Graduate Thesis Or Dissertation
The Non-Solicitation Principle of Democratic Legitimacy Public Deposited
https://scholar.colorado.edu/concern/graduate_thesis_or_dissertations/cz30pt07z
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- There are many problems with contemporary forms of democratic government. Apathy, factions, and the problem of legitimizing authority in a democracy plagued by both are among the most important of the problems democracies face today, especially in the United States. I propose a principle of non-solicitation for government positions. This principle solves the aforementioned problems by (i) widening the sphere of possible political participation, (ii) abating the problem of factions, and (iii) legitimizing authority as the right to rule under deliberative democracy, consent, reasonable consensus, and equality theories of legitimization.
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- 2014
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- 2019-11-17
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