal amount of autonomy available to all. But once one accepts these duties, one accepts some kind of theory of bounded rather than unfettered individu…
The Carolene Products Paradigm of Participatory Democracy
Carolene Products embraced judicial responsibility of ensuring that everyone has a fair say in the formulation of public policy, including the distribution of societal resources. The case discusses protecting the key political rights of speaking and voting. In positioning itself as the referee over politics, the Court assumed the daunting challenge of fashioning a theory of democracy. Key to this has been the weak libertarian paradigm of free spe…
Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Law and economics (4 works) · Law, Rights, and Freedoms (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Autonomy (3 works) · Campaign finance (3 works) · Democracy (3 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (2 works)