Abstract Democracy and equality are different concepts. There two fundamentally ways of relating them. The first way defines democracy in terms substantive political equality: the purest form is a regime which each citizen (at any given level aptitude motivation) has equal influence over decisions, regardless citizen’s wealth other resources. second renders as device for assuring (or justice) b...

idealized deliberative democracy. It will involve agonistic contestation between dominant and subordinate groups (125); and genuine democratic solidarity will be achieved only insofar as contestation over public memory in debates over minority group rights reveals ‘‘the existence of a state organized on the basis of both cultural difference and racial hierarchy’’ (171–72). Hooker offers provoca...

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the theory of efficient breach states that it is socially useful to breach a contract whenever the breach would leave no party worse off, while leaving at least one party better off. in other words, economic analyses of breach are mainly concerned with situations in which breach is pareto-superior, rather than just overall profit-maximizing. in contrast with moral theories that hold that breach...

Abstract Today’s election campaigns are heavily data-driven. Despite the numerous skeptical voices questioning compatibility of specific campaigning practices with fundamental principles liberal democracies, there has to date been little comprehensive work in this area from perspective normative democratic theory. Our article addresses gap by drawing on recent research theory political parties ...

An application of the social theory of Axel Honneth to global justice, arguing that development goals must include provision for the intersubjective recognition required for identity formation. In the disciplines of Political Philosophy and International Relations cosmopolitanism is often defined as the view that all people, no matter their national, ethnic or religious backgrounds and no matte...

In Gibb’s theory of moral development Piagetian ideas concerning egocentrism play an important role. Based on these ideas Gibbs offers a detailed analysis of transitions in moral development. However, Gibbs still fails to utilize the full potential offered by Piaget’s equilibration theory, because he does not generalize the idea of overcoming egocentrism, as an important mechanism, to all stage...