Beyond the Republican Revival: Non-Domination, Positive Liberty and Sortition

This is the first book-length treatment of both the non-positive- and the positive-liberty strands of the republican revival in political and constitutional theory. The republican revival, pursued especially over the last few decades, has presented republicanism as an exciting alternative to the dominant tradition of liberalism.

The book provides a sharply different interpretation of liberty from that found in the republican revival, and it argues that this different interpretation is not on...