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The article aims to review influential accounts of democratic duties and categorize their justification.

March 5, 2026

Democratic Duties

Key Points

The article aims to review influential accounts of democratic duties and categorize their justification.
Organized the debate into three normative reasons: justice, citizen equality, and civic virtue.
Reviewed various accounts of democratic duties as presented in the literature.
Focused on specific emblematic duties, including the duty to vote and jury duty.
Identified and categorized three primary reasons grounding democratic duties.
Highlighted that duties can be justified by multiple considerations simultaneously.
Demonstrated fragmented debates within the literature on democratic responsibilities.

Abstract

This article reviews some of the most influential accounts of our democratic duties. It organizes the debate into three normative reasons that ground said duties: reasons of justice, reasons of citizen equality, and reasons of civic virtue. Although this division is somewhat forced—since duties can be justified on several considerations at the same time—it helps us organize the extremely scattered debates in the literature. Finally, the article concentrates more specifically on a number of duties as emblematic of the conversation, including the duty to vote, jury duty, and others.

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