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A Critique of Economic and Sociological Theories of Social Control

How is it that people manage to live side by side without incessant "warre of every man against every man"?' Thomas Hobbes, who won fame for posing this question, concluded that the legal system-the rules and might of Leviathan-is the wellspring of social order. Most law professors implicitly propagate this Hobbesian view, perhaps because it lends significance to what they teach. Law-and-economics scholars have been particularly prone to assert the centrality of legal doctrine. There is an opposing intellectual tradition, however, that emphasizes that social order can emerge without law. Its core theorists have been empirical sociologists and anthropologists who study stateless societies. Within the legal academy the law professors associated with the law-and-society movement have been the prime skeptics of the importance of law.2 A field study that I recently conducted in Shasta County, California, provides an empirical perspective on the sources of social order. The

The Moral Distinctiveness of Representative Democracy

Previous articleNext article No AccessThe Moral Distinctiveness of Representative DemocracyGeorge KatebGeorge Kateb Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Ethics Volume 91, Number 3Apr., 1981Special Issue: Symposium on the Theory and Practice of Representation Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/292248 Views: 83Total views on this site Citations: 26Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1981 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Caroline Patsias, Sylvie Patsias Politicisation at the local political level within representative and participative institutions: the example of a poor Montreal borough, Local Government Studies 3 (Apr 2023): 1–23.https://doi.org/10.1080/03003930.2023.2205133Spencer McKay Plebiscites, Referendums, and Ballot Initiatives as Institutions of Popular Sovereignty: Rousseau's Influence on Competing Theories of Popular-Vote Processes, The Review of Politics 23 (Oct 2022): 1–25.https://doi.org/10.1017/S0034670522000912Jean-Philippe Heurtin Contrepoint. 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