Format:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
2365-9858
Content:
Abstract: This paper establishes moral duties for intermediaries of political advertising in election campaigns. First, I argue for a collective duty to maintain the democratic quality of elections which entails a duty to contain some forms of political polarization. Second, I show that the focus of campaign ethics on candidates, parties and voters—ignoring the mediators of campaigns—yields mistaken conclusions about how the burdens of the latter collective duty should be distributed. Third, I show why it is fair to require intermediaries to contribute to fulfilling this duty: they have an ultimate filtering position in the campaign communication process and typically benefit from political advertising and polarization. Finally, I argue that a transparency-based ethics of campaign advertising cannot properly accommodate a concern with objectionable polarization. By contrast, I outline the polarization-containing implications of my account, including a prohibition on online targeted advertising, and intermediaries’ duties to block hateful political advertising.
In:
volume:45
In:
number:1
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year:2023
In:
pages:111-135
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extent:25
In:
Analyse & Kritik, Berlin : De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 1979-, 45, Heft 1 (2023), 111-135 (gesamt 25), 2365-9858
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/auk-2023-2007
URN:
urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023060914124521308920
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/auk-2023-2007
URL:
https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:101:1-2023060914124521308920
URL:
https://d-nb.info/1292520396/34
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