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Título
Rule of Law and Political Representation
Autor
Año del Documento
2021
Editorial
Springer
Descripción
Producción Científica
Documento Fuente
Hague Journal on the Rule of Law, 2021.
Abstract
How do the rule of law and political representation relate to each other? I answer
this question, hitherto neglected by rule-of-law scholars, taking my cue from Joseph
Raz’s revision of his conception of the rule of law and by relying on a distinction
between preferences and interests, which pervades discussions of political represen tation. I argue that political representatives’ attention to their constituents’ prefer ences, and not just their interests, is a necessary feature of a conception of represen tation that expresses a robust allegiance to the rule of law. More specifcally, that
such allegiance is better honoured when representatives are responsive to prefer ences warranted by public interests. I ofer two groups of rule-of-law reasons for
that claim. First, because respect for preferences by representatives facilitates the
conditions for the law to be obeyed. Second, respect for those preferences through
the justifcation of the representatives’ collective decisions allows for accountability
and for non-arbitrary creation and application of the law. I fnish addressing a three fold objection to my reliance on preferences as objects that representatives should
consider when making their decisions
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72 Filosofía
Palabras Clave
Rule of law
Representation
Preferences
Public interests
Constitutionalism
ISSN
1876-4045
Revisión por pares
SI
Patrocinador
Publicación en abierto financiada por el Consorcio de Bibliotecas Universitarias de Castilla y León (BUCLE), con cargo al Programa Operativo 2014ES16RFOP009 FEDER 2014-2020 DE CASTILLA Y LEÓN, Actuación:20007-CL - Apoyo Consorcio BUCLE
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eng
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