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



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Autore: Beerbohm Eric Anthony <1975-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: In our name [[electronic resource] ] : the ethics of democracy / / Eric Beerbohm Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-280-49412-3
9786613589354
1-4008-4238-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910779275403321
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