dc.contributor.author | Malcolm, Finlay | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2020-06-18T00:06:26Z | |
dc.date.available | 2020-06-18T00:06:26Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2021-04-01 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Malcolm , F 2021 , ' Democratic Legitimacy and the Competence Obligation ' , Moral Philosophy and Politics , vol. 8 , no. 1 , pp. 109-130 . https://doi.org/10.1515/mopp-2019-0036 | |
dc.identifier.issn | 2194-5624 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/2299/22866 | |
dc.description | © 2020 Walter de Gruyter GmbH, Berlin/Boston: https://doi.org/10.1515/mopp-2019-0036. | |
dc.description.abstract | What obligations are there on voters? This paper argues that voters should make their electoral decision competently, and does so by developing on a recent proposal for democratic legitimacy. It then explores three problems arising from this 'competency obligation'. First, how should voters be competent? I propose three conditions required for voter competence. Second, how competent should voters be? I argue that that the competency required tracks the significance of the consequences of the vote. Third, if the electorate are unlikely to deliver a competent decision, should suffrage be restricted to the competent alone? I defend unrestricted suffrage on the grounds that restricting suffrage cannot guarantee a competently made electoral decision. Instead, obligations on voters should be minimised by political parties satisfying their obligations to be politically sound; if they are sound, then the obligation to be competent can be easily satisfied by voters. | en |
dc.format.extent | 21 | |
dc.format.extent | 224765 | |
dc.language.iso | eng | |
dc.relation.ispartof | Moral Philosophy and Politics | |
dc.subject | competence | |
dc.subject | democratic legitimacy | |
dc.subject | elections | |
dc.subject | epistocracy | |
dc.subject | suffrage | |
dc.subject | voter obligations | |
dc.subject | Philosophy | |
dc.subject | Sociology and Political Science | |
dc.subject | History and Philosophy of Science | |
dc.title | Democratic Legitimacy and the Competence Obligation | en |
dc.contributor.institution | Philosophy | |
dc.contributor.institution | School of Humanities | |
dc.description.status | Peer reviewed | |
dc.date.embargoedUntil | 2021-03-11 | |
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rioxxterms.versionofrecord | 10.1515/mopp-2019-0036 | |
rioxxterms.type | Journal Article/Review | |
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