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Manipulating Manipulation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2009

Peter Morriss
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In a recent article, Alan Ware argues the following:

(1) Manipulation is important to liberals because governments and law courts are justified in overriding some person's wants, when determining his interests, only when his wants have been manipulated (pp. 175, 177). (I shall call this person ‘B’.)

(2) Manipulation only occurs when some specified person (A) is both morally and causally responsible for the change in B's wants (pp. 165–6 and sec. III).

Therefore

(3) Liberals can override B's wants, when determining his interests, only when B's wants have been determined by some specified A who is both morally and causally responsible for the change in B's wants (pp. 176–7).

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British Journal of Political Science , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , January 1982 , pp. 117 - 119
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1982

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References

1 Ware, Alan, ‘The Concept of Manipulation: Its Relation to Democracy and Power’, British Journal of Political Science, XI (1981), 163–81.CrossRefGoogle Scholar All page numbers in the text refer to this article.