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June 7, 2026Bioethics NewsOpen Access

Eliciting normative judgments for ethically and politically legitimate policy-making

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LTLydia TsiakiriSYShang Long YeoJSJulian Savulescu

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Overview

Comparative assessment of referendum and CREP in generating legitimate policy in ethically contentious domains.

Key Points

  • This paper examines how different public decision-making procedures ensure political legitimacy in policy-making.
  • Comparative assessment of referendums and Collective Reflective Equilibrium in Practice (CREP).
  • Case study on personal responsibility in healthcare resource allocation.
  • Utilization of surveys, focus groups, and citizen juries for data collection.
  • Referendums ensure political legitimacy but risk oversimplification of public preferences.
  • CREP incorporates nuanced reasoning and expert opinions for ethically justifiable policy recommendations.
  • CREP provides stronger political legitimacy by accommodating disagreement and filtering biases.

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Tsiakiri et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a250c7d7def13d035e1c9f6https://doi.org/10.1007/s40592-026-00291-4
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