Kurzfassung

What consequences does the ubiquity, inevitability and often intractability of influence processes have for the legitimacy of liberal representative democracy? What does it imply for the ascription of responsibility for political decisions and their consequences to the different agents involved? What follows for the design of justifiable democratic institutions? Answers to these and related questions are anything but self-evident, nor are they irrelevant to our way of thinking about...What consequences does the ubiquity, inevitability and often intractability of influence processes have for the legitimacy of liberal representative democracy? What does it imply for the ascription of responsibility for political decisions and their consequences to the different agents involved? What follows for the design of justifiable democratic institutions? Answers to these and related questions are anything but self-evident, nor are they irrelevant to our way of thinking about democracy. The project seeks to contribute to these underresearched issues. » weiterlesen» einklappen