When the 'will of the people' conflicts with the 'good of the people': a problem in Political Philosophy

博士课题将对民主政治理论作出贡献。它的目的有两个：首先，以英国退欧为起点，重新审视民主的价值及其与其他相关价值——尤其是经济福祉和自由——的关系。在这个分析的基础上，第二，发展一种规范理论的解释，当民主决策和生活在民主国家的人们的共同利益之间出现冲突时，民主国家应该通过这种方式和手段来解决冲突。要考虑的方法将包括从可以帮助避免仅仅由于错误或误判而导致的决定的预期措施（例如，通过确保选民为政治参与的目的受过良好教育），通过使用重复全民公决，到“战斗民主”理论家考虑的更激进的可能性，例如暂停民主结果。本项目这一部分的目的是确定民主国家可获得的资源和措施的范围，并确定可以采取不同办法的各种情况。

The doctoral project will make a contribution to democratic political theory. Its aim is twifold: first, to use the Brexit case as a starting point for re-examining the value of democracy and its relationship with other, related values-economic wellbeing and liberties in particular. And on the basis of this analysis, second to develop a normative-theoretical account of the ways and means by which democracies ought to address conflicts when they arise between democratic decisions and the common good of those living within democracies. Methods to be considered will range from anticipatory measures that can help avoid decisions that result simply from error to misjudgement ( for instance, by ensuring that voters are well-educated for the purposes of political participation) through the use of repeat referenda to the more radical possibilities considered by theorists of 'militant democracy', such as the suspension of democratic outcomes. The aim of this part of the project is to identifiy the range of resources and measures available to democracies and to identify the sorts of case in which different approaches might be justified.