ABSTRACT
My paper is in three sections. First, I argue that there are some fine-grained revisions that Dahl’s analysis needs; this discussion is slightly technical and some readers may prefer to skip it. Second, I argue that the amended Dahlian analysis can be usefully extended beyond the paradigm case on which he focuses, where punctual targets and tactics are involved. Third, I show that there are two important distinctions to be made within the emerging category of power or control and that, with those distinctions made, the category enables us to define republican freedom. The distinctions are between congenial and uncongenial forms of control and between controlled and uncontrolled, or non-arbitrary and arbitrary, versions of uncongenial control. According to the analysis presented, someone will be free in a given choice to the extent that no one exercises uncongenial, uncontrolled control over that choice.
