King, Jeff;
(2023)
Responsible citizens of responsible states.
Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
10.1080/13698230.2023.2265215.
(In press).
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Abstract
Avia Pasternak’s book makes a significant contribution to our understanding of citizen responsibility for historical wrongs. This review nevertheless offers some scepticism about resting citizen liability exclusively on the idea of intentional participation. It argues that the necessity of the state possessing continuing legal responsibility over time is so intrinsic to the function of statehood that the question of citizen liability should be seen as part of the general theory of political obligation. So seen, fair play duties provide a more plausible general ground for citizen liability, even when adapted to unjust regimes. The model of intentional participation may by contrast harbour a muted connection between the ideas of blameworthiness and responsibility that the book in the main wishes to deny. And the practical problems of resting responsibility on intentional participation alone are substantial. Pasternak’s major contribution, untouched by this critique, is to explain how the special obligations undertaken by intentional citizenship strengthen and extend beyond that more foundational duty of responsible citizens.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Responsible citizens of responsible states |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/13698230.2023.2265215 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2023.2265215 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Pasternak; citizen responsibility; collective responsibility; fair play; intentional participation; the state; public debt |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10185957 |
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