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Second‐personal authority and the practice of democracy1

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ID6249703
AuthorsEmanuela Ceva (0000-0002-4422-7667, Department of Political Science and International Relations University of Geneva Geneva Switzerland, corresponding author), Valeria Ottonelli (0000-0001-6754-5986, Department of Classics, Philosophy, and History University of Genoa Genoa Italy)
Year2022
Volume29
Issue4
Pages460-474
Publication date2022-12-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueConstellations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1351-0487 • E-ISSN: 1467-8675
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1467-8675.12575
OpenAlexW3173344722
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited45

What makes democracy a particular mode of social and political organization? We argue that the particularity of democracy consists in the logic that characterizes the form of authority this practice constitutes between its participants. This is a logic of mutuality and second-personality, which can be best understood by looking at the relations between democratic decision-makers as democratic voting primitively illustrates

Deliberation · Democracy · Epistemology · Law and economics · Normative · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Value (mathematics · Critical Theory and Philosophy · Law · Mathematics · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Theology and Sovereignty

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