Tag: instrumental value

31 Jan 2008

The Sources of the Value of Democracy

In some ways, I would give democracy a little bit more credit. In other ways, a little bit less.
For more credit, we could turn to Sen, his analysis of famine and democracy, and the now famous remark that ‘democracies don’t have famines.’ To some extent, this is an extension of ‘interest group politics,’ remarked on [...]