Robert A Sparling
Biographic Data
| ID | 4373529 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Robert A Sparling |
| GIVEN NAMES | Robert A |
| FAMILY NAME | Sparling |
| SIGNATURE | SPARLING R A |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 2 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 2 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Contracts, Treaties and Relationships: Collective Debt, Collective Responsibility and Contractarian Confusions
Aaron Mills (2017) has argued persuasively that to understand treaty relationships as contracts is to betray the spirit of those relationships. In this, he joins numerous Indigenous scholars who express wariness of contractualist understandings of treaty. This article inquires into the distinction between contractualist and relational understandings of treaty in order to think about the phenomenon of collective, transhistorical debt. Drawing out …
Corruption and Partisanship: Rousseau, Ferguson and Two Competing Models of Republican Revival
Partisanship inspires a degree of ambivalence. There is a widespread tendency—which has a long history in republican political thought—to decry division and partisanship as corrupting, undermining individual judgment, and promoting clientelism, dependencies and loyalties antithetical to the common good. Yet there is an equally widespread intuition that excessive unity is corrupting, undermining the vigour of civic life. Contemporary political the…
Corruption and Partisanship: Rousseau, Ferguson and Two Competing Models of Republican Revival
Partisanship inspires a degree of ambivalence. There is a widespread tendency—which has a long history in republican political thought—to decry division and partisanship as corrupting, undermining individual judgment, and promoting clientelism, dependencies and loyalties antithetical to the common good. Yet there is an equally widespread intuition that excessive unity is corrupting, undermining the vigour of civic life. Contemporary political the…
Corruption and Partisanship: Rousseau, Ferguson and Two Competing Models of Republican Revival
Partisanship inspires a degree of ambivalence. There is a widespread tendency—which has a long history in republican political thought—to decry division and partisanship as corrupting, undermining individual judgment, and promoting clientelism, dependencies and loyalties antithetical to the common good. Yet there is an equally widespread intuition that excessive unity is corrupting, undermining the vigour of civic life. Contemporary political the…
Contracts, Treaties and Relationships: Collective Debt, Collective Responsibility and Contractarian Confusions
Aaron Mills (2017) has argued persuasively that to understand treaty relationships as contracts is to betray the spirit of those relationships. In this, he joins numerous Indigenous scholars who express wariness of contractualist understandings of treaty. This article inquires into the distinction between contractualist and relational understandings of treaty in order to think about the phenomenon of collective, transhistorical debt. Drawing out …
Law (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Law and economics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Ambivalence (1 works) · American Constitutional Law and Politics (1 works) · Business (1 works) · Civic virtue (1 works) · Collective responsibility (1 works) · Debt (1 works)