Institutional Values, or How to Say What Democracy Is

Southwest Philosophy Review 30 (1):235-242 (2014)
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In this paper, I describe a category of political values that I call “institutional values.” An institutional value is distinct from an ordinary political value like justice by having both descriptive and evaluative components. I defend a method of sorting out correct from incorrect conceptions of an institutional value that relies on two ideas: coherence and verisimilitude

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10.5840/swphilreview201430123

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Maxims and thick ethical concepts.A. W. Moore - 2006 - Ratio 19 (2):129–147.
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