Unequal political participation worldwideAina Gallego.
Gallego, Aina, 1981-
Unequal political participation worldwideAina Gallego. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm.)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Unequal participation around the world -- Heterogeneous consequences of contexts on participation -- The difficulty of the voting procedure -- Government fragmentation and media systems -- Trade unions in the highly educated membership era -- Income inequality and the participation of lower-status groups -- Consequences of unequal participation for representation.
"Political equality is an essential political ideal and it is the cornerstone of moral justifications of democracy. Most people would agree with the proposition that the interests and preferences of each citizen must be given equal consideration in the political process because no person is intrinsically superior to others in ways that can justify preferential consideration. A second premise is that each person is the best judge of her own interests and preferences and is capable of expressing them, hence ruling out an enlightened ruler as the best interpreter of citizens' preferences. Taken together, these two claims provide a powerful case for democracy. Only in electoral democracies can all citizens, in principle, have an equal influence in the political process(Dahl 1971, 2008; Przeworski 2010)"--
9781316190692 9781316203651 9781139151726
GBB4C4365 bnb GBB4C2798 bnb
016933236 Uk 016931669 Uk
Political participation--Cross-cultural studies.
Democracy--Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic Books.
JF799 / .U547 2014
Unequal political participation worldwideAina Gallego. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, (c)2014. - 1 online resource (pages cm.)
Includes bibliographies and index.
Unequal participation around the world -- Heterogeneous consequences of contexts on participation -- The difficulty of the voting procedure -- Government fragmentation and media systems -- Trade unions in the highly educated membership era -- Income inequality and the participation of lower-status groups -- Consequences of unequal participation for representation.
"Political equality is an essential political ideal and it is the cornerstone of moral justifications of democracy. Most people would agree with the proposition that the interests and preferences of each citizen must be given equal consideration in the political process because no person is intrinsically superior to others in ways that can justify preferential consideration. A second premise is that each person is the best judge of her own interests and preferences and is capable of expressing them, hence ruling out an enlightened ruler as the best interpreter of citizens' preferences. Taken together, these two claims provide a powerful case for democracy. Only in electoral democracies can all citizens, in principle, have an equal influence in the political process(Dahl 1971, 2008; Przeworski 2010)"--
9781316190692 9781316203651 9781139151726
GBB4C4365 bnb GBB4C2798 bnb
016933236 Uk 016931669 Uk
Political participation--Cross-cultural studies.
Democracy--Cross-cultural studies.
Electronic Books.
JF799 / .U547 2014