Presents a comprehensive and critical survey of republican political theory. This book assesses its historical credentials, conceptual coherence, and normative proposals. It offers the reader with valuable insight into fresh debates that are taking place in republican political theory.

"Republicanism and Political Theory" is the first book to offer a comprehensive and critical survey of republican political theory. It critically assesses its historical credentials, conceptual coherence, and normative proposals. It brings together original contributions from leading international scholars in an interactive way. It provides the reader with valuable insight into new debates taking place in republican political theory.

Notes on Contributors.The Republican Contribution to Contemporary Political Theory: Cecile Laborde (University College London) and John Maynor (Middle Tennessee State University).Part I: Republican Freedom and its Critics:.1. Liberty and Domination: Matthew Kramer (University of Cambridge).2. How are Power and Unfreedom Related?: Ian Carter (University of Pavia).3. Freedom as the Absence of Arbitrary Power: Quentin Skinner (University of Cambridge).4. Republican Freedom: Three Axioms, Four Theorems: Philip Pettit (Princeton University).Part II: Republicanism, Democracy and Citizenship:.5. Republican Citizenship, Nationality and Europe: David Miller (University of Oxford).6. Republicanism and Constitutionalism: Richard Bellamy (University College London).7. Non-Domination and Transnational Democracy: James Bohman (St Louis University).Part III: Republicanism, Rights and Domination:.8. Republican Punishment, Consequentialist or Retributive?: Richard Dagger (Arizona State University).9. Pettit's Civic Republicanism and Male Domination: Marilyn Friedman (Washington University, St Louis, Missouri).Index