Eric Beerbohm
Biographic Data
| ID | 1208718 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Eric Beerbohm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Eric |
| FAMILY NAME | Beerbohm |
| SIGNATURE | BEERBOHM E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 36 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Gaslighting Citizens
Gaslighting brings its victims to doubt the sources of their evidence. This article holds that political gaslighting, by leading citizens to hold beliefs disconnected from the available evidence, poses a distinctive threat to democratic politics. But holding “audacious beliefs”—beliefs that are ahead of the evidence—can serve as a core ingredient for democratic movements. This creates a dilemma for citizens, who must choose between two kinds of e…
Jane Mansbridge, Beyond Adversary Democracy
Rules of order can perform two kinds of work in a democratic setting: they can be regulative, taking conflicts among groups for granted, or they can be constitutive, making possible the formation of new ways of relating to each other as equals. Jane Mansbridge’s now classic Beyond Adversary Democracy is a vivid possibility proof for the latter kind of democratic theory. Its mix of participant observation and case studies showed how the rules of o…
The democratic limits of political experiments
Since field experiments in democratic politics influence citizens and the relationships among citizens, they are freighted with normative significance. Yet the distinctively democratic concerns that bear upon such field experiments have not yet been systematically examined. In this paper, we taxonomize such democratic concerns. Our goal is not to justify any of them, but rather to reveal their basic structure, so that they can be scrutinized at f…
The Common Good
The Ethics of Electioneering
Is Democratic Leadership Possible
Leadership can baffle our ideal of democracy. If representatives track our preferences, actual or ideal, what room is left for them to pushback against a constituency? This has led some political theorists to conclude that the concept of democratic leadership is paradoxical. I challenge this view by constructing a theory that takes shared commitment as its principal ingredient. The Commitment Theory brings out what is morally distinctive about le…
The Conceptual Priority of Injustice
In Our Name
When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts? What if the government commits a moral crime? The protestor's slogan—“Not in our name!”—testifies to the need to separate ourselves from the wrongs of our leaders. Yet the idea that individual citizens might bear a special responsibility for political wrongdoing is deeply puzzling for ordinary morality and leading theories of democracy. This book e…
In Our Name
Preface ix Introduction 1 Chapter 1- How to Value Democracy 25 Chapter 2- Paper Stones: The Ethics of Participation 51 Chapter 3- Philosophers-Citizens 82 Chapter 4- Superdeliberators 105 Chapter 5- What Is It Like to Be a Citizen? 125 Chapter 6- Democracy's Ethics of Belief 142 Chapter 7- The Division of Democratic Labor 166 Chapter 8- Representing Principles 193 Chapter 9- Democratic Complicity 226 Chapter 10- Not in My Name: Macrodemocratic De…
Democracy as an Inflationary Concept
Is Democratic Leadership Possible
Leadership can baffle our ideal of democracy. If representatives track our preferences, actual or ideal, what room is left for them to pushback against a constituency? This has led some political theorists to conclude that the concept of democratic leadership is paradoxical. I challenge this view by constructing a theory that takes shared commitment as its principal ingredient. The Commitment Theory brings out what is morally distinctive about le…
Gaslighting Citizens
Gaslighting brings its victims to doubt the sources of their evidence. This article holds that political gaslighting, by leading citizens to hold beliefs disconnected from the available evidence, poses a distinctive threat to democratic politics. But holding “audacious beliefs”—beliefs that are ahead of the evidence—can serve as a core ingredient for democratic movements. This creates a dilemma for citizens, who must choose between two kinds of e…
The Ethics of Electioneering
The Common Good
Democracy as an Inflationary Concept
The democratic limits of political experiments
Since field experiments in democratic politics influence citizens and the relationships among citizens, they are freighted with normative significance. Yet the distinctively democratic concerns that bear upon such field experiments have not yet been systematically examined. In this paper, we taxonomize such democratic concerns. Our goal is not to justify any of them, but rather to reveal their basic structure, so that they can be scrutinized at f…
Democracy as an Inflationary Concept
In Our Name
When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts? What if the government commits a moral crime? The protestor's slogan—“Not in our name!”—testifies to the need to separate ourselves from the wrongs of our leaders. Yet the idea that individual citizens might bear a special responsibility for political wrongdoing is deeply puzzling for ordinary morality and leading theories of democracy. This book e…
In Our Name
Preface ix Introduction 1 Chapter 1- How to Value Democracy 25 Chapter 2- Paper Stones: The Ethics of Participation 51 Chapter 3- Philosophers-Citizens 82 Chapter 4- Superdeliberators 105 Chapter 5- What Is It Like to Be a Citizen? 125 Chapter 6- Democracy's Ethics of Belief 142 Chapter 7- The Division of Democratic Labor 166 Chapter 8- Representing Principles 193 Chapter 9- Democratic Complicity 226 Chapter 10- Not in My Name: Macrodemocratic De…
The Conceptual Priority of Injustice
The Ethics of Electioneering
Is Democratic Leadership Possible
Leadership can baffle our ideal of democracy. If representatives track our preferences, actual or ideal, what room is left for them to pushback against a constituency? This has led some political theorists to conclude that the concept of democratic leadership is paradoxical. I challenge this view by constructing a theory that takes shared commitment as its principal ingredient. The Commitment Theory brings out what is morally distinctive about le…
The Common Good
The democratic limits of political experiments
Since field experiments in democratic politics influence citizens and the relationships among citizens, they are freighted with normative significance. Yet the distinctively democratic concerns that bear upon such field experiments have not yet been systematically examined. In this paper, we taxonomize such democratic concerns. Our goal is not to justify any of them, but rather to reveal their basic structure, so that they can be scrutinized at f…
Jane Mansbridge, Beyond Adversary Democracy
Rules of order can perform two kinds of work in a democratic setting: they can be regulative, taking conflicts among groups for granted, or they can be constitutive, making possible the formation of new ways of relating to each other as equals. Jane Mansbridge’s now classic Beyond Adversary Democracy is a vivid possibility proof for the latter kind of democratic theory. Its mix of participant observation and case studies showed how the rules of o…
Gaslighting Citizens
Gaslighting brings its victims to doubt the sources of their evidence. This article holds that political gaslighting, by leading citizens to hold beliefs disconnected from the available evidence, poses a distinctive threat to democratic politics. But holding “audacious beliefs”—beliefs that are ahead of the evidence—can serve as a core ingredient for democratic movements. This creates a dilemma for citizens, who must choose between two kinds of e…
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