The Right to a Competent Electorate
The Right to a Competent Electorate
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5350792 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jason Brennan (0000-0001-5636-782X, Brown University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 61 |
| Issue | 245 |
| Pages | 700-724 |
| Publication date | 2011-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Philosophical Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0031-8094 • E-ISSN: 1467-9213 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1467-9213.2011.699.x |
| OpenAlex | W2139865235 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 61 |
The practice of unrestricted universal suffrage is unjust. Citizens have a right that any political power held over them should be exercised by competent people in a competent way. Universal suffrage violates this right. To satisfy this right, universal suffrage in most cases must be replaced by a moderate epistocracy, in which suffrage is restricted to citizens of sufficient political competence. Epistocracy itself seems to fall foul of the qualified acceptability requirement, that political power must be distributed in ways against which there are no qualified objections. However, it is less intrinsically unjust than democracy with universal suffrage, and probably produces more just outcomes. Thus epistocracy is more just than democracy, even if not perfectly just
Competence (human resources) · Democracy · Law and economics · Political science · Politics · Power (physics) · Sociology · Suffrage · Universal suffrage · American Constitutional Law and Politics · Law · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Social Psychology
Hand-Waving the New Democratic Skeptics
El Derecho a Sufragio De Los Menores De Edad
On the Compatibility of Epistocracy and Public Reason
The Case for Citizen Duty
Citizenship and Contemporary Direct Democracy
Deliberation and Democracy
Disenfranchisement and the Capacity/Equality Puzzle
Vote Markets
Democracy or Epistocracy? Age as a Criterion of Voter Eligibility
High Stakes Instrumentalism
Epistocracy Within Public Reason
Democracy on Display
Knowing (with) other citizens
How East Meets West
A normative set of criteria to increase political competence through voting advice applications
Electoral Competence, Epistocracy, and Standpoint Epistemologies. A Reply to Brennan
An Epistemic Problem for Epistocracy
The Minors Strike
The Dumbed‐Down Discourse Dilemma
There is no right to a competent electorate
In defense of the jury argument
On Two Anti-Democratic Uses of Sortition
Qualified for Power? On Epistemology in Voting
Does epistemic proceduralism justify the disenfranchisement of children
Children, Voting, and the Meaning of Universal Suffrage
What militant democrats and technocrats share
An epistemic case for confucian democracy
Rethinking the epistemic case against epistocracy
The challenge of regulating digital privacy
Against a minimum voting age
Is child disenfranchisement justified
Political interest, recognition and acceptance of voting responsibility, and electoral participation
The curious case of the jury-shaped hole
Democratic Legitimacy and the Competence Objection
Response to Umbers
Democracy and the Right to Exclusion
Epistocracy and Public Interests
Does the Demographic Objection to Epistocracy Succeed
A Further Defence of the Right Not to Vote
Standpoints, Knowledge, and Power
Meritocratic Democracy
A minimal standard of democratic competence
Limiting the right to moderate
Why Paternalists Must Endorse Epistocracy
Is Epistocracy Irrational
Second‐Order Political Equality and the Limits of Civic Accountability
Political meritocracy and the troubles of Western democracies
Should The More Highly Educated Get More Votes? Education, Voting and Representation
Making Nonvoters Pay
Equality-Based Comparison
Depoliticising the Polls
The case for epistocratic republicanism
Differential Voting Weights and Relational Egalitarianism
Capacity-testing as a means of increasing political inclusion
Is Democracy an Option for the Realist
How Smart is Democracy? You Can't Answer that Question a Priori
Political Meritocracy and Democracy
Enfranchising the disenfranchised
Plural Voting for the Twenty-First Century
Representative Democracy as Defensible Epistocracy
Contributive Justice
| Unique citing works | 61 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 4,36 |
| Citation span | 2012 - 2026 (15) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 57 |