Political science professor Julia Maskivker’s recent book, The Duty to Vote, has been featured in an article in The New Republic.
The article, written by editor-in-chief Win McCormack, distills the major points of Maskivker’s book—mainly that citizens have a moral duty to vote and vote from a place of informed judiciousness. Maskivker argues that the moral duty to vote comes from a more general duty to seek justice, defined as a society’s equitable provision to all its members of at least the minimum primary social goods necessary for a decent life.
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