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Political freedom (also known as political autonomy or political agency) is a central concept in history and political thought and one of the most important features of democratic societies.^[1] Political freedom has been described as freedom from oppression^[2] or coercion,^[3] the absence of disabling conditions for an individual and the fulfillment of enabling conditions,^[4] or the absence of life conditions of compulsion, e.g. economic compulsion, in a society.^[5] Although political freedom is often interpreted negatively as the freedom from unreasonable external constraints on action,^[6] it can also refer to the positive exercise of rights, capacities and possibilities for action and the exercise of social or group rights.^[7] The concept can also include freedom from internal constraints on political action or speech (e.g. social conformity, consistency, or inauthentic behaviour).^[8] The concept of political freedom is closely connected with the concepts of civil liberties and human rights, which in democratic societies are usually afforded legal protection from the state.

^ Hannah Arendt, "What is Freedom?", Between Past and Future: Eight Exercises in Political Thought, (New York: Penguin, 1993).
^ Iris Marion Young, "Five Faces of Oppression", Justice and the Politics of Difference (Princeton University press, 1990), 39–65.
^ Michael Sandel, Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do? (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2010).
^ Amartya Sen, Development as Freedom (Anchor Books, 2000).
^ Karl Marx, "Alienated Labour" in Early Writings.
^ Isaiah Berlin, Liberty (Oxford 2004).
^ Charles Taylor, "What's Wrong With Negative Liberty?", Philosophy and the Human Sciences: Philosophical Papers (Cambridge, 1985), 211–229.
^ Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Self-Reliance Archived 2011-03-23 at the Wayback Machine"; Nikolas Kompridis, "Struggling Over the Meaning of Recognition: A Matter of Identity, Justice or Freedom?" in European Journal of Political Theory July 2007 vol. 6 no. 3 pp. 277–289.

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