The All Affected Principle, and the weighting of votes

Kim Angell and Robert Huseby
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Kim Angell: 558124Aalborg University, Denmark
Robert Huseby: 6305University of Oslo, Norway

Politics, Philosophy & Economics, 2020, vol. 19, issue 4, 366-381

Abstract: In this article we defend the view that, on the All Affected Principle of voting rights, the weight of a person’s vote on a decision should be determined by and only by the degree to which that decision affects her interests, independently of her voting weights on other decisions. Further, we consider two recent alternative proposals for how the All Affected Principle should weight votes, and give reasons for rejecting both.

Keywords: All Affected Principle; enfranchisement; weighted votes; democracy; social justice (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1177/1470594X20949938

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