TY - BOOK ID - 79337916 TI - Democracy, emergency, and arbitrary coercion : a liberal Republican view PY - 2015 SN - 9789004282544 9789004282575 9004282572 1322309841 9781322309842 9004282548 PB - Leiden, Netherlands : Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Political philosophy. Social philosophy KW - General ethics KW - Political systems KW - Human rights KW - Crisis management in government KW - Emergency management KW - Democracy KW - Liberalism KW - Republicanism KW - Executive power KW - War and emergency powers KW - Derogation (Law) KW - Legislation KW - Emergency powers KW - War powers KW - Constitutional law KW - Delegation of powers KW - Implied powers (Constitutional law) KW - Legislative power KW - War and emergency legislation KW - War, Declaration of KW - Power, Executive KW - Presidents KW - Political science KW - Separation of powers KW - Consequence management (Emergency management) KW - Disaster planning KW - Disaster preparedness KW - Disaster prevention KW - Disaster relief KW - Disasters KW - Emergencies KW - Emergency planning KW - Emergency preparedness KW - Management KW - Public safety KW - First responders KW - Government crisis management KW - Public administration KW - Government policy KW - Philosophy KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Powers KW - Planning KW - Preparedness KW - Prevention KW - E-books KW - Crisis management in government. KW - Government policy. KW - Philosophy. KW - Moral and ethical aspects. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:79337916 AB - States of emergency are declared by governments with alarming frequency. When they are declared, it is taken for granted that their nature is understood. This book argues against this established view. Instead, the view advanced here analyzes what makes emergencies different from other types of similar events. Defending a hybrid liberal/republican approach, the book proposes that states of emergency are in fact poorly understood and therefore needlessly mismanaged when they occur. This mismanagement leads to a troubling derogation of established liberal democratic rights in the name of an unattainable form of hollow security. Further, the book argues that the existing rights of citizens ought to be defended (and not simply derogated) during states of emergency. Failure to do so is failure to comply with the formal values of liberal democracy itself. ER -