Democratic rights : the substance of self-government /
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Princeton :
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Table of Contents:
- The value theory of democracy
- Introduction
- Procedural democractic theories
- Procedure-independent theories: epistemic and democratic
- Conclusion
- Paradigmatic democratic rights and citizens as addressees of law
- Introduction
- Citizens as authors and addressees: co-originality and citizens' status
- Rule of law
- Freedom of expression and conscience
- Conclusion
- Democratic contractualism: a framework for justifiable coercion
- Introduction
- A lexicon of citizenship
- The principle of democracy's public reason
- The inclusion principle
- Conclusion
- Public justification and the right to privacy
- Introduction
- Situating democratic privacy: a critique of liberal and republican accounts
- Relevance and the boundaries of privacy
- Privacy, equality, and democratically justifiable coercion
- Conclusion
- The rights of the punished
- Introduction
- The need for justification to criminals qua citizens: the problem with punishment as war
- State punishment as an issue of political morality: punishing criminals qua persons versus criminals qua citizens
- Democratic rights against punishment
- Capital punishment
- Conclusion
- Private property and the right to welfare
- Introduction
- The right to private property and state coercion
- Democratic contractualism and the right to private property
- Democratic proposals for welfare rights
- Objections
- Conclusion
- Judicial review: balancing democratic rights and procedures
- Introduction
- The limits of a pure outcomes-based theory
- The failure of pure procedural theories
- Impure procedural and outcomes-based theories
- The flaws with formal democratic arguments and the need for examples in a theory of democracy
- The objection from benevolent dictatorship
- Conclusion : democratic rights and contemporary politics
- Bibliography
- Index