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Procedural and Output Respect

Democracy
Political Participation
Political Theory
Populism
P03

Wednesday 16:00 - 17:00 BST (25/11/2020)

Abstract

Speaker: Christian F. Rostbøll, University of Copenhagen | Empirical studies indicate that many people feel disrespected by the political system and that populism provides people with the sought for respect (e.g. Cramer, Fukuyama, Gidron and Hall, and Hochschild). But what kind of respect are we speaking of here and is it something that people can demand based on democratic principles? This chapter highlights the importance of distinguishing between two different questions: First, is the feeling of political disrespect caused by the reality of unequal power or by some having lost former superior power? Second, does the feeling of (dis)respect derive from one’s standing in the political process (“procedural respect”), or from the extent to which political outcomes correspond to one’s political claims (“output respect”)? Under circumstances of disagreement, it is perfectly possible that there are no violations of procedural respect, while some people will not be able to see the outcome of the political process as treating them with respect. The problem with populism is that it lacks an understanding of the importance of procedural respect in a pluralist society. The paper is a draft of Chapter 4 of a book manuscript preliminarily entitled Democratic Respect: Populism, Polarization, and the Participant Attitude.