• The State's Duty to Foster Voter Competence 

      Giavazzi, Michele; Kapelner, Zsolt (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022-09-26)
      In this paper we discuss an often-neglected topic in the literature on the ethics of voting. Our aim is to provide an account of what states are obligated to do, so that voters may fulfil their role as public decision-makers in an epistemically competent manner. We argue that the state ought to provide voters with what we call a substantive opportunity for competence. This entails that the state ...
    • Strukturális igazságtalanság és a felelősség problémája 

      Kapelner, Zsolt (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      Structural injustice is a special class of injustice which stems not from unjust or negligent governments, legislatures, groups of individuals, but from unjust social structures. Such social structures include the patriarchy, structural racism, and the class structure generating unjust social inequalities. Who is responsible for creating and abolishing such structural injustices? The most influential ...
    • What does it mean to have an equal say? 

      Kapelner, Zsolt (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023-06-17)
      Democracy is the form of government in which citizens have an equal say in political decision-making. But what does this mean precisely? Having an equal say is often defined either in terms of equal power to influence political decision-making or in terms of appropriate consideration, i.e., as a matter of attributing appropriate deliberative weight to citizens’ judgement in political decision-making. ...