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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
William Smith |
ISBN: | 9780415827010 0415827019 |
OCLC Number: | 828190114 |
Description: | ix, 162 pages ; 25 cm. |
Contents: | Introduction: A Deliberative Theory of Civil Disobedience -- Justice, Democracy & Deliberation -- Civil Disobedience against Injustice -- Civil Disobedience against Deliberative Inertia -- Civil Disobedience as a Moral Right -- Civil Disobedience and the State -- Conclusion: Civil Disobedience as a Democratic Practice. |
Series Title: | Routledge innovations in political theory, 53. |
Responsibility: | William Smith. |
Abstract:
Civil disobedience is a public, nonviolent, conscientious yet political act, contrary to law, carried out to communicate opposition to law and policy of government. This book presents a theory of civil disobedience that draws on ideas associated with deliberative democracy.
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