Pure Negative Liberty and the Measurement of Freedom

• In Event: Constitutionalism, Republicanism, and Ordered Liberty

Brief Overview

Our paper critiques the pure negative liberty theory on the grounds that it cannot properly measure overall freedom, and therefore it cannot capture basic intuitions such as the intuition that credible threats reduce freedom.

Authors

• Sean Ingham, University of California, San Diego

• Frank Lovett, Washington University in St Louis