TY - JOUR
T1 - Governmental power: Quality or identity?
T2 - comment on Alon Harel's argument against outsourcing violence
AU - Segev, Re'Em
PY - 2011/10
Y1 - 2011/10
N2 - What is the appropriate division of power between public officials and private individuals? The straightforward answer to this question, it seems, is that an official should have a power if she employs it (morally) better compared to a private individual. However, Alon Harel argues that this answer is misguided, or at least partially, since there are some decisions-mainly concerning the employment of violence-that should be made and implemented only by public officials regardless of the (relative) moral quality of the decision or action. In this comment I consider and criticize this argument.
AB - What is the appropriate division of power between public officials and private individuals? The straightforward answer to this question, it seems, is that an official should have a power if she employs it (morally) better compared to a private individual. However, Alon Harel argues that this answer is misguided, or at least partially, since there are some decisions-mainly concerning the employment of violence-that should be made and implemented only by public officials regardless of the (relative) moral quality of the decision or action. In this comment I consider and criticize this argument.
KW - Alon Harel
KW - comment
KW - inherently governmental functions
KW - outsourcing violence
KW - private entities
KW - societal decisions
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=80855164556&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.2202/1938-2545.1064
DO - 10.2202/1938-2545.1064
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AN - SCOPUS:80855164556
SN - 1938-2545
VL - 5
SP - 415
EP - 423
JO - Law and Ethics of Human Rights
JF - Law and Ethics of Human Rights
IS - 2
M1 - 7
ER -