Being a Good Samaritan Requires You to Vote

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6344199
AutoresJulia Maskivker (Rollins College, autor correspondente)
Ano2018
Volume66
Fascículo2
Páginas409-424
Data de publicação2018-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoPolitical Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0032-3217 • E-ISSN: 1467-9248
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0032321717723513
OpenAlexW2759398305
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas9
Referências citadas12

Do citizens have a moral duty to vote, or is the franchise just a right they are free to exercise or to abstain from, at will? The prevalent position in voting ethics is that citizens should be free to choose whether or not to exercise their right to vote. This article situates itself in opposition to the prevalent account and develops an argument supporting (1) a moral duty to vote and (2) a moral duty to vote well. I argue that a duty of Samaritan justice can require us to vote with care for the sake of the well-being of society. Samaritan duties of aid bind us when an intervention would not be unduly costly—not when it would be costless. I argue that voting with care is a cost that society can reasonably expect citizens to assume given what elections have the potential to achieve: minimally just governments

Argument (complex analysis · Contingent vote · Duty · Economic Justice · Economics · Group voting ticket · Law and economics · Opposition (politics · Political science · Spoilt vote · Voting · Law · Medicine · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Political Theology and Sovereignty · War, Ethics, and Justification