Republican governance presupposes social capital that citizens must actively build

Evidence

Republicans too often take for granted features not easy to bring about in the absence of social capital. Lovett and Pettit (2009) consider that it is through collective political actions that citizens shed light on acts of domination. For Pettit (2012), civic vigilance is the only guarantee that “the government will be forced to remain responsive to popular inputs”. — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 1

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the republican tradition’s reliance on civic vigilance and collective monitoring of domination as a precondition rather than an automatic feature.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 1
• XREF: connects to: Civic virtue advances republican freedom instrumentally, not intrinsically. — Frank Lovett, Republicanism, 65; Government policy can deliberately foster social-capital formation. — Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: America’s Declining…, 79; Republican theorists have historically neglected explaining how civic norms emerge. — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 19

Related

• Republican theorists have historically neglected explaining how civic norms emerge. (similarity 0.87)
• Civic virtue advances republican freedom instrumentally, not intrinsically. (similarity 0.84)
• Social capital enables citizens to contest policies endangering non-domination. (similarity 0.84)
• Republican liberty may not require citizens to be inwardly virtuous. (similarity 0.80)
• Social capital works without assuming individuals share common-oriented goals. (similarity 0.80)
• Republicans prefer civic-minded dispositions over civic virtue to avoid the positive liberty connotation. (similarity 0.80)
• Republican ideals could be advanced by studying real-world successful collective action (similarity 0.79)
• Republican civic virtue and a game-theoretic view of democracy can be reconciled. (similarity 0.78)
• Social capital’s self-reinforcing strength does not explain how it emerges originally. (similarity 0.78)