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To begin this theory chapter, I discuss political legitimacy and legitimation—which provide a theoretical foundation for my analysis of both of the book’s research questions. Next, I outline the theoretical framework for each of my research questions. In particular, for the first question, I provide background on legitimation. For the second question, I provide background on the discourses upon which legitimations draw. I then discuss the types of discourses I investigate in this book: political values, normative conceptions of self-interest, and economic fairness. In particular, I discuss how economic fairness is understood in the moral economy literature, as well as in the neoliberalism literature. Next, I provide a brief overview of the relevant literature from political science and economics on direct democracy. I conclude by discussing the debate about direct versus representative democracy.

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    For a review of the self-interest and partisanship literature see the introduction.

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