Just Elections by Dennis F Thompson
The 2000 election showed that the mechanies of voting, such as ballot design, can make a critical difference in the accuracy and fairness of our elections. But as Dennis F. Thompson persuasively shows, more fundamental issues must be addressed to ensure that our electoral system is fair. Just Elections argues that three central democratic principles - equal respect, free choice, and popular sovereignty - underlie our electoral institutions and should inform any assessment of the justice of elections. To create a fair electoral system, we must deliberate together about these principles and take greater control of the procedures that govern our elections.
"With Just Elections, Dennis Thompson sets out to do something timely, needed, and not yet tackled in similar fashionUsing the disputed 2000 presidential election as a catalyst for exploring a broad array of other contested structural issues currently on the political and constitutional agenda, Thompson integrates democratic theory with the nitty-gritty detail of institutional practices and policy issues in a way that not only extols the virtues of situating theory in concrete contexts but actually pulls off the difficult task of doing that in a productive way. Just Elections is a genuine achievement in the application of political theory to specific problems in the legal structuring of democratic practices." - Richard Pildes, New York University School of Law
Dennis F. Thompson is the Alfred North Whitehead Professor of Political Philosophy and director of the Center for Ethics and the Professions at Harvard University. He is the author of Political Ethics and Public Office, Ethics in Congress and coauthor of Democracy and Disagreement.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780226797632 |
| ISBN 10 | 0226797635 |
| Title | Just Elections |
| Author | Dennis F Thompson |
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| Publisher | The University of Chicago Press |
| Year published | 2002-11-15 |
| Number of pages | 269 |
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