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general will

Description: A concept in political philosophy describing the collective will directed toward the common good rather than the sum of individual interests.
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Rousseau's General Will: A Condorcetian Perspective
1988 · Bernard Grofman, Scott L. Feld · American Political Science Review · 462
Populism
2017 · Cas Mudde · Oxford University Press eBooks · 366
Beyond Fairness and Deliberation: The Epistemic Dimension of Democratic Authority
1997 · David Estlund · The MIT Press eBooks · 260
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Lectures on the history of political philosophy
2007 · Rawls, John 1921-2002, Freeman, Samuel Richard · Choice Reviews Online · 233
Occasionalism and General Will in Malebranche
1993 · Steven M. Nadler · Journal of the history of philosophy · 223
Discourse on political economy and The social contract
1994 · Jean‐Jacques Rousseau · 219
The political philosophy of the British idealists: selected studies
1990 · Choice Reviews Online · 208
Rousseau
2010 · Joshua Cohen · Oxford University Press eBooks · 204
Democratic Theory and the Public Interest: Condorcet and Rousseau Revisited
1989 · David M. Estlund, Jeremy Waldron, et al. · American Political Science Review · 191
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General Will or Deliberation?
1985 · Manin, Bernard · Cairn.info · 190
Foundations of Hegel's Social Theory: Actualizing Freedom
2002 · Terry Pinkard, Frederick Neuhouser · The Philosophical Review · 180
Social contract theory
1990 · Michael Lessnoff · Medical Entomology and Zoology · 154
Assessing the diversity of anti-establishment and populist politics in Central and Eastern Europe
2019 · Sarah Engler, Bartek Pytlas, et al. · West European Politics · 136
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The French Idea of Freedom: The Old Regime and the Declaration of Rights of 1789
1999 · Jeremy D. Popkin, Dale Van Kley · The American Historical Review · 133
The General Will before Rousseau: The Transformation of the Divine into the Civic
1988 · Patrick Riley · Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) · 133
The Philosophical Theory of the State.
1911 · S. W. Dyde, Bernard Bosanquet · The Philosophical Review · 127
The General Will before Rousseau
2015 · Patrick Riley · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 125
Love at first sight? Populist attitudes and support for direct democracy
2019 · Steffen Mohrenberg, Robert A Huber, et al. · Party Politics · 123
Freedom, Dependence, and the General Will
1993 · Frederick Neuhouser · The Philosophical Review · 122
The nexus of populism and foreign policy: The case of Latin America
2020 · Leslie E Wehner, Cameron G Thies · International Relations · 113
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The General Will before Rousseau
1988 · Patrick Riley · Princeton University Press eBooks · 111
At the Edge
2002 · WENDY BROWN · Political Theory · 109
The Philosophical Theory of the State
2012 · Bernard Bosanquet · Cambridge University Press eBooks · 88
Vi.—games, Justice and the General Will
1965 · W. G. RUNCIMAN, AMARTYA K. SEN · Mind · 85
Idealism and Rights: The Social Ontology of Human Rights in the Political Thought of Bernard Bosanquet
1996 · William Sweet · 84
Works count: 2,560
Citation count: 9,319
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