Freedom requires a well-ordered institutional framework to reduce domination.

Evidence

Civic republicanism holds that freedom is institutionally constituted, meaning that it can only be experienced under a well-ordered institutional framework (Lovett 2022, 21). The intellectual origins of classical republicanism can be traced back to the Italian Renaissance, when theorists such as Machiavelli or Guicciardini rediscovered and re-imagined the bulwarks against tyranny promoted in the Roman Republic. Of these, the subjection to popular control principle and the empire of law ideal became characteristic of a republic (Lovett 2022, 20-21). Classical and modern republicans have in common this emphasis on how it is up to a proper institutional framework to reduce incidences of domination, which represents the arbitrary power to interfere in another’s life. Modern republicans focus both on private instances of domination, but also on the dangers posed by the state (what Pettit 1997 calls dominium and imperium). — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 3

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 3
• XREF: connects to: Institutions constitute citizens’ freedom from domination rather than causally producing it — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 518; Freedom as non-domination is a universal primary good requiring state action to secure. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 1233; Freedom increases with reduced domination, not with improved insight into one’s dominator — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 21 (+3 more)

Related

• Anti-domination institutions must remove power, not just reduce harm probability (similarity 0.87)
• Institutions constitute citizens’ freedom from domination rather than causally producing it (similarity 0.86)
• Freedom as non-domination is constituted by institutions, not caused by them. (similarity 0.86)
• Freedom as non-domination is a universal primary good requiring state action to secure. (similarity 0.86)
• Institutions can be designed so that non-domination is smoothly maximized (similarity 0.86)
• Political freedom is constituted by institutions, not by the absence of actual interference (similarity 0.86)
• Republican institutions constitute freedom as non-domination rather than cause it. (similarity 0.85)
• Republican freedom from domination requires redistributive social policy including basic income and wealth constraints. (similarity 0.84)
• Freedom increases with reduced domination, not with improved insight into one’s dominator (similarity 0.84)
• Freedom can be reconceived as non-domination rather than non-interference or self-mastery (similarity 0.83)
• Freedom in the republican tradition means non-domination rather than merely non-interference (similarity 0.83)
• Freedom as non-domination makes mundane institutional design philosophically central (similarity 0.83)
• Civic republicans define freedom as non-domination, not mere non-interference (similarity 0.83)
• Republican freedom depends on laws that constrain power without creating new domination (similarity 0.83)
• Liberty can be lost through domination even when no one actively interferes. (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Institutions constitute citizens’ freedom from domination rather than causally producing it #qualifies (0.82) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 518
• Freedom as non-domination is a universal primary good requiring state action to secure. #corroborates (0.80) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1233
• Freedom increases with reduced domination, not with improved insight into one’s dominator #corroborates (0.72) — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 21