Jason Brennan, Lisa Hill

Compulsory Voting

For and Against

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Leading political theorists Jason Brennan and Lisa Hill debate the drawbacks and benefits of voter turnout.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 370g
• ISBN-13: 9781107613928
• ISBN-10: 1107613922
• Artikelnr.: 40511794

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Medicine Worse than Disease? Against Compulsory Voting Jason Brennan: 1. The heavy burden of proof
2. Democratic legitimacy and the consequences of compulsion
3. Do your share or else
4. Should we force the drunk to drive? Part II. Compulsory Voting Defended Lisa Hill: 5. Compulsory voting: background, effects, feasibility and basic premises
6. Turnout, abstention, and democratic legitimacy
7. Is compulsory voting an unjustified burden on personal autonomy? Is there a right not to vote?
8. Is requiring people to vote contrary to democratic values?
9. Conclusion.