Democratically Binding
The 'democracy unbound' project aspires to extend democracy in two dimensions: range and scope. The former would give a wider range of people the vote. The latter would give people a wider scope of things to vote on. In practice, no doubt there is room to do much more of both....
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The 'democracy unbound' project aspires to extend democracy in two dimensions: range and scope. The former would give a wider range of people the vote. The latter would give people a wider scope of things to vote on. In practice, no doubt there is room to do much more of both. But whereas it would be democratically justifiable in an ideal world for democracy to be completely unbounded as regards range, even in an ideal world democracy ought be subject to some limits internal to the logic of democracy itself as regards its scope.
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| spelling | doaj-art-ba858bac05894f7fba57ec38be8f26452025-08-20T02:27:54ZengOñati International Institute for the Sociology of LawOñati Socio-Legal Series2079-59712010-12-011521Democratically BindingRobert E. Goodin0Research School of Social Sciences Australian National University The 'democracy unbound' project aspires to extend democracy in two dimensions: range and scope. The former would give a wider range of people the vote. The latter would give people a wider scope of things to vote on. In practice, no doubt there is room to do much more of both. But whereas it would be democratically justifiable in an ideal world for democracy to be completely unbounded as regards range, even in an ideal world democracy ought be subject to some limits internal to the logic of democracy itself as regards its scope. DOWNLOAD THIS PAPER FROM SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1837428 https://opo.iisj.net/index.php/osls/article/view/22Bindingness of lawDemocratic franchiseAll affected interestsLimits to democracyDemocracy |
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