<> <http://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#comment> "The repository administrator has not yet configured an RDF license."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string> . <> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/primaryTopic> <https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10181039> . <https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10181039> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/Thesis> . <https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10181039> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/Article> . <https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10181039> <http://purl.org/dc/terms/title> "Political Equality, Democratic Authority, and Legal Interpretation"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string> . <https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10181039> <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/abstract> "Does equality justify majority rule as a mechanism for collective decision-making? And are decisions made by majoritarian procedures (or by democratic procedures more broadly) morally authoritative? \r\nIn the first 5 chapters of this thesis, I will pursue these two questions in turn. In this vein, in chapters 2 and 3, I examine two distinct principles of equality – one, which I call equality of opportunity for negative control, and which is derived from a claim to not being subordinated to others, and the other, which I call arbitral equality, and which is violated when A’s moral judgments are treated as moral judgments, while B’s moral judgments are treated as preferences. I argue that the conjunction of these two principles entails the requirement of majority rule. \r\nIn chapters 4 and 5, I turn to the question of whether decisions made by democratic procedures are morally authoritative. I first consider authority in its content-independent aspect, and then in its preemptive aspect. In chapter 4, I argue that, while equality of opportunity for negative control is not able to vindicate authority in its content-independent aspect, arbitral equality is able to do so. Nevertheless, I argue that neither of them can fully vindicate authority in its preemptive sense. In order to defend this kind of authority, I turn in chapter 5 to a set of non-egalitarian considerations, namely considerations related to moral fallibility. \r\nIn chapter 6, I turn to a third question: Are there any interesting claims regarding the manner in which judges ought to interpret and apply statutes that follow from a specific account of democratic authority? I argue that my account of democratic preemptive authority from chapter 5 entails some interesting claims about how judges ought to apply statutes."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string> . <https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10181039> <http://purl.org/dc/terms/date> "2023-11-28" . <https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/document/1675276> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <http://purl.org/ontology/bibo/Document> . <https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/org/ext-a64c3df5861c6582807add1abaadf2af> <http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#type> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/Organization> . <https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/org/ext-a64c3df5861c6582807add1abaadf2af> <http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/name> "UCL (University College London)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string> . <https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10181039> <http://purl.org/dc/terms/issuer> <https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/org/ext-a64c3df5861c6582807add1abaadf2af> . 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