Avital Manor
Biographic Data
| ID | 293351 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Avital Manor |
| GIVEN NAMES | Avital |
| FAMILY NAME | Manor |
| SIGNATURE | MANOR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pittsburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0666-6754 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Ecological rationality and democratic ignorance: Reconciling rational and radical accounts of voter behavior
Second‐Order Political Equality and the Limits of Civic Accountability: A Reply to Giavazzi
This paper critically examines Michele Giavazzi's recent argument for epistemic constraints on voting (ECV), which attempts to reconcile such constraints with democratic equality through a noninstrumental justification based on civic accountability. I argue that Giavazzi's account fails on two grounds: first, it violates what I call second‐order political equality by privileging a particular conception of voting over reasonable alternatives in pl…
Rational irrationality: A conceptual defense
In his recent critique of rational irrationality, Spencer Paulson argues that the concept fails as an explanation of voter behavior because it cannot account for the inherent nature of policy beliefs as commitments to action and is therefore reflectively unstable. This paper defends rational irrationality against Paulson's critique by examining two key distinctions between voting behavior and Paulson's toxin puzzle analogy: the role of feasibilit…
Transformative Experimentation, Perspectival Diversity, and the Polycentric Liberal Order
In defense of voting method publicity
The ideal of publicity plays an important role in contemporary legal and political philosophy. Yet, to date, it has not been brought to bear on the question of voting method choice. This paper aims to fix this. I argue that voting method publicity is a well-motivated requirement which reveals tradeoffs inherent to democracy between procedural and epistemic equality. I further explore the implications of voting method publicity to the normative st…
Experiments in Living: Moral Polycentricity versus Epistemic Polycentricity
A number of liberal and libertarian philosophers make the moral case for laissez-faire polycentricity—a political order centered around voluntary association. Some of these philosophers further present epistemic arguments in favor of polycentric forms of organization. Initially, one might think that the epistemic arguments reinforce the moral ones, resulting in a philosophically robust case for laissez-faire polycentricity. This paper argues agai…
Cohabitation among secular Jews in Israel: How ethnicity, education, and employment characteristics are related to young adults' living arrangements
Economic and ideational theories offer various explanations for the roles of ethnicity, education, and employment characteristics in determining cohabitation behavior in various contexts
Cohabitation among secular Jews in Israel: How ethnicity, education, and employment characteristics are related to young adults' living arrangements
Economic and ideational theories offer various explanations for the roles of ethnicity, education, and employment characteristics in determining cohabitation behavior in various contexts
In defense of voting method publicity
The ideal of publicity plays an important role in contemporary legal and political philosophy. Yet, to date, it has not been brought to bear on the question of voting method choice. This paper aims to fix this. I argue that voting method publicity is a well-motivated requirement which reveals tradeoffs inherent to democracy between procedural and epistemic equality. I further explore the implications of voting method publicity to the normative st…
Cohabitation among secular Jews in Israel: How ethnicity, education, and employment characteristics are related to young adults' living arrangements
Economic and ideational theories offer various explanations for the roles of ethnicity, education, and employment characteristics in determining cohabitation behavior in various contexts
Experiments in Living: Moral Polycentricity versus Epistemic Polycentricity
A number of liberal and libertarian philosophers make the moral case for laissez-faire polycentricity—a political order centered around voluntary association. Some of these philosophers further present epistemic arguments in favor of polycentric forms of organization. Initially, one might think that the epistemic arguments reinforce the moral ones, resulting in a philosophically robust case for laissez-faire polycentricity. This paper argues agai…
Transformative Experimentation, Perspectival Diversity, and the Polycentric Liberal Order
In defense of voting method publicity
The ideal of publicity plays an important role in contemporary legal and political philosophy. Yet, to date, it has not been brought to bear on the question of voting method choice. This paper aims to fix this. I argue that voting method publicity is a well-motivated requirement which reveals tradeoffs inherent to democracy between procedural and epistemic equality. I further explore the implications of voting method publicity to the normative st…
Second‐Order Political Equality and the Limits of Civic Accountability: A Reply to Giavazzi
This paper critically examines Michele Giavazzi's recent argument for epistemic constraints on voting (ECV), which attempts to reconcile such constraints with democratic equality through a noninstrumental justification based on civic accountability. I argue that Giavazzi's account fails on two grounds: first, it violates what I call second‐order political equality by privileging a particular conception of voting over reasonable alternatives in pl…
Rational irrationality: A conceptual defense
In his recent critique of rational irrationality, Spencer Paulson argues that the concept fails as an explanation of voter behavior because it cannot account for the inherent nature of policy beliefs as commitments to action and is therefore reflectively unstable. This paper defends rational irrationality against Paulson's critique by examining two key distinctions between voting behavior and Paulson's toxin puzzle analogy: the role of feasibilit…
Ecological rationality and democratic ignorance: Reconciling rational and radical accounts of voter behavior
Sociology (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political Philosophy and Ethics (3 works) · Bounded rationality (2 works) · Democracy (2 works)