Julia Maskivker’s The Duty to Vote is a very welcome contribution to the discussion of the theory of citizen participation in politics.1¹ This is an area that has received far too little attention from philosophers and political theorists. It is receiving more attention recently due to the spate of books by mostly libertarian writers, which argue that citizens in a democracy tend to be poorly informed, or at best, excessively belligerent, and that this fact is one that arises from the very nature of citizen participation in a democracy. These writers argue that democracy itself should be scrapped in significant part in favour of rule by experts or massive reduction in the size and scope of government in order to give greater scope to markets in the regulation of the social world we live in (see Pincione and Teson 2006, Caplan 2008, Somin 2014, Brennan 2016).

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民主参与的道德和社会基础

朱莉娅Maskivker的义务投票是公民参与的理论的讨论非常受欢迎的贡献politics.1 ¹这个领域很少受到哲学家和政治理论家的关注。由于多数自由主义者的著作大量涌现，这引起了越来越多的关注，这些学者认为民主国家的公民往往知识不多，或者充其量是过于好战，而这一事实是由民主的本性引起的。公民参与民主。这些作者认为，民主本身应在很大程度上被废experts，而应由专家来统治，或者应大幅减少政府的规模和范围，以便在我们所生活的社会世界的监管中为市场提供更大的范围（见Pincione和Teson 2006，Caplan 2008，Somin 2014，Brennan 2016）。