The Public Interest and Political Theory

Ethics ◽  
1959 ◽  
Vol 69 (4) ◽  
pp. 277-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
William D. Zarecor
Keyword(s):  
Political Theory ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
The Public

Democratic Theory and the Public Interest: Condorcet and Rousseau Revisited

1989 ◽  
Vol 83 (4) ◽  
pp. 1317-1340 ◽  
Author(s):  
David M. Estlund ◽  
Jeremy Waldron ◽  
Bernard Grofman ◽  
Scott L. Feld
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Democratic Theory ◽  
Collective Consciousness ◽  
General Will ◽  
The Public ◽  
Condorcet’S Jury Theorem ◽  
Marquis De Condorcet ◽  
Jury Theorem

Bernard Grofman and Scott Feld argued in the June 1988 issue of this Review that Jean-Jacques Rousseau's contributions to democratic political theory could be illuminated by invoking the theorizing of one of his eighteenth-century contemporaries, the Marquis de Condorcet, about individual and collective preferences or judgments. Grofman and Feld's claims about collective consciousness and the efficacy of the public interest provoke debate. One focus of discourse lies in the application of Condorcet's jury theorem to Rousseau's theory of the general will. In this controversy David M. Estlund and Jeremy Waldron in turn raise a variety of issues of theory and interpretation; Grofman and Feld then extend their argument, and propose clarifications.

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