Representative Democracy and Colonial Inspirations
The Case of John Stuart Mill
Dados Bibliográficos
| ID | 3537787 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Shmuel Lederman (0000-0002-9270-4392, Open University of Israel, autor correspondente) |
| Ano | 2022 |
| Volume | 116 |
| Fascículo | 3 |
| Páginas | 927-939 |
| Data de publicação | 2022-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sim |
| Open Access | Sim |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Periódico | American Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores do periódico | ISSN: 0003-0554 • E-ISSN: 1537-5943 |
| Editora | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003055421001283 |
| OpenAlex | W3213935271 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citações recebidas | 3 |
| Referências citadas | 38 |
Focusing on John Stuart Mill, a particularly illuminating contributor to modern democratic theory, this article examines the connections between modern democracy and the European colonial experience. It argues that Mill drew on the exclusionary logic and discourse available through the colonial experience to present significant portions of the English working classes as domestic barbarians, whose potential rise to power posed a danger to civilization itself: a line of argument that helped him legitimate representative government as a democratic, rather than an antidemocratic form of government, as it had been traditionally perceived. The article contributes to our understanding of the development of modern democratic theory and practice by drawing attention to the ways the colonial experience shaped core Western institutions and ways of thinking, and it makes the case that this experience remains an essential, if often unacknowledged, part of our collective "self
Archaeology · Argument (complex analysis · Civilization · Colonialism · Democracy · Government (linguistics · Mill · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · History · Law · Philosophy · Political Theory and Influence · Seventeenth-Century Political and Philosophical Thought
The English utilitarians and India.
Writings on India
Newspaper Writings
The Chartist Experience
The Principles of Representative Government
Making of the English Working Class
Participation and Democratic Theory
Postcolonialism and Political Theory
Liberalism, Diversity and Domination
Liberalism and Empire
Tensions of Empire
Race, Empire, and the Idea of Human Development
John Stuart Mill and the practice of colonial rule in India
John Stuart Mill on the Uses of Diversity
Barbarian thoughts
Mill’s Liberal Project and Defence of Colonialism from a Post-Colonial Perspective’
Social Thought on Ireland in the Nineteenth Century
Liberalism and Imperialism
Tolerant Imperialism
Violence and Epistemology
Kant, Mill, and Illiberal Legacies in International Affairs
John Stuart Mill's Asian Parable
A Turn to Empire
John Stuart Mill on the Antipodes
John Stuart Mill on Colonies
Mill and Sidgwick, Imperialism and Racism
Marx and Mill
| Obras citantes distintas | 3 |
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| Citações por ano | 1 |
| Intervalo de citações | 2023 - 2025 (3) |
| Velocidade de citação | recent |
| Altamente citado | Não |
| Tipos de citação | Neutras: 3 |