Listening to Strangers, or
Three Arguments for Bounded Solidarity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6230199 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nathan Pippenger (0000-0003-3354-9609, United States Naval Academy, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 764-775 |
| Publication date | 2023-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Political Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0092-5853 • E-ISSN: 1540-5907 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/ajps.12671 |
| OpenAlex | W3204593343 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 4 |
| References cited | 45 |
Bounded solidarity has recently been criticized on the grounds that it valorizes homogeneity, arbitrarily prioritizes compatriots over outsiders, and is ultimately unnecessary to democracy. In response, defenders argue that solidarity is valuable because it supports the welfare state or a republican ideal of nondomination. This article argues that such defenses fail to demonstrate that bounded solidarity is not superfluous in the way that critics have claimed, leaving the ideal vulnerable to dismissal. Drawing on deliberative democratic theory, it shows that bounded solidarity among citizens is necessary in order to establish the epistemic preconditions of democratic self‐determination. Understood in epistemic terms, bounded solidarity—a disposition among citizens to gather, and assign weight to, the perspectives of other citizens—deserves support because it is inextricable from the valuable goal of democratic self‐rule
Bounded function · Democracy · Dismissal · Epistemology · Ideal (ethics · Law and economics · Political science · Sociology · Solidarity · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics
Solidarity Across Divides
The Imperative of Integration
A systemic approach to deliberative democracy
Rational deliberation among experts and citizens
Democracy
Democratic Reason
The Moral Value of Collective Self‐Determination and the Ethics of Secession
Liberal Loyalty
Sticking Together or Falling Apart?
Civil Passions
Is Patriotism an Associative Duty?
Reflective Democracy
The Constitution of Equality
Equality, Social Solidarity, and the Welfare State
A Moral Theory of Solidarity
Anti-Cosmopolitanism and the Motivational Preconditions for Social Justice
Listening for Democracy
Beyond Empathy and Inclusion
The Strains of Commitment
Immigrants
Community, Solidarity and Belonging
Solidarity in diverse societies
The boundary problem in democratic theory
How Can Deliberative Democracy Get a Grip
The Equal Society
Beyond Empathy
The Ideal of Uptake in Democratic Deliberation
Public deliberation in an era of communicative plenty
Democracy's Domain
Three Normative Models of Democracy
Cosmopolitan Patriotism as a Civic Ideal
Dilemmas and Connections
Is solidarity less important and less functional in egalitarian contexts
| Unique citing works | 4 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2024 - 2026 (3) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 4 |