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3Democratic Equality Requires Randomly Selecting LegislatorsPublic Affairs Quarterly 38 (2): 132-152. 2024.In this paper, I argue that on an equality-based theory of democracy's value, randomly selecting legislators is more democratic than electing them. In sections 1 and 2, I describe how a legislature composed of randomly selected legislators might operate and what an equality-based theory of democracy's value consists in. In section 3, I evaluate arguments made in support of election-based democracy by democratic theorists and demonstrate why these arguments fail on their own terms. In section 4, …Read more
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24Democracy without Shortcuts: A Participatory Conception of Deliberative Democracy, written by Christina LafontJournal of Moral Philosophy 20 (5-6): 565-568. 2023.
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19Overcoming Schumpeter’s Dichotomy: Democracy and the Public InterestInternational Philosophical Quarterly 62 (3): 367-380. 2022.For a given decision, when an undemocratic procedure would result in a good outcome, and a democratic procedure would result in a bad outcome, which decision procedure ought we to use? Epistemic democrats, such as Joseph Schumpeter, argue that all else being equal, we should prefer the procedure with the good outcome. Schumpeter’s argument for this position is that we must reject the view that only democratic procedures matter when evaluating government institutions (pure proceduralism), and the…Read more
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University of Toronto, St. George CampusGraduate Department of Philosophy
Law (JD/PHD student)Doctoral student
APA Eastern Division