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Online-Ressource (324 p.)
ISBN:
9780691143248
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Democracy is not naturally plausible. Why turn such important matters over to masses of people who have no expertise? Many theories of democracy answer by appealing to the intrinsic value of democratic procedure, leaving aside whether it makes good decisions. In Democratic Authority, David Estlund offers a groundbreaking alternative based on the idea that democratic authority and legitimacy must depend partly on democracy's tendency to make good decisions. Just as with verdicts in jury trials, Estlund argues, the authority and legitimacy of a political decision does not depend on the particu
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface; CHAPTER I: Democratic Authority; CHAPTER II: Truth and Despotism; CHAPTER III: An Acceptability Requirement; CHAPTER IV: The Limits of Fair Procedure; CHAPTER V: The Flight from Substance; CHAPTER VI: Epistemic Proceduralism; CHAPTER VII: Authority and Normative Consent; CHAPTER VIII: Original Authority and the Democracy/Jury Analogy; CHAPTER IX: How Would Democracy Know?; CHAPTER X: The Real Speech Situation; CHAPTER XI: Why Not an Epistocracy of the Educated?; CHAPTER XII: The Irrelevance of the Jury Theorem
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CHAPTER XIII: Rejecting the Democracy/Contractualism AnalogyCHAPTER XIV: Utopophobia: Concession and Aspiration in Democratic Theory; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400831548
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691143248
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Democratic Authority : A Philosophical Framework
Language:
English
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