Thomas Christiano’s research while affiliated with University of Arizona and other places

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Democratic equality and the problem of persistent minorities
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November 1994

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Philosophical Papers

Thomas Christiano

L'A. se propose de reconcilier les deux affirmations apparemment contradictoires selon lequelles l'egalite democratique est intrinsequement juste et l'existence de minorites persistantes profondement injuste. la cle de cette reconciliation reside dans le fait que le critere d'egalite est different selon l'un et l'autre cas: il s'agit d'une part de l'egalite des ressources et, d'autr part, d'une egale distribution de la satisfaction des interets

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... In this article, we claim that this dissatisfaction is rooted in a position of losers of representative democracy, which we could describe as being in a situation of 'persistent minority' within the democratic system (Abizadeh 2021;Christiano 1994). It is well established that being on the losers' side of representative democracy is associated with a lower degree of political satisfaction (Anderson et al. 2005) and leads to being more open to various forms of institutional change that challenge the purely representative logic (Bowler and Donovan 2019;Bowler, Donovan, and Karp 2007;Ceka and Magalhaes 2020;Smith, Tolbert, and Keller 2010). ...

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Support for Deliberative mini-Publics among the Losers of Representative Democracy
Democratic equality and the problem of persistent minorities
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  • November 1994

Philosophical Papers

Thomas Christiano