Passions and Constraint

Holmes, S. (1995). Passions and Constraint: On the Theory of Liberal Democracy. University of Chicago Press.

Type

Book

Intellectual base

Review or monograph

Year

1995

Link

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/P/bo3621968.html

Cited from

behavioral_economics, physics

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Primes

• Commitment Device
  • Holmes (1995) analyzed constitutions as collective precommitments — a polity binding its own future deliberations — and argued that such self-imposed constraints can be enabling rather than merely restrictive, structuring future action so as to make stable self-government possible.

    This sourceAnalyzes constitutions as collective precommitments — a polity binding its own future deliberation — and argues such self-imposed constraints can be enabling rather than merely restrictive; supports the constitutional-design broad-use claim.

• Perturbation Theory
  • Modern pedagogical synthesis

    This sourceAnalyzes constitutions as collective precommitments — a polity binding its own future deliberation — and argues such self-imposed constraints can be enabling rather than merely restrictive.

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