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Contemporary Approaches to the Social Contract


A Social Contract for the New Growth Agenda: The Role of Trust

Countries with strong social contracts are in the best position to do so. This article investigates the role of reciprocity to elicit cooperative behaviour and ...

The Social Contract Theory in the Face of Empirical Morality

The contemporary discussion of the theory now requires an empirical basis to answer its main question, the question that political philosophy ...

Rights within the Social Contract: Rousseau on Punishment

In thinking about our own contemporary practices and justifications of punishment we would do well to turn to the history of political theory, in particular to ...

Social Contract Theory: From Rousseau to Modern Governance

Social Contract Theory continues to shape contemporary political thought. It provides a framework for discussing issues of justice, the role of ...

Iraq's quest for a social contract: An approach to promoting

This analysis is founded on a concept of the social contract in which the relationship between the government and those it governs is viewed primarily as a ...

Social Contract, Authoritarianism and the Dilemma of Africans

government and thereafter a description of the nature of the contemporary social contract. ... Contemporary approaches to the social contract (Stanford ...

A Social Contract for the New Growth Agenda: The Role of Trust

D'Agostino, F., G. Gaus and J. Thrasher (2011), Contemporary approaches to the social contract, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy .

3.2 The Laws of Nature and the Social Contract - OpenStax

13.1 Contemporary Government Regimes: Power, Legitimacy, and Authority · 13.2 Categorizing Contemporary Regimes · 13.3 Recent Trends: Illiberal ...

10 Social Contract Examples (2024) - Helpful Professor

A social contract is an agreement among individuals within a social group to abide by certain rules and laws.

Which social contract for the 21st century? - e-flux Agenda

This international, interdisciplinary competition aims to promote projects that examine the social contract in light of contemporary crises and draft a design ...

(PDF) SOCIAL CONTRACT THEORY, OLD AND NEW - Academia.edu

The classical contract tradition of Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau have enjoyed such fame and acceptance as being basic to the development of liberal democratic ...

Social contract | Psychology Wiki - Fandom

The social contract, as a political theory, explains the justification and purpose of the state and of human rights. According to Hobbes' canonical theory, the ...

A contemporary social contract: An exploration of enabling factors ...

For scholars of political science, it is useful to understand the social contract's enabling factors, those conditions which motivate ...

A Model for Reconstructing a True Nigerian Nation- State

key disputes in contemporary social contract theory. Among those ... Contemporary Approaches to the Social Contract", The. Stanford ...

South Africa's Vaccine Roll-Out and Its Potential Costs to Our Social ...

Here social contract theory seeks to offer insight into political legitimacy and political obligation: how can we best explain our obligation to ...

A social contract for virtual institutions | AI & Society

D'Agostino F, Gauss G, Thrasher J (2012) Contemporary approaches to the social contract, The Stanford encyclopedia of philosophy, Edward N.

The Social Contract Tradition by Will Kymlicka (Part 2)

In this post, I look at Kymlicka's discussion of two more contemporary approaches to the social contract. These two approaches have different ...

Rawls, Buchanan, and the Search for a Better Social Contract

More precisely, many of the shortcomings found in contemporary approaches ... social contract theory. Buchanan's appendix, however, places ...

Explainer: Social Contracts - International IDEA

A social contract is an implicit agreement between the people and their government about what each side provides to the other.

Notion of multiple crisis and feminist perspectives on social contract

Contemporary contractual theory has been formulated first by John Rawls in the 1970s in his influential theory of justice within the framework of political ...