Republican freedom is freedom from domination juxtaposed to negative freedom as freedom from interference. Proponents … argue that republican freedom is superior since it highlights that individuals lose freedoms even when they are not subject … to interference, and claim republican freedom is more ‘resilient’. Republican freedom is trivalent, that is, it …

This article explores some implications of the counterfactual aspect of freedom and unfreedom. Because actions can be … are thus not overtly thwarted, any adequate account of negative liberty must ponder numerous counterfactual chains of … events. Each person's freedom or unfreedom is affected not only by what others in fact do, but also by what they are disposed …

questions about the place of freedom and entitlement in development. Depending on the balance between free choices and more … empirical evidence tends to support the idea that economic freedom and civil and political liberties are the root causes of why … findings that, beyond core functions of government responsibility (including the protection of liberty itself), the expansion …

Hobbes made a distinctive contribution to the discussion of freedom on two fronts. He persuaded later, if not immediate …, successors that it is only the exercise of a power of interference that reduces people’s freedom, not its (unexercised … interference always reduces freedom in the same way, whether it occurs in a republican democracy, purportedly on a â …