Political Quality

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23135075
AutoresDavid Estlund (John Brown University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2000
Volumen17
Número1
Páginas127-160
Fecha de publicación2000-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaSocial Philosophy and Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0265-0525 • E-ISSN: 1471-6437
EditorialCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0265052500002569
OpenAlexW4250294983
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas15
Referencias citadas13

Political equality is in tension with political quality, and quality has recently been neglected. My thesis is that proper attention to the quality of democratic procedures and their outcomes requires that we accept substantive inequalities of political input in the interest of increasing input overall. Mainly, I hope to refute political egalitarianism , the view that justice or legitimacy requires substantive political equality, specifically equal availability of power or influence over collective choices that have legal force. I hope to show that political egalitarianism exaggerates individual rights in the conduct of political procedures, and neglects the substantive justice of the decisions made through those procedures. Some unequal distributions of influence may better promote just decisions, and without reliance on any invidious comparisons such as the relative wisdom of the wealthy or the educated.

Deliberative democracy · Democracy · Democratic legitimacy · Economic Justice · Economics · Egalitarianism · Epistemology · Inequality · Law and economics · Legitimacy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Power (physics) · Quality (philosophy) · Sociology · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Judicial and Constitutional Studies · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics