Political Stability in the Open Society

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6231385
AutoresJames Thrasher (0000-0001-9094-5283, Monash University), John Thrasher (Monash University), Kevin Vallier (0000-0001-9407-6716, Bowling Green State University)
Ano2018
Volume62
Fascículo2
Páginas398-409
Data de publicação2018-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/ajps.12333
OpenAlexW2793432710
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas27
Referências citadas38

We argue that the Rawlsian description of a just liberal society, the well‐ordered society, fails to accommodate deep disagreement and is insufficiently dynamic. In response, we formulate an alternative model that we call the open society, organized around a new account of dynamic stability. In the open society, constitutional rules must be stable enough to preserve social conditions that foster experimentation, while leaving room in legal and institutional rules for innovation and change. Systemic robustness and dynamic stability become important for the open society in a way that they are not in the well‐ordered society. This model of the open society and the corresponding model of stability have interesting implications for thinking about the goals, norms, and institutions of liberal political systems

Law and economics · Open society · Political science · Political stability · Politics · Robustness (evolution · Sociology · Stability (learning theory · Chemistry · Computer Science · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Philosophical Ethics and Theory · Political Philosophy and Ethics