Amit Ron
Biographic Data
| ID | 3721502 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Amit Ron |
| GIVEN NAMES | Amit |
| FAMILY NAME | Ron |
| SIGNATURE | RON A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3638-2552 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Legislative rainbow
This paper presents the Legislative Rainbow Model, an innovative drama-based approach to self-legislation of small groups. We systematise the approach and discuss its application in three case studies from Australia and Italy. We identify three methodological aspects that make this model a distinctively unique approach to promoting the well-being of small groups: it does not focus on the declared conflictive situation and explores the community’s…
Response to Pierre-Yves Néron’s Review of Everyone’s Business
The Social Subcontract
What does democracy demand of business? We argue that an answer to this question requires an understanding of the sorts of ethical obligations businesses have more generally. Against approaches that understand the duties of business in terms of citizenship or fiduciary obligation, we propose and develop the notion of subcontractor duties. We conceive of commercial activity as a social subcontract, in which businesses are empowered to exercise the…
Models of shareholder democracy
Existing discussions about shareholder control work with a state-centric and Westphalian conception of democracy. Therefore, they see the corporation as a state-analogue: shareholders (citizens) elect a board (legislature) charged with the responsibility to ensure that the executive follows their ‘collective interest’. We claim that state-centric models of democracy are not apt for an environment of corporate governance characterised by complex i…
Affected Interests and Their Institutions
The scope, complexity, and interconnectedness of modern society should prompt us to develop dynamic understandings of democratic modes of inclusion and exclusion. In particular, democratic theory is becoming more attentive to the mismatch between those who make decisions and those who are affected by them as well as to the need to account for the voice of the latter. In this article I build on James Bohman’s understanding of democracy as a rule b…
When an NGO Takes on Public Participation
It is often non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that promote empowered participation processes, and assume active roles in leading them. However, the ability of NGOs to take on such processes is under-theorized. In many cases empowered participation involving NGOs takes place without political support from above (or with limited or conditional support). Our goal in this article is to use a case study of participatory planning in East Jerusalem …
The Logic of the Historian and the Logic of the Citizen
In the works that follow The Logic of the History of Ideas, Mark Bevir develops a post-foundational, participatory, and deliberative conception of democracy. This article examines the relationship between Bevir's logic of the history of ideas and his logic of democratic deliberations. I argue that, given Bevir's own framework, the logic of the concepts that are employed by historians can and should be vindicated through the logic of democratic de…
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Journal Article The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Children Can Wait No Longer for Their Rights Get access Kathryn Libal, PhD, Kathryn Libal, PhD assistant professor UConn Hillel, Storrs, CTSchool of Social Work, University of Connecticut, 1798 Asylum Avenue, West Hartford, CT 06117; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Susan C. Mapp, PhD, MSSW, Susa…
The Representative Claim of Deliberative Planning
Both advocates and critics of deliberative planning often study deliberative planning processes as if they are real-life approximations of an ideal situation where the only force is the force of the better argument. However, in the course of the last decade democratic theorists came to develop a complex systemic understanding of the role of deliberation in policy making. In this view, legitimate decision making is not a one-time process but an on…
The Hermeneutics of the Causal Powers of Meaningful Objects
Much of the interest of critical realists in the hermeneutic character of social inquiry has been shaped by debates with critics. Critical realists insist that the meaningful character of societies does not exclude the possibility of treating them as objects that have causal powers and that these objects are more than the sum-total of their meanings. In what follows, I want to go beyond this debate. Working within critical realist ontology, the q…
The “Public” in “Public Peace Process” and in “Mini-Publics
The recent attention of peace studies scholars to the role of the "public" parallels an increased interest of democratic theorists in the legitimacy of "mini-publics:" initiatives that bring small groups of citizens together to discuss policy issues. In fact, democratic activists and peace activists who seek to engage the public face similar theoretical and practical challenges. The purpose of this article is to contribute to an emerging dialogue…
Modern Natural Law Meets the Market
Philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries who worked within the tradition of modern natural law became interested in political economy in part as they attempted to reconcile two conflicting images of economic activity. On the one hand, from the legal point of view economic activity was understood as a morally neutral and benign activity that could be regulated by simple and clear rules of justice. On the other hand, it was seen as a realm of po…
