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    Democratic decisions are legitimate if the aggregative pr... — Carmelics
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    Democratic decisions are legitimate if the aggregative process is fair

    Democracy & Governance
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    • 1.Pure proceduralism holds that the legitimacy of democratic decisions derives from the fairness of the procedure used to make them
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    • 2.Aggregative democracy takes the aggregation of individual preferences (e.g., through voting) to be the key feature of democracy
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    • 1.Aggregative fairness can produce outcomes that systematically disadvantage minorities, violating basic rights that constrain legitimate authority.
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    • 2.Procedural fairness is necessary but not sufficient for legitimacy; outcomes must meet substantive threshold conditions (Dworkin's 'constitutional constraints').
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    • 3.A procedure that fairly aggregates preferences for slavery or persecution cannot confer legitimacy on those outcomes, demonstrating procedure alone is insufficient.
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    • 1.Deliberative theorists (Habermas, Cohen) argue legitimacy requires reasoned public justification among equals, not mere preference aggregation.
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    • 2.Aggregating pre-political preferences launders existing social inequalities and power asymmetries into apparently fair outcomes, corrupting procedural neutrality.
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    There are several ways in which pure proceduralism might be understood. On an account of aggregative democracy—which takes the aggregation of individual preferences, for example through voting, to be the key feature of democracy—pure proceduralism implies that democratic decisions are legitimate if the aggregative process is fair. Kenneth O. May’s defense of majority rule (May 1952) implies a view of this sort (see also Dahl 1956).
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