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Estlund’s flight from fairness

Estlund’s flight from fairness
Estlund’s flight from fairness
In Democratic Authority, Estlund claims not only that procedural fairness is insufficient to justify a democratic procedure but that it is not even necessary. This article reconstructs his argument, but argues that he is wrong to reject the importance of fairness altogether. While our reason for preferring democratic procedures to coin?tossing for making decisions may indeed be because of the epistemic properties of the former, it is also important—at least in conditions of pluralism, where there is reasonable disagreement over substantive questions of justice and the common good—that the democratic procedures be fair to all participants.
0034-4893
5-17
Saunders, Ben
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Saunders, Ben
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Saunders, Ben (2010) Estlund’s flight from fairness. Representation, 46 (1), 5-17. (doi:10.1080/00344890903570702).

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In Democratic Authority, Estlund claims not only that procedural fairness is insufficient to justify a democratic procedure but that it is not even necessary. This article reconstructs his argument, but argues that he is wrong to reject the importance of fairness altogether. While our reason for preferring democratic procedures to coin?tossing for making decisions may indeed be because of the epistemic properties of the former, it is also important—at least in conditions of pluralism, where there is reasonable disagreement over substantive questions of justice and the common good—that the democratic procedures be fair to all participants.

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Published date: 16 March 2010
Organisations: Faculty of Social, Human and Mathematical Sciences

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Local EPrints ID: 370354
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/370354
ISSN: 0034-4893
PURE UUID: 7f0704cc-1482-4c82-9a5e-5cc4fffbf68f
ORCID for Ben Saunders: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-5147-6397

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Date deposited: 22 Oct 2014 11:27
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 03:50

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