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Participation in and Responsibility for State Injustices
This paper discusses the criteria for acceptably holding citizens partly responsible
for wrongs their state or its agents commit. Some proposed criteria are not, it argues,
appropriately sensitive to the particular coercive relation between state and citizen. Others,
which are, conceive of it wrongly and fail to match our judgments about a range of
cases. Alternative criteria of breadth and joint authorship, built around Christopher Kutz's
account of participation, better match these considered judgments as well as linking them
to a more powerful theoretical framework. Understanding citizens' responsibility will
mean understanding these criteria more fully.
Keywords: participation; citizens’ responsibility; injustice; the state; democracy; authoritarianism;
secrecy
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