The value theory of democracy
Procedural democractic theories
Procedure-independent theories: epistemic and democratic
Paradigmatic democratic rights and citizens as addressees of law
Citizens as authors and addressees: co-originality and citizens' status
Freedom of expression and conscience
Democratic contractualism: a framework for justifiable coercion
The principle of democracy's public reason
Public justification and the right to privacy
Situating democratic privacy: a critique of liberal and republican accounts
Relevance and the boundaries of privacy
Privacy, equality, and democratically justifiable coercion
The rights of the punished
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
Private property and the right to welfare
The right to private property and state coercion
Democratic contractualism and the right to private property
Democratic proposals for welfare rights
Judicial review: balancing democratic rights and procedures
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