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An inspiring conversation about democracy

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

CHAPTER

The Trade-Off Between Justice and Democracy

I think the criticism somebody would make of the position we're putting forward here is to what degree does approaching democracy in this way require accepting injustice in a deeper way. I'm working on a book under the working title justice by means of democracy so one of my personal intellectual ambitions is to break through the view that justice and democracy are trade offs with each other. So, there's a really long sort of theoretical story behind all of that but just to try to sum up basically at the end of the day, I think that democracy,. especially if you can build a structure where there are lots of decision making spaces will yield more solutions than other forms.

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