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In Democratic Theory Naturalized, Walter Horn proposes his theory of "CHOICE Voluntarism" to distill populism to its core premise: giving people the power to govern themselves without the constraints imposed by those on the left or the right. Horn analyzes what makes for fair aggregation and appropriate, deliberative representation.
List of contents
Chapter One: Axioms, Paradoxes, and Alleged Deficits of Democracy
Chapter Two: Individual Values Naturalized I: Objective Voluntarism
Chapter Three: Individual Values Naturalized II: The More Good, the Better
Chapter Four: Equal People or Equal Votes?
Chapter Five: Who May Vote I: Interest or Inhabitancy?
Chapter Six: Who May Vote II: Residence, Age, Criminality, and Competence
Chapter Seven: Votes and Their Aggregation I: Majority Rule and Majoritarianism
Chapter Eight: Votes and Their Aggregation II: Minority Representation and How it Must be Combined with Majority Rule
Chapter Nine: Political Representation I: Direct Participation, Delegation, or Controlled Trusteeship?
Chapter Ten: Political Representation II: Deliberation, Camerality, Term Limits and Judicial Review of Legislative Procedures
Chapter Eleven: A Stouter, but More Minimalistic Constitution: Other Teachings of Naturalized Democratic Theory
Chapter Twelve: Last Words on Distilled Populism: Objections and Responses
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By Walter Horn
Summary
In Democratic Theory Naturalized, Walter Horn proposes his theory of "CHOICE Voluntarism" to distill populism to its core premise: giving people the power to govern themselves without the constraints imposed by those on the left or the right. Horn analyzes what makes for fair aggregation and appropriate, deliberative representation.
