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Republicanism and Political Theory is the first book to offer a comprehensive and critical survey of republican political theory.

• Critically assesses its historical credentials, conceptual coherence, and normative proposals
• Brings together original contributions from leading international scholars in an interactive way
• Provides the reader with valuable insight into new debates taking place in republican political theory

In response to the dominance of liberalism, some theorists have recently embraced the republican model as an attractive alternative. The overriding appeal of these moves seems to be the robust emphasis that forms of republicanism place on citizenship and civic virtue in light of what many commentators see as a decline in the social nature of modern politics. However, many of these discussions about republicanism are inconsistent and fail to capture the essence of a classical republican theory for today's complex modern world. The result is that the ideals and values of classical republicanism...