Summary Of The Revised Democracy

The article “The Revised Democratic Threshold Principle and the Distribution of Educational Resources

”, By Ryan Cox provides a theoretical framework for understanding the connection between democracy and how the education system plays a role in that of a democratic society. This article opens with the introduction section speaking about the distribution of government spending and its relationship between public and private schooling, one of the main points made in the opening paragraph of the introduction section is that the overall focus of government spending is based on the taxpayers “right” to choose how their children are educated and talks about the efficiency and the viability of the economics involved in generating a skilled workforce

to secure our economic future.

The main propose of this article is to outline the nature, condition and substantive outcomes of democracy, the author Ryan Cox portrays this by providing a factual and in-depth look at the importance that education plays in a modern democratic societies, sometimes these roles are overlooked because of the obvious nature of them, but if we take a look we will notice that education and democracy go together hand and hand. Using the works of Amy Gutmann, Cox makes the argument that a democratic society is required to distribute educational resources according to what he calls the Revised Democratic Threshold Principle. I especially enjoyed the example given by Cox where he asked the reader to consider sally and Anne who were primary school students, Sally is from a nurturing home and has a eagerness for learning, Anne comes from poverty and is socially disadvantaged, if we assume that because if Anne’s home setting she displays difficulties learning at school. The outcome of this example shows that Anne will need more resources then Sally will need to meet the democratic threshold principle.

In the conclusion section of this article cox briefly dose an examination of the different ways Revised Democratic Threshold Principles can be unsuccessful at being met and how it affects the democratic decision-making, one example of these consequences is the amount of resources needed for successfully reach the democratic threshold