The problem of the legitimate demos: a fragmentary exposition of an open debate
Keywords:
Democracy, Migration, Secession, Suffrage, Borders
Abstract
During the last decades there has been a growing controversy within political philosophy about the legitimate limits of the demos. In this paper, I am going to explain briefly some of the solutions offered so far and assess how they work in three problems that involve the democratic boundary problem. My goal is to show that each problem may be solved best using a specific solution. By doing that, my aim is to show that it is unlikely that the controversy will be solved in the short term.
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Christiano, Thomas. (2006). «A Democratic Theory of Territory and Some Puzzles about Global Democracy». Journal of Social philosophy 37 (1): pp. 81-107.
Goodin, Robert E. (2007). «Enfranchising All Affected Interests, and Its Alternatives». Philosophy & Public Affairs 35 (1): pp. 40-68.
Goodin, Robert E. (2016) «Enfranchising All Subjected, Worldwide». International Theory 8 (3): pp. 365-389.
Honohan, Iseult (2014). «Domination and Migration: an Alternative Approach to the Legitimacy of Migration Controls». Critical Review of International social and political philosophy 17 (1): pp. 31-48.
Owen, David (2012). «Constituting the Polity, Constituting the Demos: on the Place of the All Affected Interests Principle in Democratic Theory and in Resolving the Democratic Boundary Problem». Ethics & Global Politics 5 (3): pp. 129-152. https://doi.org/10.3402/egp.v5i3.18617
Miller, David (2009). «Democracy's Domain». Philosophy & Public affairs 37 (3): pp. 201-228. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1088-4963.2009.01158.x
Song, Sarah (2009). «Democracy and Noncitizen Voting Rights». Citizenship Studies 13 (6): pp. 607-620. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621020903309607
Song, Sarah (2012). «The Boundary Problem in Democratic Theory: Why the Demos Should Be Bounded by the State». International Theory 4 (1): pp. 39-68. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1752971911000248
Stilz, Anna (2015). «Decolonization and self-determination». Social Philosophy and Policy 32 (1): pp. 1-24. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0265052515000059
Valentini, Laura (2014). «No Global Demos, no Global Democracy? A Systematization and Critique». Perspectives on Politics 12 (4): pp. 789-807. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537592714002138
Verschoor, Marco. (2015) «The Quest for the Legitimacy of the People: A Contractarian Approach». Politics, Philosophy & Economics 14 (4): pp. 391-428. https://doi.org/10.1177/1470594X14564506
Whelan, Frederick G. (1984) «Prologue: Democratic theory and the boundary problem». Nomos 25: pp. 13-47.
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2021-03-30
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Hers Martínez, A.M. 2021. The problem of the legitimate demos: a fragmentary exposition of an open debate. Disputatio. 10, 16 (Mar. 2021), 273-279. DOI:https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4718958.
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