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    Republican policies are best defended empirically on the ... — Carmelics
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    Republican policies are best defended empirically on the basis of the standard negative ideal of freedom, rather than on the basis of a conceptual challenge to that ideal.

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    • 1.The extent of a person's negative freedom is a function not simply of how many single actions are prevented, but of how many different act-combinations are prevented.
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    • 2.People who can achieve their goals only by bowing and scraping to their masters must be seen as less free, negatively, than people who can achieve those goals unconditionally.
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    • 3.The extent to which people are negatively free depends, in part, on the probability with which they will be constrained from performing future acts or act-combinations.
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    • 1.Pettit and Skinner argue republican freedom as non-domination is conceptually distinct from negative freedom, not reducible to it.
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    • 2.Non-domination captures unfreedom even when a benevolent master never interferes, which probabilistic negative freedom cannot coherently explain.
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    • 3.Collapsing republican freedom into negative freedom evacuates the normative core that makes republicanism a distinctive political tradition.
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    • 1.The probability-of-interference account still treats freedom as fundamentally about actual or counterfactual interference, missing the structural relationship of domination.
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    • 2.A slave with a negligent master scores highly on probabilistic negative freedom yet remains paradigmatically unfree under any republican analysis, exposing a conceptual gap that empirical adjustment cannot close.
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    It remains to be seen, however, whether the republican concept of freedom is ultimately distinguishable from the negative concept, or whether republican writers on freedom have not simply provided good arguments to the effect that negative freedom is best promoted, on balance and over time, through certain kinds of political institutions rather than others. While there is no necessary connection between negative liberty and democratic government, there may nevertheless be a strong empirical corr
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