The ethics of asymmetric politics
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چکیده
Polarization often happens asymmetrically. One political actor radicalizes, and the results reverberate through system. This is how deep divisions in contemporary American politics arose: Republican Party radicalized. officeholders began to use extreme legislative tactics. voters became animated by contempt for their rivals defense of own social superiority. The party as a whole launched wide-ranging campaign voter suppression its members endorsed violence face electoral defeat. paper about such asymmetric polarization affects everyone else’s obligations. My core claim that two kinds relationship – civic friendship non-subordination underpin critical democratic norms. misbehavior has severed cross-partisan friendships. Their authoritarianism forfeits non-subordination. former means non-Republicans need not justify policy on public grounds. latter undercuts Republicans’ enjoy minority vetoes when out power it gives reason disobey laws Republicans make they are power. More generally, one contravenes proper norms politics, opposition bound those
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عنوان ژورنال: Politics, Philosophy & Economics
سال: 2022
ISSN: ['1470-594X', '1741-3060']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/1470594x221133445