Responsible Citizens, Irresponsible States - Pasternak, Avia (Associate Professor in Political Theory, Associate
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This book offers an in-depth analysis of a question of both philosophical and political import: should citizens pay for their state's wrongdoings? States are often made to pay compensations for their misdeeds. However, it is their citizens who, through taxation, end up bearing the costs. Essentially, are states justified in passing the buck to their populations? The book offers a fresh justification for citizens' duties to share their state's responsibilities. Avia Pasternak combines comparative politics and public international law, defining and setting limits on what real-world democratic and authoritarian states can demand of their citizens.…mehr

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This book offers an in-depth analysis of a question of both philosophical and political import: should citizens pay for their state's wrongdoings? States are often made to pay compensations for their misdeeds. However, it is their citizens who, through taxation, end up bearing the costs. Essentially, are states justified in passing the buck to their populations? The book offers a fresh justification for citizens' duties to share their state's responsibilities. Avia Pasternak combines comparative politics and public international law, defining and setting limits on what real-world democratic and authoritarian states can demand of their citizens.
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Avia Pasternak is an Associate Professor in Political Theory and teaches political philosophy at the Department of Political Science at University College London. She earned her D.Phil. in Politics from Oxford University and held visiting positions at Stanford University and Princeton University. She writes on collective responsibility and political obligations in democracies and in non-democratic states and on the ethics of violent protests.