論文

査読有り
2016年9月

Toward Modelling a Global Social Contract: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke

JAPANESE JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
  • Takashi Inoguchi
  • ,
  • Lien Thi Quynh Le

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開始ページ
489
終了ページ
522
記述言語
英語
掲載種別
研究論文(学術雑誌)
DOI
10.1017/S1468109916000207
出版者・発行元
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS

The paper attempts to construct a global model of a social contract using well-known metaphors of two great philosophers: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and John Locke. By modelling a global social contract, I mean the formulation of a social contract using two sets of data: one is global citizens' preferences about values and norms while the other is sovereign states' participation in multilateral treaties. Both Rousseau and Locke formulate their versions of social contract theories in the national context of eighteenth-century Europe. This paper tries my hands on extending their theories to the global context. This paper attempts to link empirically the relationship between global citizens' preferences as gauged by the World Values Survey and sovereign states' participation in 120 multilateral treaties deposited to the United Nations. To see the link between citizens and treaties (quasi-legislative outcomes, sort of), dimensional similarities of the cosmos of citizens' preference and the cosmos of sovereign states' willingness to join multilateral treaties are examined. Once done, all the sovereign states are located in each of the two cosmoses, citizens and states, and the correlation coefficients between them are measured. Based on these empirical results, the nature of the global quasi-legislative process is clarified. Conclusions and implications are drawn.

リンク情報
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1468109916000207
Web of Science
https://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcAuth=JSTA_CEL&SrcApp=J_Gate_JST&DestLinkType=FullRecord&KeyUT=WOS:000382883200008&DestApp=WOS_CPL
ID情報
  • DOI : 10.1017/S1468109916000207
  • ISSN : 1468-1099
  • eISSN : 1474-0060
  • Web of Science ID : WOS:000382883200008

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