Pub Date : 2023-03-02DOI: 10.1080/13698230.2023.2183601
Paul Weithman
ABSTRACT Kevin Vallier claims to have attained a ‘great goal’ of the social contract tradition: ‘to show that there are regimes supported by the reason of the public and that have authority for citizens in those regimes’. I contend that his argument depends upon changing the meanings of ‘reason of the public’ and ‘authority’, and conclude that he has not attained the goal he claims.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-02DOI: 10.1080/13698230.2023.2185382
Spencer McKay
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1080/13698230.2023.2183598
Diana C. Mutz
ABSTRACT Vallier’s analysis of the empirical literature on social trust and political polarization is an admirable attempt to integrate empirical findings into political philosophy. Nonetheless, it may not go far enough toward explicating what is and what is not the problem. The popular understanding of increasing political polarization does not distinguish adequately between various meanings of this claim, distinctions that might have helped to advance Vallier’s theory. In this brief essay I outline two areas that could be usefully incorporated into his arguments.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-26DOI: 10.1080/13698230.2023.2183603
Kevin Vallier
ABSTRACT In this piece, Vallier responds to critiques of his 2020 book, Trust in a Polarized Age, offered by Mutz, Méon, Kukathas, and Weithman. He first restates the main argument of the book. Mutz and Méon offer criticisms to some of his empirical claims about polarization and trust; in response, Vallier concedes while stressing that one aim of the book is to develop an approach to defending liberal order that updates as these empirical literatures expand and improve. Much of the work Mutz and Méon discuss can be integrated into the book’s broader project. Kukathas and Weithman criticize Vallier’s normative claims, which Vallier defends.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-26DOI: 10.1080/13698230.2023.2183597
Adam Gjesdal
ABSTRACT This contribution introduces key concepts and themes from Kevin Vallier’s Trust in a Polarized Age that play a role in the discussion by the four commentators Diana Mutz, Pierre-Guillaume Méon, Chandran Kukathas, and Paul Weithman. The discussion explains how Vallier uses the rich empirical literature on social trust to illuminate normative notions of legitimacy and public justification in liberal orders.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-24DOI: 10.1080/13698230.2023.2183599
Pierre‐Guillaume Méon
ABSTRACT This comment discusses the empirical trust literature that Vallier leverages in his book. It underlines that, to find policy instruments to restore trust, one must be confident that the estimated relations of trust with its determinants are causal and investigate the dynamics of those relations. The note also emphasizes the role of heterogeneity in those relations and in trust itself.
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Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1080/13698230.2022.2159666
Claudia Landwehr
{"title":"Institutional design beyond democratic innovations","authors":"Claudia Landwehr","doi":"10.1080/13698230.2022.2159666","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2022.2159666","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46451,"journal":{"name":"Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46714678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-27DOI: 10.1080/13698230.2022.2159665
Steffen Ganghof
{"title":"Justifying types of representative democracy: a response","authors":"Steffen Ganghof","doi":"10.1080/13698230.2022.2159665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2022.2159665","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46451,"journal":{"name":"Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42934490","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-21DOI: 10.1080/13698230.2023.2168439
Tadhg Ó Laoghaire
{"title":"Inward internationalisation","authors":"Tadhg Ó Laoghaire","doi":"10.1080/13698230.2023.2168439","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2023.2168439","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46451,"journal":{"name":"Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48358661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-18DOI: 10.1080/13698230.2022.2159663
S. Birch
{"title":"Semi-parliamentarism and the challenges of institutional design","authors":"S. Birch","doi":"10.1080/13698230.2022.2159663","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/13698230.2022.2159663","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46451,"journal":{"name":"Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy","volume":"35 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.8,"publicationDate":"2023-01-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59829874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}