Political development and political thought (Record no. 526795)
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| Personal name | Petrov, Philip |
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| Title | Political development and political thought |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc | Political Research Quarterly |
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| Extent | 77(1), Mar, 2024: p.76-88 |
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| Summary, etc | This essay applies existing research in new institutional economics to early modern European political theory so as to offer an interpretive proposal. Using Hobbes, Hume, and James Madison as examples, the essay proposes that understanding early modern European political theorists as inhabitants of developing countries (in a particular sense of that term) can benefit contemporary readers in interpreting some of these theorists’ normative prescriptions. Early modern political theorists faced significant risk of large-scale violence, political instability, and state repression in polities that still struggled to accomplish goals such as implementing rule of law, protecting property rights, and widely distributing material resources using impartial criteria. By contrast, many contemporary readers of these writers live in the developed and liberal-democratic West. Contemporary readers are thus liable to normalize their own conditions and to underestimate the political-economic constraints under which early modern political theorists wrote, thereby misreading some of the latter’s normative prescriptions. By interpreting early modern political theorists as writers who faced institutional constraints that have significantly receded in today’s West, contemporary readers can enrich their understanding of these writers’ objectives.- Reproduced https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/10659129231193425 |
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| Topical term or geographic name as entry element | Early modern political theory, Political economy, New institutional economics, Developing countries, Rule of law, Property rights, Resource distribution, Political instability, State repression, Hobbes, Hume, James Madison, Normative prescriptions, Historical context, Liberal democracy, Institutional constraints, Comparative interpretation, Political violence, Economic development, Western political thought, Interpretive frameworks |
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| Main entry heading | Political Research Quarterly |
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| Subject DIP | POLITICAL THEORIES |
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| Indian Institute of Public Administration | Indian Institute of Public Administration | 2024-06-26 | 77(1), Mar, 2024: p.76-88 | AR132362 | 2024-06-26 | Articles |