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This volume provides a thematic examination of republican theory from the Renaissance, through the Enlightenment and the experiences of the early American republic to contemporary debates. It maps out a republican ideal type according to four themes: popular sovereignty; a view of history which is sensitive to systemic corruption; an insistence on civic virtue; and, following Philip Pettit, a conception of liberty as non domination. Where possible it contrasts the treatment of those themes with that of liberals and other streams of thought.

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BILL BRUGGER is Professor of Politics at Flinders University. He has written and edited many books including Contemporary China and other books on Chinese politics.

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