reasoning and social choice to attend to judgements about justice. Yet this critical role for democracy is undermined in Sen …'s elaboration in the absence of requirements of justice that would protect democracy's fair and effective functioning in a manner …

acknowledging positionality is consistent with affirming the universal value of democracy. This article builds on Sen's work by … proposing an analysis of democracy as a set of institutions that aims to intelligently utilize positional information for shared … ends. This epistemological analysis of democracy offers a way to understand the rationale for reserving political offices …

and exploiting the politics of class division. The African experience with liberal democracy indicates that Sen’s theory … cultural idioms in Africa that run counter to liberal conceptions of emancipation. Achieving democracy and freedom in Africa is …