The State's Duty to Foster Voter Competence

The State's Duty to Foster Voter Competence

In this paper we discuss an often-neglected topic in the literature on the ethics of voting. Our aim is to provide an account of what states are obligated to do, so that voters may fulfil their role as public decision-makers in an epistemically competent manner. We argue that the state ought to prov...

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