112 research outputs found
Political Theory: Methods and Approaches
No full textEdited book with Marc Stears, co-wrote the Introduction and also sole author of one of included chapters
Suet puddings and red pillar boxes: A review of Marc Stears’ Out of the Ordinary
No full textMarc Stears’ Out of the Ordinary: How Everyday Life Inspired a Nation and How It Can Again is an engaging and sincere work of political theory. In it, Stears explores how the work of a number of British writers and artists in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s– Bill Brandt, Barbara Jones, Laurie Lee, George Orwell, JB Priestley and Dylan Thomas– can help us to overcome some of the lazy ideological conventions of our time which suggest it is impossible to simultaneously value tradition and progress, patriotism and diversity, individual rights and social duties, nationalism and internationalism, conservativism and radicalism. In this review, I highlight the timely and engaging elements of Stears’ book while also raising doubts about his treatment of the ‘everyday’ and his Blue Labour solutions to our political ills
The Missing State in Postwar American Political Thought
No full text“The Missing State in Postwar American Political Thought” (with Marc Stears) in
The Unsustainable American State. Eds. Lawrence Jacobs and Desmond King
New York: Oxford University Press, 2009
Authority, philosophical anarchism, and legitimacy
No full textOne way to prompt people to act is to claim that one’s commands impose duties upon some persons to act and subsequently to command those persons. This is the approach of practical authority. The claim of practical authority is ingredient to a predominant conception of the state. This thesis argues that the state’s claim to practical authority is both unjustified and morally wrong; it defends philosophical anarchism. The philosophical anarchist argument advanced here begins with a defence of a presumption against practical authority. It then argues that no argument for the practical authority of the state overcomes that presumption. Thus the state’s claim to practical authority is unjustified. The philosophical anarchist’s position suggests that we rethink both the normative claim ingredient to the concept of the state and the relationship between states and persons. This thesis suggests that states claim legitimacy – that is, states claim that the potentially coercive legal directives that they enact are all-things-considered morally permissible. The thesis outlines the ideal of legitimacy in political philosophy, an ideal distinct from authority. An analysis of legitimacy requires an analysis of coercion. The thesis develops a specific account of the pro tanto wrongfulness of coercion that locates the wrongfulness of coercion not with the badness of the outcomes that the coercee faces but rather with the beliefs and intentions of the coercer. Two upshots emerge from that account. The first is that legal directives are not necessarily coercive. The second is that the conditions which render coercion pro tanto wrongful also render the state’s claim to practical authority wrongful. However, whereas coercion is justifiable by an appeal to reasons that defeat its pro tanto wrongfulness, the philosophical anarchist shows that the state’s claim to practical authority is not so justifiable. Therefore, the state’s claim to practical authority is decisively wrongful
Political Theory and the Boundaries of Politics
No full textIn 'Political Theory Methods and Approaches' edited by David Leopold and Marc Stear
Political Theory and the Boundaries of Politics
No full textIn 'Political Theory Methods and Approaches' edited by David Leopold and Marc Stear
sj-docx-1-dli-10.1177_23969415211057681 - Supplemental material for “It just fits my needs better”: Autistic students and parents’ experiences of learning from home during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-dli-10.1177_23969415211057681 for “It just fits my needs better”: Autistic students and parents’ experiences of learning from home during the early phase of the COVID-19 pandemic by Melanie Heyworth, Simon Brett, Jacquiline den Houting, Iliana Magiati, Robyn Steward, Anna Urbanowicz, Marc Stears and Elizabeth Pellicano in Autism & Developmental Language Impairments</p
sj-docx-1-aut-10.1177_13623613211035936 – Supplemental material for COVID-19, social isolation and the mental health of autistic people and their families: A qualitative study
No full textSupplemental material, sj-docx-1-aut-10.1177_13623613211035936 for COVID-19, social isolation and the mental health of autistic people and their families: A qualitative study by Elizabeth Pellicano, Simon Brett, Jacquiline den Houting, Melanie Heyworth, Iliana Magiati, Robyn Steward, Anna Urbanowicz and Marc Stears in Autism</p
From hospital contributory schemes to health cash plans: mutualism in health care in the post-war period.
No full textThe article traces the post-war history of the British hospital contributory schemes, which had developed during the inter-war years to the point where, through the accumulation of small weekly contributions from a mass membership, they provided substantial proportions of hospital income. A minority of contributory schemes remained in existence post-1948, but their subsequent development has received little attention. Some evolved into provident associations offering private health insurance; others remained committed to the provision of low-cost benefits to a blue-collar clientele, and continued to be known as hospital contributory schemes. This article outlines the principal features of the contributory schemes' contemporary history. We first explore why many schemes decided to continue in existence. The next section uses national and individual scheme records to delineate the market niche which they captured and to investigate their role in post-war health provision, relative to the state system. In particular we trace the decline of convalescent home benefit, and the gradual trend towards a more uniform benefit package, of which optical and dental grants were the most popular. We then survey patterns of membership and account for the main trends in support for cash plan products since 1950. Finally, we ask to what extent the schemes were able to retain their character as a ‘movement’ with distinctive mutualist and charitable features, particularly in the more competitive environment of the later twentieth century
Capitalism, Democracy and the Missing State in Louis Hartz’s America
No full textCapitalism, Democracy and the Missing State in Louis Hartz’s America” (with Marc Stears) in Mark L. Hulliug ed. America’s Liberal Tradition Reconsidered: The Legacy of Louis Hartz. Lawrence KS: University Press of Kansas, 2010: 125-14
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