Democracy and equality

Philosophical Quarterly

Volumn 57, Issue 228, 2007, Pages 416-438

  Wall, Steven ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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References (26)

1. See, among others, C. Beitz, Political Equality (Princeton UP, 1989)
2. H. Brighouse, 'Egalitarianism and Equal Availability of Political Influence', Journal of Political Philosophy, 4 (1996), pp. 118-41
3. A. Buchanan, 'Political Legitimacy and Democracy', Ethics, 112 (2002), pp. 689-719
4. T. Christiano, The Rule of the Many (Boulder: Westview, 1999)
5. J. Cohen, 'For a Democratic Society', in S. Freeman (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Rawls (Cambridge UP, 2003), pp. 86-138
6. J. Waldron, Law and Disagreement (Oxford UP, 1999)
7. J.S. Mill, Utilitarianism, On Liberty, and Considerations on Representative Government, ed. H.B. Acton (London: Dent, 1987), p. 306
8. R. Arneson, 'Democratic Rights at National and Workplace Levels', in D. Copp, J. Hampton and J. Roemer (eds), The Idea of Democracy (Cambridge UP, 1993), pp. 118-47, at p. 120
9. Buchanan, 'Political Legitimacy and Democracy', p. 710
10. I. Shapiro, Democracy's Place (Cornell UP, 1996), pp. 49-52
11. Brighouse, 'Egalitarianism and Equal Availability of Political Influence', pp. 119-20
12. Cohen, 'For a Democratic Society', p. 92
13. E. Anderson, 'What is the Point of Equality?', Ethics, 109 (1999), pp. 287-337, at pp. 312-13
14. See also Arneson, 'Democratic Rights at National and Workplace Levels', pp. 120-2
15. R. Dworkin, 'Political Equality', repr. in his Sovereign Virtue (Harvard UP, 2000), pp. 194-8
16. See Mill, Utilitarianism, On Liberty, and Considerations on Representative Government, pp. 323-39
17. A distinction of this sort is drawn by Dworkin, 'Political Equality', pp. 203-5
18. See also J. Raz, 'Liberalism, Scepticism and Democracy', repr. in his Ethics in the Public Domain (Oxford UP, 1994), pp. 97-124, at pp. 116-17
19. For this point, see T. Christiano, 'Knowledge and Power in the Justification of Democracy', Australasian Journal of Philosophy, 79 (2001), pp. 197-215, at p. 200, fn. 13
20. See, for example, M. Walzer, Spheres of Justice (New York: Basic Books, 1983), pp. 304-7
21. J. Rawls, Political Liberalism (Columbia UP, 1993), p. 327
22. Brighouse, 'Egalitarianism and the Availability of Political Influence', p. 123
23. See Rawls, Political Liberalism. For a helpful reconstruction of the argument see Cohen, 'For a Democratic Society', pp. 108-11
24. See Christiano, 'Knowledge and Power in the Justification of Democracy', pp. 208-11; Waldron, Law and Disagreement (Oxford UP, 1999), pp. 204-8
25. See Christiano, 'Knowledge and Power in the Justification of Democracy', pp. 205-6
26. Democratic instrumentalists may want to press for procedural reforms that would have the same effect as a deviation from equal votes. For imaginative discussion along these lines, see P. van Parijs, 'The Disfranchisement of the Elderly, and Other Attempts to Secure Intergenerational Justice', Philosophy and Public Affairs, 27 (1998), pp. 292-333