Republican democracy has authorial and editorial dimensions addressing different threats.

Evidence

On the other hand, civic republicanism considers that well-functioning forms of democracy represent “a search procedure for identifying and empowering common avowable interests” (Pettit 2001). This mostly takes the form of what Pettit (2000) calls the authorial dimension of democracy, where people represent the indirect authors of policies. But in turn this cannot be done unless the citizens “by and large respect the law, both in letter and spirit, and the shared institutions and practices of the republic generally” (Lovett 2015). It is the worry about the tyranny of the majority that pushes us towards the editorial dimension of democracy, towards “measures designed to increase protection against false positives and to try to ensure that only the common interests of the people dictate what the government does” (Pettit 2000, 127). — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic, 7

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distinguishes Pettit’s authorial vs editorial dimensions of civic-republican democracy as two different functions.
• XREF: Connects to Pettit’s broader republicanism vs liberalism debates in contemporary political theory. — connects to: Different types of threat may drive authoritarianism differently — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 833; Authoritarianism and conservatism arise from needs to manage uncertainty and threat — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2468
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Adelin-Costin Dumitru, Forging the Resistive Republic: Social…, 7

Broader Connections

• Different types of threat may drive authoritarianism differently #expands (0.75) — John T. Jost and Jim Sidanius, Political Psychology, 833
• Authoritarianism and conservatism arise from needs to manage uncertainty and threat #expands (0.72) — , Rudman, Laurie A - On the Nature of…, 2468