In what follows I refer to the idealized distinction between the "liberal"
and the "republican" understanding of politics-terms which
ในสิ่งต่อไปนี้ผมหมายถึงความแตกต่างที่เงียบสงบระหว่าง "เสรีนิยม"
และความเข้าใจ "รีพับลิกัน" ของการเมืองแง่ที่
The crucial difference between liberalism and republicanism consists
in how the role of the democratic process is understood. According
to the "liberal" view, this process accomplishes the task of
programming the state in the interest of society, where the state is
conceived as an apparatus of public administration, and society is
conceived as a system of market-structured interactions of private
persons and their labor. Here politics (in the sense of the citizens'
political will-formation) has the function of bundling together and
bringing to bear private social interests against a state apparatus that
specializes in the administrative employment of political power for
collective goals.