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Do Monarchies Have Higher Rates of Economic Growth? mises.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mises.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Some Replies on Classical Liberalism, Social Trust, and the Way Forward cato-unbound.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cato-unbound.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
I have felt compelled to delay my wrap-up response until we got through the events of the last week. Readers who, like me, are Americans will understand why. Here we are in Cato Unbound developing our thinking about how a democratic society copes with its antidemocratic factions, while all around us the very conflict we have been contemplating is playing out in real time. My views are colored by last week’s events. The president of the United States attempted to suborn a state’s officials to negate or change the voting outcomes in their state. (This may have happened in other states as well.) The president then used a public event to call directly for mass action that amounted to an assault on the Congress in the Capitol building on January 6. Some members of his audience took him to mean that the invading throng should not merely attempt to intimidate (or assault) members of the opposition party but also Republican members of Congress who were insufficiently resolv ....
In her lead essay for this month’s limit the participation of the antidemocratic, she is skeptical that it is wise to do so. While I agree with Ghorayeb on this latter point we should always exercise extraordinary caution when granting government new powers I do not think she succeeds in arguing for the former. That is, I am not convinced democracies can restrict the participation of the antidemocratic without violating their most basic principles. As a starting point, we might ask: what are the basic moral principles that ground democratic political institutions? Ghorayeb, following a long line of influential thought, says that the ideal of equal influence is at democracy’s foundation: “democracy is a system wherein citizens have an equal opportunity to influence political outcomes.” The basic idea here is that all citizens in a polity should have a roughly equal capacity to influence political decisions. The rich, for instance, should not have more influence on ....
Needed: a Whistleblower Protection Paradigm Shift cato.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from cato.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.