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BL
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| Record Number
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704593
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b526782
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| Main Entry
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Estlund, David M
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| Title & Author
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Democratic authority : : a philosophical framework /\ David M. Estlund
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| Publication Statement
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Princeton, N.J. :: Princeton University Press,, c2008
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xi, 309 p. :: ill. ;; 25 cm
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| ISBN
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0691124175 (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 9780691124179 (cloth : alk. paper)
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-302) and index
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| Contents
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Democratic authority -- Truth and despotism -- An acceptability requirement -- The limits of fair procedure -- The flight from substance -- Epistemic proceduralism -- Authority and normative consent -- Original authority and the democracy/jury analogy -- How would democracy know? -- The real speech situation -- Why not an epistocracy of the educated? -- The irrelevance of the jury theorem -- Rejecting the democracy/contractualism analogy -- Utopophobia : concession and aspiration in democratic theory
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Authority
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Democracy
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Democracy-- Philosophy
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| Dewey Classification
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321.8
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| LC Classification
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JC423.E714 2008
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JC423.E714 2008
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