05933nam 2201477 a 450 991082127200332120230124183706.01-280-49412-397866135893541-4008-4238-710.1515/9781400842384(CKB)2550000000102380(EBL)902771(OCoLC)793207530(SSID)ssj0000646244(PQKBManifestationID)11442327(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000646244(PQKBWorkID)10685561(PQKB)10700357(MiAaPQ)EBC902771(StDuBDS)EDZ0000406919(MdBmJHUP)muse37194(DE-B1597)447202(OCoLC)979593904(DE-B1597)9781400842384(Au-PeEL)EBL902771(CaPaEBR)ebr10556461(CaONFJC)MIL358935(EXLCZ)99255000000010238020111220d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrIn our name the ethics of democracy /Eric BeerbohmCourse BookPrinceton, N.J. Princeton University Press20121 online resource (367 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-691-16815-6 0-691-15461-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.Preface -- Introduction -- How to value democracy -- Paper stones, the ethics of participation -- Philosophers-citizens -- Superdeliberators -- What is it like to be a citizen? -- Democracy's ethics of belief -- The division of democratic labor -- Representing principles -- Democratic complicity -- Not in my name, macrodemocratic design.When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts? What if the government commits a moral crime? The protestor's slogan--"Not in our name!"--testifies to the need to separate ourselves from the wrongs of our leaders. Yet the idea that individual citizens might bear a special responsibility for political wrongdoing is deeply puzzling for ordinary morality and leading theories of democracy. In Our Name explains how citizens may be morally exposed to the failures of their representatives and state institutions, and how complicity is the professional hazard of democratic citizenship. Confronting the ethical challenges that citizens are faced with in a self-governing democracy, Eric Beerbohm proposes institutional remedies for dealing with them. Beerbohm questions prevailing theories of democracy for failing to account for our dual position as both citizens and subjects. Showing that the obligation to participate in the democratic process is even greater when we risk serving as accomplices to wrongdoing, Beerbohm argues for a distinctive division of labor between citizens and their representatives that charges lawmakers with the responsibility of incorporating their constituents' moral principles into their reasoning about policy. Grappling with the practical issues of democratic decision making, In Our Name engages with political science, law, and psychology to envision mechanisms for citizens seeking to avoid democratic complicity.DemocracyMoral and ethical aspectsJohn Rawls.Justice as Fairness.agency.associative accounts.authority.belief.citizens.citizenship.coauthors.cognitive biases.cognitive burden.cognitive partisanship.complicity.cosubjects.decision making.delegation.deliberation.deliberative democracy.democracy.democratic institutions.democratic labor.democratic state.democratic theory.distributive justice.elections.epistemic virtues.ethics.government.heuristics.injustice.judicial mechanisms.judicial review.justice.lawmaking.macrodemocratic theory.marginality.microdemocratic theory.moral obligations.moral value.morality.nonideal democratic theory.participation.participatory accounts.patriotism.peer principle.philosopher-citizens.plebiscitary mechanisms.political science.political wrongdoing.politics.popular constitutionalism.practical authority.pride.principled representation.principles theory.principles.public speech.reasoning.redundancy.regret.representation.representatives.responsibility.shared liability.social order.socioeconomic inequalities.superdeliberation.superdeliberators.triage principle.usability principle.DemocracyMoral and ethical aspects.172Beerbohm Eric Anthony1975-1705235MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821272003321In our name4091809UNINA