The Political Economy of Decentralised Federalism: A Historical and Analytical Account of Classical Anarchist Constitutional Design

分权联邦制的政治经济学：古典无政府主义宪法设计的历史和分析说明

• 批准号: 2726807
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: UNIVERSITY OF EXETER
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2726807
• 关键词: Political; Economy; Decentralised; Federalism; Historical

This project starts with the claim that the anarchist political economy of decentralised federalism is relevant to our contemporary political problems today, more than ever. Classical anarchists envisioned and described the type of political systems that can both emancipate people from the structures of political and economic oppression, and remove the coercive, centralised, punitive, and exploitative agency of the nation state. To date, research on anarchism has either focused on the history of anarchist thought, or anarchist currents in new social movements. This project will, however, develop ground breaking research that explores anarchism as a constitutional politics. It will add to this historical andtheoretical recovery, by specifying and evaluating, analytically, the alternative institutional design to the state that we find in that classical anarchist literature. The contribution to mainstream political philosophy is also clear: the political economy of decentralised federalism enriches our political imaginations. In particular, this project speaks to questions of devolution, asymmetric federalism, protection of minority rights, subsidiarity, equality and different meanings of 'takingback control' in the context of post-Brexit Britain.This project proposes to reconcile a libertarian socialist account of freedom and equality with non-statist constitutional design principles. This involves unpacking an anarchist political economy of decentralised federalism, which is anti-capitalist. This research thus speaks to the libertarian requirements for freedom and the republican defence of constitutional restraints on power while bringing to light an under-appreciated tradition of anti-statism in the history of political thought.The primary research question for this thesis is 'How and in what way does an anarchist political economy of decentralised federalism balance the demands of liberty and equality?' To answer this question, I will aim to demonstrate that the political economy of decentralised federalism reconciles liberty and equality on left-libertarian terms and meets republican defences of freedom without its attendant statism. By showing the real world applicability of this model, with examples drawn from a number of contemporary settings, this thesis will move us towards a more grounded, realist, and institutional design driven 'political political theory', which is motivated to rebuild more just, equal, and free institutionsbeyond the narrowly defined existing notions of private property and state.This PhD thesis will provide a philosophically rigorous account of the principles that underpin the constitutional political economy of decentralised federalism. By exploring classical anarchists, and putting their ideas into communication with contemporary republicanism and libertarianism, the PhD research will challenge political and constitutional theorists to take anarchism more seriously. However, throughout my dissertation, I will show that anarchist constitutional theory has the potential of going further than that by providing a useful resource for public policy and real politics. The historical account of decentralised federalism can reinform and improve our modern political discussions by showing alternative institutional and constitutional arrangements that can motivate political theorists and policy-makers towards rebuilding more just, equal, and free institutions beyond the narrowly defined existing notions of private property and state.With historical textual analysis and analytical methods such as rational reconstruction, I will critically assess the contribution of anarchist theory of property rights and decentralised federalism to contemporary debates in politics and political theory, and improve the understanding of the key concepts and arguments in anarchist political thought with an explanatory approach and conceptual clarity.

这个项目始于这样一个主张，即分散联邦制的无政府主义政治经济学与我们今天的当代政治问题比以往任何时候都更相关。古典无政府主义者设想并描述了一种政治制度，这种制度既可以将人们从政治和经济压迫的结构中解放出来，又可以消除民族国家的强制性、中央集权、惩罚性和剥削性机构。到目前为止，对无政府主义的研究要么集中在无政府主义思想史上，要么集中在新社会运动中的无政府主义潮流上。然而，这个项目将发展开创性的研究，探索无政府主义作为一种宪政。它将通过具体化和评估，分析性地，对我们在古典无政府主义文献中发现的国家的替代制度设计，来增加这种历史和理论的恢复。对主流政治哲学的贡献也是显而易见的：分散联邦制的政治经济学丰富了我们的政治想象力。特别是，这个项目谈到了权力下放，不对称的联邦制，保护少数人的权利，辅助性，平等和“收回控制权”在后Brexit英国的背景下的不同含义的问题。这个项目建议调和自由和平等的自由意志主义社会主义帐户与非国家主义的宪法设计原则。这涉及到拆解一种反资本主义的分散联邦制的无政府主义政治经济。因此，这项研究谈到了自由主义的自由和宪法对权力的限制，而共和党的辩护，揭示了一个不被重视的传统，反自由主义的政治思想史。本论文的主要研究问题是“如何以及以何种方式做一个无政府主义的分散联邦制的政治经济平衡的自由和平等的要求？为了回答这个问题，我的目标是证明分散联邦制的政治经济学在左翼自由主义的条件下调和了自由和平等，并在没有随之而来的自由主义的情况下满足了共和党对自由的捍卫。通过展示这一模型在真实的世界中的适用性，并结合一些当代环境中的例子，本文将把我们推向一个更接地气、更现实、更制度设计驱动的“政治政治理论”，这一理论的动机是重建一个更公正、平等、和自由的制度超越了狭义的私有财产和国家的现有概念。这篇博士论文将提供一个严格的解释，这些原则是分权联邦制的宪政政治经济学的基础。通过探索古典无政府主义者，并将他们的思想与当代共和主义和自由意志主义进行交流，博士研究将挑战政治和宪法理论家更认真地对待无政府主义。然而，在我的整个论文中，我将表明，无政府主义宪政理论有可能走得更远，为公共政策和真实的政治提供有用的资源。对分权联邦制的历史叙述可以通过展示替代性的制度和宪法安排来重塑和改善我们的现代政治讨论，这些安排可以激励政治理论家和政策制定者超越狭隘的私有财产和国家的现有概念，重建更公正、平等和自由的制度。我将批判性地评估财产权和分散的联邦主义的无政府主义理论对当代政治和政治理论辩论的贡献，并通过解释性方法和概念清晰度提高对无政府主义政治思想中关键概念和论点的理解。