Amartya Sen has powerfully made the case that democracy brings with it guarantees of social justice. Summarising for speed, Sen has argued that democracies don’t have famines, that they provide regulatory minimum standards that ensure that earthquakes don’t result in huge death-tolls as poorly-built structures collapse, and so on. In a democracy, we are very [...]
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