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This chapter discusses the social and economic conditions needed for the epistemic value of deliberative democracy. A division of epistemic and political labor should be implemented, with citizens and their representatives setting the aims and values the society is to pursue, and experts and policymakers devising means (laws and decisions) for the achievement of these aims. In the second part of the chapter I discuss whether political equality should go deeper than just the formal politics, rejecting Estlund’s view and claiming that the informal political sphere (e.g. contributions to political campaigns) should be more egalitarian as well.
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Cerovac, I. (2020). Institutionalizing Epistemic Democracy. In: Epistemic Democracy and Political Legitimacy. Palgrave Studies in Ethics and Public Policy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-44602-4_6
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