Economic participation rights and the all-affected principle
- The democratic boundary problem raises the question of who has democratic participation rights in a given polity and why. One possible solution to this problem is the all-affected principle (AAP), according to which a polity ought to enfranchise all persons whose interests are affected by the polity’s decisions in a morally significant way. While AAP offers a plausible principle of democratic enfranchisement, its supporters have so far not paid sufficient attention to economic participation rights. I argue that if one commits oneself to AAP, one must also commit oneself to the view that political participation rights are not necessarily the only, and not necessarily the best, way to protect morally weighty interests. I also argue that economic participation rights raise important worries about democratic accountability, which is why their exercise must be constrained by a number of moral duties.
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| Author: | Annette Zimmermann |
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| URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-608850 |
| DOI: | https://doi.org/10.21248/gjn.10.2.144 |
| ISSN: | 1835-6842 |
| Parent Title (English): | Global justice : theory, practice, rhetoric |
| Publisher: | The Global Justice Network |
| Document Type: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2018/09/24 |
| Date of first Publication: | 2018/09/24 |
| Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
| Release Date: | 2021/06/09 |
| Tag: | all-affected principle; democratic boundary problem; economic participation; non-citizens; transnational democratic inclusion |
| Volume: | 10 |
| Issue: | 2 |
| Page Number: | 21 |
| First Page: | 1 |
| Last Page: | 21 |
| HeBIS-PPN: | 481936653 |
| Institutes: | Gesellschaftswissenschaften / Gesellschaftswissenschaften |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 30 Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie / 300 Sozialwissenschaften |
| 3 Sozialwissenschaften / 34 Recht / 340 Recht | |
| Sammlungen: | Universitätspublikationen |
| Licence (German): |  Deutsches Urheberrecht |
