Does the Free Group Agency Account of Legitimacy Require Democracy?

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作者：

Bech-Pedersen, Palle ^{[2
]}

Haberkost, Finn ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Goethe Univ Frankfurt, Dept Social Sci, Max Horkheimer Str 2, D-60629 Frankfurt, Germany

[2] Univ Hamburg, Fac Econ & Social Sci, Dept Econ, Von Melle Pk 9, Room A419, D-20146 Hamburg, Germany

来源：

MORAL PHILOSOPHY AND POLITICS | 2024年 / 11卷 / 01期

关键词：

legitimacy; group agency; political equality; democracy;

D O I：

10.1515/mopp-2022-0044

中图分类号：

B82 [伦理学（道德学）];

学科分类号：

摘要：

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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