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Second-personal authority and the practice of democracy

Publication date2022
Abstract

What makes democracy a particular mode of social and political organization? We argue that the particularity of democracy consists in the logic that characterizes the form of authority this practice constitutes between its participants. This is a logic of mutuality and second-personality, which can be best understood by looking at the relations between democratic decision-makers as democratic voting primitively illustrates.

Keywords
  • Political philosophy
  • Political theory
  • Democracy
  • Democratic theory
  • Democratic practice
  • Voting
  • Authority
Citation (ISO format)
CEVA, Emanuela, OTTONELLI, Valeria. Second-personal authority and the practice of democracy. In: Constellations: An International Journal of Critical And Democratic Theory, 2022, vol. 29, n° 4, p. 460–474. doi: 10.1111/1467-8675.12575
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ISSN of the journal1351-0487
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