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This is an analysis of the new state and the new public management that is emerging in the 21st century. It presents the historical stages that led to the modern state, identifying a crisis of the nation-state and its origins in a fiscal crisis and in globalization

"Canada is one of a declining number of monarchies in the world, yet Canadians have never seriously considered a republican alternative. The nature of Canada's monarchy and the question of whether a republican form of government might prove superior are, in fact, subjects that are all but ignored in Canadian constitutional discussions. This study explores why this is so and what it reveals about Canadian political culture."--BOOK JACKET

The aim of this paper is to draw the attention of political theorists to the once popular and today too much neglected role of character in fashioning democratic politics. I do this through a discussion of what I consider the two most promising contemporary approaches: the republican theory of civic virtues and the pragmatist theory of democratic habits. My claim is that habits, more than virtues, provide a promising starting point for enriching our understanding of democracy. The paper proceeds as follows. After having clarified the philosophical grammars of virtues and habits and their stakes, I discuss at some length the republican theory of civic virtues, distinguishing its two main branches, the neo-Athenian and the neo-Roman, and showing that both run into significant theoretical troubles. I then proceed to examine the pragmatist account of political habits and show that it proves more successful than republican virtues in explainThe aim of this paper is to draw the attention of political theorists to the once popular and today too much neglected role of character in fashioning democratic politics. I do this through a discussion of what I consider the two most promising contemporary approaches: the republican theory of civic virtues and the pragmatist theory of democratic habits. My claim is that habits, more than virtues, provide a promising starting point for enriching our understanding of democracy. The paper proceeds as follows. After having clarified the philosophical grammars of virtues and habits and their stakes, I discuss at some length the republican theory of civic virtues, distinguishing its two main branches, the neo-Athenian and the neo-Roman, and showing that both run into significant theoretical troubles. I then proceed to examine the pragmatist account of political habits and show that it proves more successful than republican virtues in explain

El republicanismo cívico es una tradición política que, tras la crisis de las narrativas modernas, aspira a la construcción de un espacio público compartido. El pensamiento republicano cívico concibe al hombre como ciudadano, comprometido con las instituciones y con el cumplimiento de los deberes para con su comunidad. Un precursor insigne del republicanismo como Maquiavelo, al cumplirse 500 años desde la redacción de Il Príncipe, nos recuerda la importancia del vivere civile y la necesidad de respetar las instituciones para construir una ciudadanía examinada