Working democratic procedures require an underlying democratic ethos rather than standing alone

Evidence

Procedures always involve substantial ethical commitments. For that reason they cannot work properly if they are not supported by a specific form of ethos. — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 315

Categorization

• XREF: Directly fuels the reader’s test: if democracy requires a democratic ethos, then a pluralist ‘we’ needs constitutive ethical commitments, not merely neutral ground rules. — connects to: Democratic allegiance is secured through practices of persuasion, not arguments for universal validity — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 302; Habermas’s procedural discourse theory fails by denying that democracy needs an ethos — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 316; Voting alone does not constitute the full work of democracy — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black: How Race Still…, 616 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Democratic legitimacy depends on citizens’ internalized commitment that imposed systems cannot replace #corroborates (0.90) — Jürgen Habermas, A New Structural Transformation of the…, 74
• Allegiance to democratic institutions rests on practices forming citizens, not rational justification #corroborates (0.88) — Chantal Mouffe, The Democratic Paradox, 432
• Democracy must be deliberately cultivated rather than assumed natural. #corroborates (0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 16
• Voting alone does not constitute the full work of democracy #corroborates (0.78) — Eddie S. Glaude Jr., Democracy in Black, 616
• Substantive democracy required deliberately raising the political value of devalued Untouchables #exemplifies (0.75)
• Democratic legitimacy requires officials to explain and avow fair process, not just follow it #qualifies (0.72) — Russell Muirhead and Nancy L. Rosenblum, A Lot of People Are Saying, 353