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Author : Wojciech Sadurski
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (535 download)
Download or read book Majority Rule, Legitimacy and Political Equality written by Wojciech Sadurski and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Wojciech Sadurski
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book Legitimacy, Political Equality, and Majority Rule written by Wojciech Sadurski and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper claims that the intuitive and widespread legitimating power of majority rule (MR) arises from the link between majority rule and the principle of equality of political opportunity. The egalitarian character of MR is established by exploring puzzles in democratic theory, such as the insensitivity of democratic voting procedures to unequal intensity of citizens' preferences, and the relationship between the principle of unanimity (sometimes thought better to respect citizens' equality) and MR. Special attention is directed to the relationship between political equality and equality in the outcomes of political decisions: The claim is made that the language of equal political opportunity captures well the idea of equal political influence, in the circumstance of disagreement about what is required to achieve equal treatment through the outcomes of political decisions.
Author : Wojciech Sadurski
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191562769
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Equality and Legitimacy written by Wojciech Sadurski and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-05-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the relationship between the idea of legitimacy of law in a democratic system and equality, conceived in a tripartite sense: political, legal, and social. Exploring the constituent elements of the legal philosophy underlying concepts of legitimacy, this book seeks to demonstrate how a conception of democratic legitimacy is necessary for understanding and reconciling equality and political legitimacy by tracing and examining the conceptions of equality in political, legal, and social dimensions. In the sphere of political equality this book argues that the best construction of equality in a democratic system - which resonates with the legitimizing function of majority rule - is that of equality of political opportunity. It is largely procedural, but those procedures represent important substantive values built into a majoritarian system. In the sphere of legal equality it argues that a plausible conception of non-discrimination can be constructed through a "reflective equilibrium" process, and should reject a thoughtless assumption that the presence of some particular criteria of differentiations necessarily taints a legal classification as discriminatory. Finally, the chapters on social equality explore, in some detail, the currently influential, and presumptively attractive, "luck egalitarianism": the idea that social equality calls for neutralizing the disparate effects of bad brute luck upon a person's position in society.
Author : Wojciech Sadurski
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN 13 : 0199545170
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Equality and Legitimacy written by Wojciech Sadurski and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2008 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text examines the relationship between the idea of legitimacy of law in a democratic system and equality. It seeks to demonstrate how a conception of democratic legitimacy is necessary for understanding and reconciling equality and political legitimacy.
Author : Arthur Isak Applbaum
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674241932
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)
Download or read book Legitimacy written by Arthur Isak Applbaum and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At an unsettled time for liberal democracy, with global eruptions of authoritarian and arbitrary rule, here is one of the first full-fledged philosophical accounts of what makes governments legitimate. What makes a government legitimate? The dominant view is that public officials have the right to rule us, even if they are unfair or unfit, as long as they gain power through procedures traceable to the consent of the governed. In this rigorous and timely study, Arthur Isak Applbaum argues that adherence to procedure is not enough: even a properly chosen government does not rule legitimately if it fails to protect basic rights, to treat its citizens as political equals, or to act coherently. How are we to reconcile every person’s entitlement to freedom with the necessity of coercive law? Applbaum’s answer is that a government legitimately governs its citizens only if the government is a free group agent constituted by free citizens. To be a such a group agent, a government must uphold three principles. The liberty principle, requiring that the basic rights of citizens be secured, is necessary to protect against inhumanity, a tyranny in practice. The equality principle, requiring that citizens have equal say in selecting who governs, is necessary to protect against despotism, a tyranny in title. The agency principle, requiring that a government’s actions reflect its decisions and its decisions reflect its reasons, is necessary to protect against wantonism, a tyranny of unreason. Today, Applbaum writes, the greatest threat to the established democracies is neither inhumanity nor despotism but wantonism, the domination of citizens by incoherent, inconstant, and incontinent rulers. A government that cannot govern itself cannot legitimately govern others.
Author : Elaine Spitz
Publisher : Chatham House Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Majority Rule written by Elaine Spitz and published by Chatham House Publishers. This book was released on 1984 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Rebecca L. Brown
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (137 download)
Download or read book The Logic of Majority Rule written by Rebecca L. Brown and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courts, constitutional doctrine, and democratic theory all give a place of privilege and respect to the role of political actors in the constitutional system. In a host of different ways, the decisions of political actors receive deference. At a theoretical level, this approach is justified by a widespread, if not universal, belief that majority rule plays a significant role in the legitimacy of democratic government. This essay explores the theoretical bases of that belief in majority rule. Following several different schools of thought - all of which accord significant respect to majority rule - the paper identifies equality as the core commitment of all schools that animates their commitment to majority rule as a preferred rule of decision. Each school, however, imposes limitations on how far it is willing to apply the principle of equality. This essay argues that, if one abandons these artificial limitations and instead follows a commitment to equality to its logical limits, equality leads, not only to majority rule itself, but also to a limit on majority rule. That limit is the exposure of majority-backed decisions to a requirement of public reason, of non-arbitrary justification for those subject to its constraints. This requirement, at the core of liberty protection under the due process clause, fulfills, rather than frustrates, the principles underlying the privileged status of majority rule.
