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dc.contributor.authorHardin, Russell
dc.date.accessioned2021-12-13T10:02:48Z
dc.date.available2021-12-13T10:02:48Z
dc.date.issued2014
dc.identifier.urihttps://jlupub.ub.uni-giessen.de//handle/jlupub/498
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.22029/jlupub-427
dc.description.abstractSocial contract theory is incoherent and it does not work as desired. Among the most obvious disanalogies is that contracts are enforced by a third party, commonly the state. There is no such external enforcer for a constitution. Contractarian theorists typically ignore all such issues and use the metaphor of contract very loosely to ground a claim that citizens are morally obligated to defer to government by their consent, as the parties to a standard legal contract would be legally obligated. David Hume's term is acquiescence. He compellingly argues that actual citizens do not believe their own legal or political obligations depend on their having agreed to their social order. More often than not our interests are simply better served by acquiescing in the rules of that constitution than by attempting to change it. The forms of commitment that are important for constitutional and even for much of conventional social choice are those that derive from the difficulties of collective action to re-coordinate on new rules. They are inherent in the social structure of the conventions themselves, a structure that often more or less automatically exacts costs from anyone who runs against the conventions without anyone or any institution having to take action against the rule breaker. Establishing a constitution is itself a massive act of coordination that, if it is stable for a while, spawns conventions that depend for their maintenance on their self-generating incentives and expectations and that block alternatives.de_DE
dc.language.isoende_DE
dc.subjectConsentde_DE
dc.subjectpolitical obligationde_DE
dc.subjectcontractualismde_DE
dc.subjectdual-conventionde_DE
dc.subjectDavid Humede_DE
dc.subjectcoordinationde_DE
dc.subjectacquiescencede_DE
dc.subjectThomas Hobbesde_DE
dc.subjectJohn Rawlsde_DE
dc.subject.ddcddc:100de_DE
dc.subject.ddcddc:330de_DE
dc.titleSocial Yes; Contract Node_DE
dc.typearticlede_DE
dcterms.isPartOf2536124-7
local.affiliationExterne Einrichtungende_DE
local.source.spage79de_DE
local.source.epage92de_DE
local.source.journaltitleRationality, markets, and morals: RMMde_DE
local.source.volume5de_DE


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