Representation, epistemic democracy, and political parties in John Stuart Mill and José de Alencar

John Stuart Mill and José de Alencar lived at the same time and wrote about the same issues, and yet the connections between their political theories remain unexplored. Seeking to offer a comparison of both theories, this article argues that reading Mill's "Considerations on Representative...

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Autor principal: Dalaqua, Gustavo Hessmann
Outros Autores: Tribunal Superior Eleitoral
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: English
Publicado em: 2021
Assuntos:
Democracia
Partido político
Representação política
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spelling oai:bdjur.stj.jus.br.col_bdtse_4134:oai:localhost:bdtse-90742024-10-14 Representation, epistemic democracy, and political parties in John Stuart Mill and José de Alencar Dalaqua, Gustavo Hessmann Tribunal Superior Eleitoral Democracia Partido político Representação política John Stuart Mill and José de Alencar lived at the same time and wrote about the same issues, and yet the connections between their political theories remain unexplored. Seeking to offer a comparison of both theories, this article argues that reading Mill's "Considerations on Representative Government" (1977b) vis-à-vis Alencar's "Systema representativo" (1868) brings to the fore two aspects of Mill's political theory that Mill scholars usually overlook: 01. political representation is endowed with constructivist power; 02. epistemic democracy and agonistic democracy can be mutually reinforcing. A comparative reading between Mill and Alencar reveals that representation does not simply reproduce or mirror pre-given ideas and identities, but also constructs them. In addition, it reveals that epistemic democracy is not at odds with agonistic democracy. To be sure, both Alencar and Mill were agonistic democrats precisely because they were epistemic democrats. They recognized conflict as a fundamental aspect of democracy because they believed political disagreement weeds out inaccurate information, expands the knowledge of politicians, and leads to the construction of more reasonable, wiser decisions. Thus, Alencar and Mill thought political parties were crucial to democracy insofar as they injected conflict into political debate. 2021-08-19T19:28:12Z 2021-08-19T19:28:12Z 2018 Artigo DALAQUA, Gustavo Hessmann. Representation, epistemic democracy, and political parties in John Stuart Mill and José de Alencar. Brazilian Political Science Review, São Paulo, v. 12, n. 2, p. 1-28, 2018. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/1981-3821201800020004. http://bibliotecadigital.tse.jus.br/xmlui/handle/bdtse/9074 en <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.pt_BR"><img alt="Licença Creative Commons" style="border-width:0" src="https://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-sa/4.0/88x31.png" /></a><br />Este item está licenciado com uma Licença <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.pt_BR">Creative Commons Atribuição-CompartilhaIgual 4.0 Internacional</a>. 28 p.
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topic Democracia
Partido político
Representação política
spellingShingle Democracia
Partido político
Representação política
Dalaqua, Gustavo Hessmann
Representation, epistemic democracy, and political parties in John Stuart Mill and José de Alencar
description John Stuart Mill and José de Alencar lived at the same time and wrote about the same issues, and yet the connections between their political theories remain unexplored. Seeking to offer a comparison of both theories, this article argues that reading Mill's "Considerations on Representative Government" (1977b) vis-à-vis Alencar's "Systema representativo" (1868) brings to the fore two aspects of Mill's political theory that Mill scholars usually overlook: 01. political representation is endowed with constructivist power; 02. epistemic democracy and agonistic democracy can be mutually reinforcing. A comparative reading between Mill and Alencar reveals that representation does not simply reproduce or mirror pre-given ideas and identities, but also constructs them. In addition, it reveals that epistemic democracy is not at odds with agonistic democracy. To be sure, both Alencar and Mill were agonistic democrats precisely because they were epistemic democrats. They recognized conflict as a fundamental aspect of democracy because they believed political disagreement weeds out inaccurate information, expands the knowledge of politicians, and leads to the construction of more reasonable, wiser decisions. Thus, Alencar and Mill thought political parties were crucial to democracy insofar as they injected conflict into political debate.
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title_short Representation, epistemic democracy, and political parties in John Stuart Mill and José de Alencar
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