dc.date.accessioned | 2023-08-17T15:12:14Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-08-17T15:12:14Z | |
dc.date.created | 2023-07-26T10:41:48Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Fjørtoft, Trym Nohr . Inductive Risk and the Legitimacy of Non-Majoritarian Institutions. British Journal of Political Science. 2023 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10852/103302 | |
dc.description.abstract | Abstract
In political discourse, it is common to claim that non-majoritarian institutions are legitimate because they are technical and value-free. Even though most analysts disagree, many arguments for non-majoritarian legitimacy rest on claims that work best if institutions are, in fact, value-free. This paper develops a novel standard for non-majoritarian legitimacy. It builds on the rich debate over the value-free ideal in philosophy of science, which has not, so far, been applied systematically to political theory literature on non-majoritarian institutions. This paper suggests that the argument from inductive risk, a strong argument against the value-free ideal, (1) shows why a naive claim to value freedom is a poor general foundation for non-majoritarian legitimacy; (2) provides a device to assess the degree of democratic value inputs required for an institution to be legitimate; which (3) shows the conditions under which a claim to technical legitimacy might still be normatively acceptable. | |
dc.language | EN | |
dc.rights | Attribution 4.0 International | |
dc.rights.uri | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | |
dc.title | Inductive Risk and the Legitimacy of Non-Majoritarian Institutions | |
dc.title.alternative | ENEngelskEnglishInductive Risk and the Legitimacy of Non-Majoritarian Institutions | |
dc.type | Journal article | |
dc.creator.author | Fjørtoft, Trym Nohr | |
cristin.unitcode | 185,17,4,0 | |
cristin.unitname | ARENA Senter for europaforskning | |
cristin.ispublished | true | |
cristin.fulltext | original | |
cristin.qualitycode | 2 | |
dc.identifier.cristin | 2163613 | |
dc.identifier.bibliographiccitation | info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:ctx&ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:journal&rft.jtitle=British Journal of Political Science&rft.volume=&rft.spage=&rft.date=2023 | |
dc.identifier.jtitle | British Journal of Political Science | |
dc.identifier.startpage | 1 | |
dc.identifier.endpage | 16 | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123423000200 | |
dc.type.document | Tidsskriftartikkel | |
dc.type.peerreviewed | Peer reviewed | |
dc.source.issn | 0007-1234 | |
dc.type.version | PublishedVersion | |