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dc.contributor.advisorWall, Steven P.
dc.contributor.authorPaco Abenoza, Arià
dc.creatorPaco Abenoza, Arià
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-01T04:23:26Z
dc.date.available2025-02-01T04:23:26Z
dc.date.issued2025
dc.identifier.citationPaco Abenoza, Arià. (2025). A Contextual Theory of Voter Responsibility (Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, USA).
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10150/675843
dc.description.abstractThis dissertation tries to contribute to the thriving debate about the duties of the voter. It attempts to construe a general theory of voter responsibility. In the way there, it makes some standalone claims: (1) that the common good is a vague and unfit concept for leading discussion, and that, at best, it hides banal statism, hence (2) that the most relevant question a theory of voter responsibility has to answer is that of what are the right reasons for voting, and (3) that pluralism entails a presumption in favor of the permissibility of some degree of apolitical life, if it can be afforded by the community. After reviewing the literature, I identify an unreconciled division regarding what reasons can aptly determine vote. I argue that, because of that, the available theories of voter responsibility are unable to capture the width of different cases and apt motivations for voting in political elections. Rather than a single, all-encompassing answer to the question of how we should vote, I propose a context-dependent theory, able to allow for prudential reasons and even failure to participate in some cases while at the same time to impose a strong duty to vote for moral reasons in others. The dissertation attempts to theoretically encapsulate the commonsense notion that there is both a striving against injustice and a striving for the better in every political decision.
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherThe University of Arizona.
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dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
dc.subjectcontext
dc.subjectdemocracy
dc.subjectduties
dc.subjectpluralism
dc.subjectreasons
dc.subjectvoting
dc.titleA Contextual Theory of Voter Responsibility
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dc.typeElectronic Dissertation
thesis.degree.grantorUniversity of Arizona
thesis.degree.leveldoctoral
dc.contributor.committeememberChristiano, Thomas
dc.contributor.committeememberDovi, Suzanne
dc.contributor.committeememberSchmidtz, David
thesis.degree.disciplineGraduate College
thesis.degree.disciplinePhilosophy
thesis.degree.namePh.D.
refterms.dateFOA2025-02-01T04:23:26Z


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