“What Will You Tell Them When They Ask You?” Reflexive Accountability in a Democratic Regime
Political Theory: An International Journal of Political Philosophy
Published online on April 15, 2026
Abstract
Political Theory, Ahead of Print.
In a democracy, ordinary citizens enjoy formal unaccountability, a condition that characterized classical Athens and that persists in a modified form in modern representative democracies. Popular unaccountability is both constitutive of democratic rule ...
In a democracy, ordinary citizens enjoy formal unaccountability, a condition that characterized classical Athens and that persists in a modified form in modern representative democracies. Popular unaccountability is both constitutive of democratic rule ...