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A Century of Compulsory Voting in AustraliaPublic Reason, Compulsory Voting and Australian Democracy

A Century of Compulsory Voting in Australia: Public Reason, Compulsory Voting and Australian... [This chapter explores the connection between compulsory voting in Australia and public reason, i.e. the view that political rules are legitimate only if they are justified by appealing to reasons that all citizens can accept at some level of idealization. While constitutional democracies such as the US assign a significant role to institutions like the Supreme Court in the process of public reasoning, parliamentary supremacy regimes rely instead more extensively on democracy and majorities. In a polity like Australia, which presents many features typical of a parliamentary supremacy regime, compulsory voting can play a key role in guaranteeing public reason, by forcing public officials to take into account a broad variety of perspectives, interests and demands, and therefore refrain from appealing to sectarian non-public reasons when justifying political rules.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

A Century of Compulsory Voting in AustraliaPublic Reason, Compulsory Voting and Australian Democracy

Part of the Elections, Voting, Technology Book Series
Editors: Bonotti, Matteo; Strangio, Paul

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Publisher
Springer Singapore
Copyright
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2021
ISBN
978-981-33-4024-4
Pages
189 –211
DOI
10.1007/978-981-33-4025-1_10
Publisher site
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Abstract

[This chapter explores the connection between compulsory voting in Australia and public reason, i.e. the view that political rules are legitimate only if they are justified by appealing to reasons that all citizens can accept at some level of idealization. While constitutional democracies such as the US assign a significant role to institutions like the Supreme Court in the process of public reasoning, parliamentary supremacy regimes rely instead more extensively on democracy and majorities. In a polity like Australia, which presents many features typical of a parliamentary supremacy regime, compulsory voting can play a key role in guaranteeing public reason, by forcing public officials to take into account a broad variety of perspectives, interests and demands, and therefore refrain from appealing to sectarian non-public reasons when justifying political rules.]

Published: Mar 14, 2021

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