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Dethroning democratic legitimacy
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Stemplowska, Zofia and Swift, Adam (2018) Dethroning democratic legitimacy. In: Sobel, David and Vallentyne, Peter and Wall, Steven, (eds.) Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy. Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy, 4 . New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198813972
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Abstract
The chapter considers the contributions made by democratic legitimacy and social justice to the question of what may permissibly be enforced. According to the conventional view, democratic decisions forfeit their claim to permissible enforceability only when they are gravely unjust. That view is rejected here as unduly restrictive, with a “balancing” view proposed instead, according to which the two considerations need to be balanced on a case-by-case basis. Both the provenance and the content of decisions yield pro tanto reasons: which determines the permissibility of enforcement depends on whether we have greater reason in any given case to advance legitimacy or justice. A democratically legitimate law or policy need not be gravely unjust for it to be wrong to enforce it.
Item Type: | Book Item | ||||||
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Subjects: | J Political Science > JC Political theory | ||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Politics and International Studies | ||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Democracy, Justice, Equality | ||||||
Series Name: | Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy | ||||||
Publisher: | Oxford University Press | ||||||
Place of Publication: | New York | ||||||
ISBN: | 9780198813972 | ||||||
Book Title: | Oxford Studies in Political Philosophy | ||||||
Editor: | Sobel, David and Vallentyne, Peter and Wall, Steven | ||||||
Official Date: | 18 March 2018 | ||||||
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Volume: | 4 | ||||||
Number of Pages: | 272 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 26 June 2017 | ||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 26 June 2017 |
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