On Civil Disobedience and Liberal Democracy

Tine Hindkjær Madsen

On Civil Disobedience and Liberal Democracy

Tine Hindkjær Madsen

Institut for Kommunikation

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Abstract

The dissertation explores the complex relationship between civil disobedience and liberal democracy. Civil disobedience is an illegal mode of political protest that raises a moral problem in liberal democracy, because there is arguably a moral duty to obey democratically enacted laws and respect the decision of your fellow citizens, even when their decisions are wrong or unjust. At the same, acts of civil disobedience can serve as a valuable tool for relieving the great injustice and the democratic deficits that can occur in liberal democracies.The dissertation examines when it is morally warranted to engage in civil disobedience in a liberal democracy. Specifically, the dissertation considers whether 1) there is a belief-relative moral right to civil disobedience in a liberal democracy 2) whether superior political knowledge can defeat majority authority 3) whether dissenters are epistemically arrogant.

Originalsprog	Engelsk

Forlag	Det Humanistiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet
Antal sider	169
Status	Udgivet - jul. 2019

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Ph.d. afhandling 2019 HindkjaerForlagets udgivne version, 1,05 MBLicens: CC BY-NC-ND

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