Author : Thomas Christiano
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191613916
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (916 download)
Download or read book The Constitution of Equality written by Thomas Christiano and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2010-06-10 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the ethical basis of democracy? And what reasons do we have to go along with democratic decisions even when we disagree with them? And when do we have reason to say that we may justly ignore democratic decisions? These questions must be answered if we are to have answers to some of the most important questions facing our global community, which include whether there is a human right to democracy and whether we must attempt to spread democracy throughout the globe. This book provides a philosophical account of the moral foundations of democracy and of liberalism. It shows how democracy and basic liberal rights are grounded in the principle of public equality, which tells us that in the establishment of law and policy we must treat persons as equals in ways they can see are treating them as equals. The principle of public equality is shown to be the fundamental principle of social justice. This account enables us to understand the nature and roles of adversarial politics and public deliberation in political life. It gives an account of the grounds of the authority of democracy. It also shows when the authority of democracy runs out. The author shows how the violations of democratic and liberal rights are beyond the legitimate authority of democracy, how the creation of persistent minorities in a democratic society, and the failure to ensure a basic minimum for all persons weaken the legitimate authority of democracy.
Author : Anthony J McGann
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Total Pages : 28 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (197 download)
Download or read book The Tyranny of the Super Majority written by Anthony J McGann and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Estlund
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195376692
Total Pages : 457 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Political Philosophy written by David Estlund and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012-07-19 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume includes 22 new pieces by leading political philosophers, on traditional issues (such as authority and equality) and emerging issues (such as race, and money in politics). The pieces are clear and accessible will interest both students and scholars working in philosophy, political science, law, economics, and more.
Author : Jorge Valadez
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429980698
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Deliberative Democracy, Political Legitimacy, And Self-determination In Multi-cultural Societies written by Jorge Valadez and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-09 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most foundational works in political philosophy have made fundamentally false and far-reaching assumptions concerning the culturally homogeneous character of the polity.Deliberative Democracy, Political Legitimacy, andSelf-Determination in Multicultural Societies provides a much needed corrective to conventional accounts of the normative foundations of the state by reconceptualizing some of the fundamental issues in political theory from a perspective that recognizes the culturally pluralistic character of contemporary democracies. Among the issues considered are democratic deliberation in multicultural societies, the justification and function of political communities, the nature of self-determination, the justification of cultural rights, and the moral rationale for regional self-governance and secession. This work is suitable for graduate and upper-division undergraduate courses in political philosophy and political science, as well as the lay reader interested in understanding the major sources of conflict and instability in democratic societies.
Author : Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198803567
Total Pages : 737 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)
Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Populism written by Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2017 with total page 737 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Oxford Handbook of Populism presents the state of the art of research on populism from the perspective of Political Science. The book features work from the leading experts in the field, and synthesizes the main strands of research in four compact sections: concepts, issues, regions, and normative debates. Due to its breath, The Oxford Handbook of Populism is an invaluable resource for those interested in the study of populism, but also forexperts in each of the topics discussed, who will benefit from accounts of current discussions and research gaps, as well as a map of new directions in the study of populism.
Author : James Bohman
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262522410
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (224 download)
Download or read book Deliberative Democracy written by James Bohman and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1997 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributions in this anthology address tensions that arise between reason and politics in a democracy inspired by the ideal of achieving reasoned agreement among free and equal citizens.
Author : Robert A. Dahl
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Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Democracy in the United States: Promise and Performance written by Robert A. Dahl and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Robert A. Burt
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674165366
Total Pages : 492 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (653 download)
Download or read book The Constitution in Conflict written by Robert A. Burt and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a remarkably innovative reconstruction of constitutional history, Robert Burt traces the controversy over judicial supremacy back to the founding fathers. Also drawing extensively on Lincoln's conception of political equality, Burt argues convincingly that judicial supremacy and majority rule are both inconsistent with the egalitarian democratic ideal. The first fully articulated presentation of the Constitution as a communally interpreted document in which the Supreme Court plays an important but not predominant role, The Constitution in Conflict has dramatic implications for both the theory and the practice of constitutional law.
Author : Rutger Claassen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108473261
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Capabilities in a Just Society written by Rutger Claassen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-04 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new theory of social justice arguing that people have rights to the core human capabilities necessary for 'navigational agency'.
Author : Anthony J. McGann
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780472099498
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (994 download)
Download or read book The Logic of Democracy written by Anthony J. McGann and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does democracy work?
