The Cost of Rights View Online By Stephen Holmes
| Title | : | The Cost of Rights |
| Author | : | Stephen Holmes |
| Format | : | Hardcover |
| Page | : | 255 pages |
| ISBN | : | 0393046702 |
All legally enforceable rights cost money A practical, commonsense notion Yes, but one ignored by almost everyone, from libertarian ideologues to Supreme Court justices to human rights advocates The simple insight that rights are expensive reminds us that freedom is not violated by a government that taxes and spends, but requires it and requires a citizenry vigilant a All legally enforceable rights cost money A practical, commonsense notion Yes, but one ignored by almost everyone, from libertarian ideologues to Supreme Court justices to human rights advocates The simple insight that rights are expensive reminds us that freedom is not violated by a government that taxes and spends, but requires it and requires a citizenry vigilant about how money is allocated Laying bare the folly of some of our most cherished myths about rights, this groundbreaking tract will permanently change the terms of our most critical and contentious political debates
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Stephen Holmes is Walter E Meyer Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.Holmes research centers on the history of European liberalism, the disappointments of democracy and economic liberalization after communism, and the difficulty of combating international Salafi terrorism within the bounds of the Constitution and the rule of law In 1988, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship Stephen Holmes is Walter E Meyer Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.Holmes research centers on the history of European liberalism, the disappointments of democracy and economic liberalization after communism, and the difficulty of combating international Salafi terrorism within the bounds of the Constitution and the rule of law In 1988, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship to complete a study of the theoretical foundations of liberal democracy He was a member of the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin during the 1991 92 academic year He was named a Carnegie Scholar in 2003 2005 for his work on Russian legal reform Besides numerous articles on the history of political thought, democratic and constitutional theory, state building in post communist Russia, and the war on terror, his publications include Benjamin Constant and the Making of Modern Liberalism 1984 Anatomy of Antiliberalism 1993 Passions and Constraint The Theory of Liberal Democracy 1995 The Cost of Rights, coauthored, with Cass Sunstein 1998 and Matador s Cape America s Reckless Response to Terror 2007 After receiving his Ph.D from Yale in 1976, Holmes b 1948 taught briefly at Yale and Wesleyan Universities before becoming a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton in 1978 He next moved to Harvard University s Department of Government, where he stayed until 1985, the year he joined the faculty at the University of Chicago where he taught, in both the Political Science Department and the Law School, until 1997 From 1997 2000, Holmes was Professor of Politics at Princeton University In 2000, he moved to New York University School of Law where he is currently Walter E Meyer Professor of Law and faculty co director of the Center on Law and Security.At the University of Chicago, Holmes was Director of the Center for the Study of Constitutionalism in Eastern Europe At Chicago and NYU he also served and as editor in chief of the East European Constitutional Review 1993 2003 In addition, he has also been the Director of the Soros Foundation program for promoting legal reform in Russia and Eastern Europe 1994 96
Passions and Constraint: On the Theory of Liberal Democracy
The Anatomy of Antiliberalism
The Matador's Cape: America's Reckless Response to Terror
Benjamin Constant et la genèse du libéralisme moderne
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2016-01-18T16:40+01:00All legally enforceable rights cost money A practical, commonsense notion Yes, but one ignored by almost everyone, from libertarian ideologues to Supr The Cost of RightsStephen Holmes255 pagesStephen Holmes
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