Vol. 34 No. 1 (2014)
Articles

Has Political Equality Really Any Value?

Facundo García Valerde
Universidad de Buenos Aires, Argentina - CONICET - CIF

Published 2015-05-01

Keywords

  • Igualdad política,
  • Nivelación hacia abajo,
  • Bienes posicionales
  • Political equality,
  • Leveling down objection,
  • Positional goods

Abstract

 The main objective of this article is to defend the normative value of a principle of equal opportunities to politically influence against a principle which distributes them unequally but improving the least advantaged position. In order to do that, the article argues that political influence is a special kind of good which is able to reject the leveling down objection and that political equality, although it could be defeated by epistemic considerations, preserves a prima facie value.

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