Not In Their Name

by Holly Lawford-Smith

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Description Holly Lawford-Smith questions to what extent ordinary citizens are morally responsible for their state's actions and argues for the exculpation of individual citizens and the inculpation of those working in public services.

Publisher Description

There are many actions that we attribute, at least colloquially, to states. Given their size and influence, states are able to inflict harm far beyond the reach of a single individual. But there is a great deal of unclarity about exactly who is implicated in that kind of harm, and how we should think about responsibility for it. It is a commonplace assumption that democratic publics both authorize and have control over what their states do; that their states act intheir name and on their behalf. In Not In Their Name, Holly Lawford-Smith approaches these questions from the perspective of social ontology, asking whether the state is a collective agent, and whetherordinary citizens are members of that agent. If it is, and they are, there's a clear case for democratic collective culpability. She explores alternative conceptions of the state and of membership in the state; alternative conceptions of collective agency applied to the state; the normative implications of membership in the state; and both culpability (from the inside) and responsibility (from the outside) for what the state does. Ultimately, Lawford-Smith argues for the exculpation of ordinarycitizens and the inculpation of those working in public services.

Details

  • ISBN 0198833660
  • ISBN-13 9780198833666
  • Title Not In Their Name
  • Author Holly Lawford-Smith
  • Format Hardcover
  • Year 2019
  • Pages 208
  • Publisher Oxford University Press
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