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- Title
Wealth, Political Inequality, and Resilience: Revisiting the Democratic Argument for Limitarianism.
- Authors
Volacu, Alexandru
- Abstract
In this paper I aim to provide a novel account of the Democratic Argument for limitarianism. I first claim that the standard version of this argument is questionable due to its reliance on a problematic central premise, namely that excessive wealth damages democracy because of its detrimental impact on political equality. Subsequently, I relocate the fundamental democratic worry in regard to excessive wealth in the process of backsliding, and more specifically in the relation between excessive wealth and political polarization. I then offer a new account of the Democratic Argument for limitarianism which envisages wealth capping as instrumental for democratic resilience, but I maintain that the argument is not unambiguously successful.
- Subjects
DEMOCRACY; WEALTH; ARGUMENT; EQUALITY; PRACTICAL politics
- Publication
Res Publica (13564765), 2024, Vol 30, Issue 3, p589
- ISSN
1356-4765
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11158-023-09646-8