Compulsory Voting
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I Medicine Worse Than the Disease? -- 1 The Heavy Burden of Proof -- 1.1 Where Are We the People? -- 1.2 Against Compulsory Voting -- 1.3 Compulsory Voting "Works," but So What? -- 1.4 Who Holds the Burden of Proof? -- 1.5 The Burden of Proof: The Logic of Argumentation -- 1.6 The Burden of Proof: The Morality of Compulsion -- 1.7 Strong Doubt Kills Compulsory Voting -- 1.8 The "Right Not to Vote" as a Red Herring -- 1.9 Good Consequences Are Not Enough -- 1.10 How Compulsory is Compulsory Voting? -- 1.11 Noncoercive Alternatives Kill the Case for Compulsory Voting -- 1.12 Summary So Far -- 2 Democratic Legitimacy and the Consequences of Compulsion -- 2.1 Compulsory Voting and Government by Consent -- 2.2 Compulsory Voting and Democratic Legitimacy -- 2.3 Making Government "More Democratic" -- 2.4 Compulsory Voting and Representativeness -- 2.4.1 The Argument -- 2.4.2 Representativeness without Compulsion: Voter Lotteries -- 2.4.3 Must We Protect Nonvoters from Voters? -- 2.4.4 Do the Disadvantaged Know How to Help Themselves? -- 2.4.5 If They Vote, Will Anyone Listen? -- 2.4.6 Summary -- 2.5 Compulsory Voting, Trust, and Social Solidarity -- 2.6 Other Purported Consequences of Compulsion -- 2.7 Conclusion -- 3 Do Your Share or Else -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Not All Moral Duties Are Enforceable -- 3.3 Does Compulsory Voting Enhance Liberty? -- 3.4 Fixing an Assurance Problem -- 3.5 Fixing Free Riding -- 3.5.1 Incompatibility with Other Arguments -- 3.5.2 Is the Duty to Vote Enforceable? -- 5.5.3 The Jury-Duty Analogy -- 5.5.4 Are Nonvoters Free Riders? -- 3.6 Conclusion -- 4 Should We Force the Drunk to Drive? -- 4.1 The State of the Debate -- 4.2 The Magic Wand -- 4.3 Imposing Less Competent and Lower-Quality Government Is Unjust.
