Beyond Self-Interest.Jane J. Mansbridge (ed.) -1990 - University of Chicago Press.detailsThe essays trace, from the ancient Greeks to the present, the use of self-interest to explain political life.
Feminism.Susan Moller Okin &Jane J. Mansbridge -1994 - Edward Elgar Publishing.detailsThis two-volume set focuses on issues in contemporary feminist debate, including: the critique of mainstream political theories, the feminist reconstruction of political concepts, the impact of the different voice ethic of care on moral theory, and the equality/difference debate.
A Contingency Theory of Accountability.Jane Mansbridge -2014 - In Mark Bovens, Robert E. Goodin & Thomas Schillemans,The Oxford Handbook of Public Accountability. Oxford University Press.detailsAccountability has recently become synonymous with punishment, or sanctions, thus marginalizing the traditional definition of accountability as giving an account and justifying one’s actions to those to whom one is responsible. Sanction-based accountability is appropriate in contexts of justified distrust. Trust-based accountability, which relies heavily on giving an account, is most appropriate in contexts of justified trust. Sanction-based accountability can undermine trust-based accountability. Dynamic accountability, appropriate for conditions of complexity and change, involves both sanctions and trust, allowing principals and agents (...) to work together, along with the agents’ peers and external stakeholders, toward recursively revisable responses. A contingency theory of accountability stresses crafting the mix of forms of accountability to fit the requirements and capacities of the context. (shrink)
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On the Importance of Getting Things Done.Jane Mansbridge -2012 -Las Torres de Lucca: Revista Internacional de Filosofía Política 1 (1):57-82.detailsIn this paper Jane Mansbridge reflects upon the role of resistance in democracy. Resistance “can cause inaction by focusing on stopping, rather than using, coercion.”’ Instead we should increase the legitimacy of democratic action and in that manner further the possibility of sanction through coercion. An improvement of democratic institutions and of the procedures of deliberation, which makes room for citizen input, would also make for a more efficacious and organized resistance, when necessary.
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Feminism.Jane Mansbridge &Susan Moller Okin -1996 - In Robert E. Goodin, Philip Pettit & Thomas Winfried Menko Pogge,A Companion to Contemporary Political Philosophy. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 332–359.detailsFeminism is a political stance more than a systematic theory. Political life forms its base: its goal is to change the world. Like Marxism, or any other movement aimed at political change, its thought is inextricably mingled with action. Unlike Marxism, an ideology initiated by a single man, feminism is essentially plural. It is thought derived implicitly from the experience of every woman who has resisted or tried to resist domination.
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Jane Mansbridge: participation, deliberation, legitimate coercion.Jane J. Mansbridge -2018 - New York: Routledge. Edited by Melissa S. Williams.detailsThis volume tracks the evolution of Mansbridge's key contributions to democratic theory in participatory, institutional and feminist contexts through articles that span her entire career to date.