Responsible Citizens, Irresponsible States: Should Citizens Pay for Their State’s Wrongdoings?
When a state is ordered to compensate its victims, who actually pays?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Responsible Citizens, Irresponsible States: Should Citizens Pay for Their State’s Wrongdoings? by Avia Pasternak as our lens, this investigation examines the distributive effect of state responsibility—the process by which obligations assigned to a state ultimately fall on the people living within it.
Pasternak treats states as corporate moral agents capable of incurring obligations to repair the harms they cause. But reparations and…
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