title: Liberal democracy and the search for political stability
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metadata.value: Buckley, Michael
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2023-10-06T13:14:11Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2023-10-06T13:14:11Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2022
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metadata.value: Buckley M. Liberal democracy and the search for political stability. Philosophy of the History of Philosophy, 2022, vol. 3, рр. 306–326. https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu34.2022.120
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/spbu34.2022.120
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/44128
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metadata.value: Liberal political philosophers are beginning to seriously consider the prospects of
  democratic instability alongside the question of justice. This chapter explores how a
  recent development in liberal political theory, political liberalism, frames the problem
  of social stability. Political liberals think reasonable pluralism is the natural
  outcome of free and open democratic institutions. The permanent existence of diverse
  yet reasonable moral and religious comprehensive doctrines create theoretical
  and practical problems for liberalism. A theoretically coherent liberalism must
  find normative reasons all can endorse even though everyone grounds their reasons
  on radically different conceptions of the moral good. A practically stable liberalism
  must show how a society whose members tend naturally toward moral division can
  nonetheless share the same normative political conception of justice. Solving both
  problems in ways consistent with liberal political values is difficult because the permanent
  existence of reasonable pluralism creates two formulations of the problem
  of stability. This chapter characterizes the two problems in terms of a positive and
  negative formulations. It traces the progress political liberals make toward resolving
  the positive formulation. It also explains how the solution to the positive formulation
  of the problem of liberal stability simultaneously provides a solution to the theoretical
  problem of liberal coherency. However, the chapter also argues that the negative
  formulation of the problem of liberal stability remains unresolved. A key task for
  liberal theorists in the twenty-first century is resolving the negative formulation of
  the problem of stability, for without a solution, the ‘rule of law’ remains vulnerable to
  attacks from those willing to use the ‘will of the people’ against it.
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
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metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Philosophy of the History of Philosophy;Volume 3
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: political liberalism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: stability
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: democratic backsliding
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: overlapping consensus
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: John Rawls
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Martha Nussbaum
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Liberal democracy and the search for political stability
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
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