An Epistemic Case for Positive Voting Duties

IF 0.4 3区社会学 Q4 POLITICAL SCIENCE

Critical Review Pub Date : 2021-01-02 DOI:10.1080/08913811.2021.1932084

C.J.F. Klijnman

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Abstract

ABSTRACT In response to widespread voter ignorance, Jason Brennan argues for a voting ethics that can be summarized as one negative duty: do not vote badly. The implication that abstaining is always permissible entails no incentive for citizens to become competent voters or to vote once competent. Following the Condorcet Jury Theorem, this can lead to suboptimal outcomes, suggesting that voter turnout should concern instrumentalist epistemic accounts of democratic legitimacy. This could be addressed by adding two positive voting duties: to make an effort to become a competent voter; and, once competent, to vote.

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积极投票义务的认知案例

摘要针对普遍存在的选民无知，Jason Brennan提出了一种可以概括为一种消极义务的投票道德：不要投坏票。弃权始终是允许的，这意味着公民没有动力成为有能力的选民或一旦有能力就投票。根据Condorcet-Jury定理，这可能会导致次优结果，这表明选民投票率应该与民主合法性的工具主义认识论有关。这可以通过增加两项积极的投票职责来解决：努力成为一名合格的选民；一旦有资格，就可以投票。

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Critical Review POLITICAL SCIENCE-

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1.30

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12.50%

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期刊介绍： Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society is a political-science journal dedicated to advancing political theory with an epistemological bent. Recurrent questions discussed in our pages include: How can political actors know what they need to know to effect positive social change? What are the sources of political actors’ beliefs? Are these sources reliable? Critical Review is the only journal in which the ideational determinants of political behavior are investigated empirically as well as being assessed for their normative implications. Thus, while normative political theorists are the main contributors to Critical Review, we also publish scholarship on the realities of public opinion, the media, technocratic decision making, ideological reasoning, and other empirical phenomena.