Democratic rights: the substance of self-government

The value theory of democracy

Introduction

Procedural democractic theories

Procedure-independent theories: epistemic and democratic

Conclusion

Paradigmatic democratic rights and citizens as addressees of law

Introduction

Citizens as authors and addressees: co-originality and citizens' status

Rule of law

Freedom of expression and conscience

Conclusion

Democratic contractualism: a framework for justifiable coercion

Introduction

A lexicon of citizenship

The principle of democracy's public reason

The inclusion principle

Conclusion

Public justification and the right to privacy

Introduction

Situating democratic privacy: a critique of liberal and republican accounts

Relevance and the boundaries of privacy

Privacy, equality, and democratically justifiable coercion

Conclusion

The rights of the punished

Introduction

The need for justification to criminals qua citizens: the problem with punishment as war

State punishment as an issue of political morality: punishing criminals qua persons versus criminals qua citizens

Democratic rights against punishment

Capital punishment

Conclusion

Private property and the right to welfare

Introduction

The right to private property and state coercion

Democratic contractualism and the right to private property

Democratic proposals for welfare rights

Objections

Conclusion

Judicial review: balancing democratic rights and procedures

Introduction

The limits of a pure outcomes-based theory

The failure of pure procedural theories

Impure procedural and outcomes-based theories

The flaws with formal democratic arguments and the need for examples in a theory of democracy

The objection from benevolent dictatorship

Conclusion : democratic rights and contemporary politics

Bibliography

Index.