Does the Free Group Agency Account of Legitimacy Require Democracy?
Abstract: In this critical comment, we argue that nondemocratic, but decent regimes fail to constitute legitimate governance under Applbaum’s free group agency account. To make this case, we first introduce the three principles of liberty, equality and agency that Applbaum takes to flow directly from his free agency conception of legitimacy. Against this backdrop, we discuss Applbaum’s claim that a nondemocratic regime along the lines of a Rawlsian decent consultation hierarchy could meet the threshold of legitimacy. Contrary to this suggestion, we argue that nondemocratic, but decent regimes cannot claim legitimacy under Applbaum’s account because they are constitutively inegalitarian, thus failing to adequately grant citizens the equal normative power without which legitimacy is unattainable under the free group agency account.
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Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
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Online-Ressource
- Language
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Englisch
- Bibliographic citation
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Does the Free Group Agency Account of Legitimacy Require Democracy? ; volume:11 ; number:1 ; year:2024 ; pages:51-61 ; extent:11
Moral philosophy and politics ; 11, Heft 1 (2024), 51-61 (gesamt 11)
- Creator
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Bech-Pedersen, Palle
Haberkost, Finn
- DOI
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10.1515/mopp-2022-0044
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:101:1-2404161542473.311469826202
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Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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14.08.2025, 10:57 AM CEST
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- Bech-Pedersen, Palle
- Haberkost, Finn
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