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Governmental Power: Quality or Identity? Comment on Alon Harel's Argument against Outsourcing Violence
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Re'em Segev
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1. Oktober 2011
What is the appropriate division of power between public officials and private individuals? The straightforward answer to this question, it seems, is that an official should have a power if she employs it (morally) better compared to a private individual. However, Alon Harel argues that this answer is misguided, or at least partially, since there are some decisions—mainly concerning the employment of violence—that should be made and implemented only by public officials regardless of the (relative) moral quality of the decision or action. In this comment I consider and criticize this argument.
Keywords: outsourcing violence; comment; Alon Harel; inherently governmental functions; societal decisions; private entities
Published Online: 2011-10-1
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Schlagwörter für diesen Artikel
outsourcing violence;
comment;
Alon Harel;
inherently governmental functions;
societal decisions;
private entities
Artikel in diesem Heft
- Article
- Press Performance, Human Rights, and Private Power as a Threat
- Advertisements and the Public Discourse in a Democracy
- Parents, Government, and Children: Authority over Education in a Pluralist Liberal Democracy
- Privatization, School Choice and Educational Equality
- Privatization and Welfare: A Comparative Perspective
- Outsourcing Violence?
- Comment
- Governmental Power: Quality or Identity? Comment on Alon Harel's Argument against Outsourcing Violence