Power
Quentin Skinner
Rawls as a critical theorist
An interpretation of John Rawls’ ‘justice as fairness’ as a deliberative critical argumentative strategy for evaluating existing institutions is offered and its plausibility is discussed. I argue that ‘justice as fairness’ aims at synthesizing the moral values claimed byexisting social institutions into a coherent model of a well-ordered society in order to demand that these institutions stand up tothe values that they promise. Understood in such…
The “Market” and the “Forum” in Hobbes's Political Philosophy
In the last decade, the deliberative model of democracy has been offered to counter the prevalent conservative economistic tendencies of democratic theorizing. But the ideas of deliberation and rational persuasion are not newcomers on the stage of political philosophy, for they were central to the way classical rhetoricians understood politics. Against this background, this article examines the role economic and deliberative models of politics pl…
Adam Smith in Context
Regression Analysis and the Philosophy of Social Science
(2002). Regression Analysis and the Philosophy of Social Science. Journal of Critical Realism: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 119-142
When an NGO Takes on Public Participation
It is often non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that promote empowered participation processes, and assume active roles in leading them. However, the ability of NGOs to take on such processes is under-theorized. In many cases empowered participation involving NGOs takes place without political support from above (or with limited or conditional support). Our goal in this article is to use a case study of participatory planning in East Jerusalem …
Power
The Representative Claim of Deliberative Planning
Both advocates and critics of deliberative planning often study deliberative planning processes as if they are real-life approximations of an ideal situation where the only force is the force of the better argument. However, in the course of the last decade democratic theorists came to develop a complex systemic understanding of the role of deliberation in policy making. In this view, legitimate decision making is not a one-time process but an on…
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Journal Article The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Children Can Wait No Longer for Their Rights Get access Kathryn Libal, PhD, Kathryn Libal, PhD assistant professor UConn Hillel, Storrs, CTSchool of Social Work, University of Connecticut, 1798 Asylum Avenue, West Hartford, CT 06117; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Susan C. Mapp, PhD, MSSW, Susa…
Models of shareholder democracy
Existing discussions about shareholder control work with a state-centric and Westphalian conception of democracy. Therefore, they see the corporation as a state-analogue: shareholders (citizens) elect a board (legislature) charged with the responsibility to ensure that the executive follows their ‘collective interest’. We claim that state-centric models of democracy are not apt for an environment of corporate governance characterised by complex i…
The “Public” in “Public Peace Process” and in “Mini-Publics
The recent attention of peace studies scholars to the role of the "public" parallels an increased interest of democratic theorists in the legitimacy of "mini-publics:" initiatives that bring small groups of citizens together to discuss policy issues. In fact, democratic activists and peace activists who seek to engage the public face similar theoretical and practical challenges. The purpose of this article is to contribute to an emerging dialogue…
The Social Subcontract
What does democracy demand of business? We argue that an answer to this question requires an understanding of the sorts of ethical obligations businesses have more generally. Against approaches that understand the duties of business in terms of citizenship or fiduciary obligation, we propose and develop the notion of subcontractor duties. We conceive of commercial activity as a social subcontract, in which businesses are empowered to exercise the…
The “Market” and the “Forum” in Hobbes's Political Philosophy
In the last decade, the deliberative model of democracy has been offered to counter the prevalent conservative economistic tendencies of democratic theorizing. But the ideas of deliberation and rational persuasion are not newcomers on the stage of political philosophy, for they were central to the way classical rhetoricians understood politics. Against this background, this article examines the role economic and deliberative models of politics pl…
Regression Analysis and the Philosophy of Social Science
(2002). Regression Analysis and the Philosophy of Social Science. Journal of Critical Realism: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 119-142
Adam Smith in Context
Rawls as a critical theorist
An interpretation of John Rawls’ ‘justice as fairness’ as a deliberative critical argumentative strategy for evaluating existing institutions is offered and its plausibility is discussed. I argue that ‘justice as fairness’ aims at synthesizing the moral values claimed byexisting social institutions into a coherent model of a well-ordered society in order to demand that these institutions stand up tothe values that they promise. Understood in such…
The “Market” and the “Forum” in Hobbes's Political Philosophy
In the last decade, the deliberative model of democracy has been offered to counter the prevalent conservative economistic tendencies of democratic theorizing. But the ideas of deliberation and rational persuasion are not newcomers on the stage of political philosophy, for they were central to the way classical rhetoricians understood politics. Against this background, this article examines the role economic and deliberative models of politics pl…
