Domination and democratic legislation

IF 1.6 2区 哲学 Q2 ETHICS Politics Philosophy & Economics Pub Date : 2022-01-24 DOI:10.1177/1470594X211072272
Sean Ingham, Frank Lovett
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Republicans hold that people are unfree if they are dominated, that is, if others have an insufficiently constrained ability to frustrate their choices. Since legislation can frustrate individuals’ choices, republicans believe that the design of legislative institutions has consequences for individual freedom. Some have argued that if legislative institutions are democratic, then they need not be sources of domination at all. We argue this view is incorrect: the introduction of legislative authority, even if democratically organized, always creates a new site of domination. However, republicans can defend democratic procedures as the best means of minimizing the degree to which citizens are dominated, subject to the constraint of equalizing everyone’s freedom. We formulate and prove this claim within a simple model of legislative authority and domination.
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统治与民主立法
共和党人认为,如果人们被支配,也就是说,如果其他人没有足够的约束能力来挫败他们的选择,那么人们就是不自由的。由于立法会阻碍个人的选择,共和党人认为立法机构的设计会对个人自由产生影响。一些人认为,如果立法机构是民主的,那么它们根本不需要成为统治的来源。我们认为这种观点是不正确的:立法权威的引入,即使是民主组织的,也总是创造一个新的统治场所。然而,共和党人可以为民主程序辩护,认为民主程序是最大限度地减少公民受支配程度的最佳手段,并受到每个人自由平等的约束。我们在立法权威和统治的简单模型中阐述并证明了这一主张。
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期刊介绍: Politics, Philosophy & Economics aims to bring moral, economic and political theory to bear on the analysis, justification and criticism of political and economic institutions and public policies. The Editors are committed to publishing peer-reviewed papers of high quality using various methodologies from a wide variety of normative perspectives. They seek to provide a distinctive forum for discussions and debates among political scientists, philosophers, and economists on such matters as constitutional design, property rights, distributive justice, the welfare state, egalitarianism, the morals of the market, democratic socialism, population ethics, and the evolution of norms.
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