In our name [[electronic resource] ] : the ethics of democracy / / Eric Beerbohm

• Autore: Beerbohm Eric Anthony <1975->
• Pubblicazione: Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, 2012
• Edizione: Course Book
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (367 p.)
• Disciplina: 172
• Soggetto topico: Democracy - Moral and ethical aspects
• Soggetto non controllato: John 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
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: In our name
• ISBN: 1-280-49412-3; 9786613589354; 1-4008-4238-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910779275403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II