A Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapatero's Spain

Pettit, Philip; Martí, José Luis

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A Political Philosophy in Public Life: Civic Republicanism in Zapatero's Spain

Date

2012

Authors

Pettit, Philip

Martí, José Luis

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Abstract

This book examines an unlikely development in modern political philosophy: the adoption by a major national government of the ideas of a living political theorist. When José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero became Spain's opposition leader in 2000, he pledged th