Republican theorists have historically neglected explaining how civic norms emerge.

Evidence

This minimal understanding of civic virtue is sometimes neglected in the literature. For instance, Kimpell considers that it is only pursuant to Harrington’s exclusive focus on institutions that republicanism “shed the classical reliance on norms and civic virtue” (2023, 31). Kimpell points out that for earlier republicans—and especially for Machiavelli—there used to be a more prominent role given to norms (38). Furthermore, she considers that modern republicans neglected Tocqueville’s in-depth discussions on the importance of norms. This is why she argues that republicans such as Pettit got to the confusing point where they agree that there ought to be a synergy of laws and norms, but offer no account of “how these fundamental commitments on the part of citizens arise, [of] what generates norms of equal access and influence that shape and constrain their political behavior, including the behavior of those who could dominate because of their resources” (37). However, in his later works, Pettit tried to explain how norms might emerge – especially those “civicminded dispositions.” For the Pettit of On the People’s Terms, unlike the Pettit of Republicanism, a well-crafted republic might generate “games of acceptability … governed by a norm to the effect that participants should only offer considerations for or against a policy that all can regard as relevant” (2012, 254). — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 19

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the meaning and role of ‘games of acceptability’ as a mechanism by which civic norms of equal access might emerge in a well-designed republic.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 19
• XREF: connects to: Republicans prefer civic-minded dispositions over civic virtue to avoid the positive liberty connotation. — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 15; Republican governance presupposes social capital that citizens must actively build — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 1

Related

• Republicans prefer civic-minded dispositions over civic virtue to avoid the positive liberty connotation. (similarity 0.88)
• Republican governance presupposes social capital that citizens must actively build (similarity 0.87)
• Republican civic virtue and a game-theoretic view of democracy can be reconciled. (similarity 0.85)
• Well-designed republican institutions can generate norms of policy-making through games of acceptability. (similarity 0.84)
• Civic virtue advances republican freedom instrumentally, not intrinsically. (similarity 0.82)
• Republican civic virtue is thin enough to suit pluralist societies (similarity 0.81)
• Republican liberty may not require citizens to be inwardly virtuous. (similarity 0.81)
• Adelin-Costin Dumitru — Forging the Resistive Republic Social Capital, Institutional Stability, and Civic Virtue in Pluralist Democracies (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Republican governance presupposes social capital that citizens must actively build #expands (0.85) — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 1