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Politics by Principle, Not Interest - Towards Nondiscriminatory Democracy (Hardcover, New)
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Politics by Principle, Not Interest - Towards Nondiscriminatory Democracy (Hardcover, New)
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The very logic of majority rule implies unequal treatment or
discrimination. If left unconstrained, majority coalitions will
promote the interests of their own members at the expense of other
persons. This book focuses on the effects of applying a generality
constraint on the political process. Under this requirement,
majorities would be constitutionally prohibited from treating
different persons and groups differently. The generality principle
is familiar in that all persons are to be treated equally. In
summary, this book extends the generality norm to politics. Several
defences of equal treatment or generality are developed and
applied. These include the familiar intuition that invokes
fairness. But the primary argument here is centred on political
efficiency, which is increased when governments are constrained to
treat persons or groups generally rather than differentially. The
political efficiency defence of the generality constraint is based
on a public choice analysis of the implication of majoritarian
discrimination.
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