Political Legitimacy, the Egalitarian Ch
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DEAN J. MACHIN
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Article
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2012
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John Wiley and Sons
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English
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## abstract This article argues against the claim that democracy is a necessary condition of political legitimacy. Instead, I propose a weaker set of conditions. First, I explain the case for the necessity of democracy. This is that only democracy can address the βegalitarian challengeβ, i.e. βif w