Well-designed republican institutions can generate norms of policy-making through games of acceptability.
Evidence
This happens only if “a regime is designed to facilitate an individualized, unconditioned and efficacious form of popular influence … bound to give a prominent role to games of acceptability and therefore to generate a range of commonly accepted norms of policy-making” (260). As I argue in the following section, we have multiple reasons to find this prediction accurate. — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 19
Categorization
- QUESTION: Does institutional design alone actually generate norms, or do norms require prior cultural substrate? Worth chasing how Pettit’s later views fare in empirical studies.
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 19
- XREF: connects to: Polycentric governance can generate republican norms without state coercion — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 1; Republican civic virtue and a game-theoretic view of democracy can be reconciled. — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 73; High republican ideals depend on mundane institutions like committees working reliably. — Philip Pettit, Republicanism: A Theory of Freedom and…, 1081 (+5 more)
Related
- Polycentric governance can generate republican norms without state coercion (similarity 0.85)
- Republican theorists have historically neglected explaining how civic norms emerge. (similarity 0.84)
- Republican ideals could be advanced by studying real-world successful collective action (similarity 0.81)
Broader Connections
- Differential enthusiasm for a policy does not preclude forging a tolerable consensus
#corroborates(0.82) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1990 - High republican ideals depend on mundane institutions like committees working reliably.
#expands(0.78) — Philip Pettit, Republicanism, 1081 - Institutions designed on incentive grounds can support encapsulated-interest trust
#corroborates(0.76) — Russell Hardin, Trust and Trustworthiness, 520 - Republican ideals could be advanced by studying real-world successful collective action
#expands(0.75) — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 83 - Institutional fit, not sincerity, makes political conduct feel natural.
#qualifies(0.75) — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 1277 - Republican civic virtue and a game-theoretic view of democracy can be reconciled.
#corroborates(0.72) — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 73 - Government policy can deliberately foster social-capital formation.
#expands(0.72) — Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone, 79