Anti-domination institutions must remove power, not just reduce harm probability

Evidence

Trying to secure the absence of arbitrary interference means trying to promote it, then, but only under this important constraint: that none of the means adopted, no matter how unlikely they would make arbitrary interference, can leave the threatening agents with the unhindered capacity to interfere. The point is not just to make arbitrary interference improbable; the point is to make it inaccessible. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 371

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Institutions constitute citizens’ freedom from domination rather than causally producing it — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 518; Freedom requires a well-ordered institutional framework to reduce domination. — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 3; Institutions can be designed so that non-domination is smoothly maximized — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 453 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Institutions constitute citizens’ freedom from domination rather than causally producing it #expands (0.85) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 518
• Reducing arbitrary power requires both filtering mechanisms and penalty-backed accountability #qualifies (0.80) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 302
• Freedom requires a well-ordered institutional framework to reduce domination. #complicates (0.75) — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 3
• Power-holders must restrain themselves or power’s potential is squandered #contradicts (0.75) — Niklas Luhmann, Trust and Power, 625
• Institutions can be designed so that non-domination is smoothly maximized #corroborates (0.72) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 453
• Institutions exist to block the destructive tail risks of interacting with the untrustworthy #contradicts (0.72) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 511
• Alternatives failing to address structures of domination cannot achieve abolition #corroborates (0.70) — Davis, Angela Y, Are Prisons Obsolete, 286