McTernan, Emily (2014) How to make citizens behave: social psychology, Liberal virtues, and social norms. Journal of Political Philosophy, 22 (1). pp. 84-104. ISSN 0963-8016
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It is widely conceded by liberals that institutions alone are insufficient to ensure that citizens behave in the ways required for a liberal state to flourish, be stable, or function at all. A popular solution proposes cultivating virtues in order to secure the desired behaviours of citizens, where institutions alone would not suffice. A range of virtues are proposed to fill a variety of purportedgaps in the liberal political order. Some appeal to virtues in order to secure state stability; Rawls, for instance, claims that ‘citizens must have a sense of justice and the political virtues that support political and social institutions’ in order to ensure an ‘enduring society’. For Galston, citizens must possess a range of virtues in order for the state to function, including the virtues of courage, independence, tolerance, willingness to engage in public discourse, and law-abidingness.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(IS... |
| Additional Information: | © 2014 John Wiley & Sons |
| Divisions: | Philosophy, Logic and Scientific Method |
| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HM Sociology J Political Science > JC Political theory J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jul 2013 13:44 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Oct 2025 08:00 |
| Funders: | King's College, Cambridge |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/50961 |
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