Quentin Skinner
Modern Natural Law Meets the Market
Philosophers of the 17th and 18th centuries who worked within the tradition of modern natural law became interested in political economy in part as they attempted to reconcile two conflicting images of economic activity. On the one hand, from the legal point of view economic activity was understood as a morally neutral and benign activity that could be regulated by simple and clear rules of justice. On the other hand, it was seen as a realm of po…
Power
The Hermeneutics of the Causal Powers of Meaningful Objects
Much of the interest of critical realists in the hermeneutic character of social inquiry has been shaped by debates with critics. Critical realists insist that the meaningful character of societies does not exclude the possibility of treating them as objects that have causal powers and that these objects are more than the sum-total of their meanings. In what follows, I want to go beyond this debate. Working within critical realist ontology, the q…
The “Public” in “Public Peace Process” and in “Mini-Publics
The recent attention of peace studies scholars to the role of the "public" parallels an increased interest of democratic theorists in the legitimacy of "mini-publics:" initiatives that bring small groups of citizens together to discuss policy issues. In fact, democratic activists and peace activists who seek to engage the public face similar theoretical and practical challenges. The purpose of this article is to contribute to an emerging dialogue…
The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
Journal Article The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: Children Can Wait No Longer for Their Rights Get access Kathryn Libal, PhD, Kathryn Libal, PhD assistant professor UConn Hillel, Storrs, CTSchool of Social Work, University of Connecticut, 1798 Asylum Avenue, West Hartford, CT 06117; e-mail: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Susan C. Mapp, PhD, MSSW, Susa…
The Representative Claim of Deliberative Planning
Both advocates and critics of deliberative planning often study deliberative planning processes as if they are real-life approximations of an ideal situation where the only force is the force of the better argument. However, in the course of the last decade democratic theorists came to develop a complex systemic understanding of the role of deliberation in policy making. In this view, legitimate decision making is not a one-time process but an on…
The Logic of the Historian and the Logic of the Citizen
In the works that follow The Logic of the History of Ideas, Mark Bevir develops a post-foundational, participatory, and deliberative conception of democracy. This article examines the relationship between Bevir's logic of the history of ideas and his logic of democratic deliberations. I argue that, given Bevir's own framework, the logic of the concepts that are employed by historians can and should be vindicated through the logic of democratic de…
When an NGO Takes on Public Participation
It is often non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that promote empowered participation processes, and assume active roles in leading them. However, the ability of NGOs to take on such processes is under-theorized. In many cases empowered participation involving NGOs takes place without political support from above (or with limited or conditional support). Our goal in this article is to use a case study of participatory planning in East Jerusalem …
Affected Interests and Their Institutions
The scope, complexity, and interconnectedness of modern society should prompt us to develop dynamic understandings of democratic modes of inclusion and exclusion. In particular, democratic theory is becoming more attentive to the mismatch between those who make decisions and those who are affected by them as well as to the need to account for the voice of the latter. In this article I build on James Bohman’s understanding of democracy as a rule b…
Models of shareholder democracy
Existing discussions about shareholder control work with a state-centric and Westphalian conception of democracy. Therefore, they see the corporation as a state-analogue: shareholders (citizens) elect a board (legislature) charged with the responsibility to ensure that the executive follows their ‘collective interest’. We claim that state-centric models of democracy are not apt for an environment of corporate governance characterised by complex i…
The Social Subcontract
What does democracy demand of business? We argue that an answer to this question requires an understanding of the sorts of ethical obligations businesses have more generally. Against approaches that understand the duties of business in terms of citizenship or fiduciary obligation, we propose and develop the notion of subcontractor duties. We conceive of commercial activity as a social subcontract, in which businesses are empowered to exercise the…
Legislative rainbow
This paper presents the Legislative Rainbow Model, an innovative drama-based approach to self-legislation of small groups. We systematise the approach and discuss its application in three case studies from Australia and Italy. We identify three methodological aspects that make this model a distinctively unique approach to promoting the well-being of small groups: it does not focus on the declared conflictive situation and explores the community’s…
Response to Pierre-Yves Néron’s Review of Everyone’s Business
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