ABSTRACT
One need not accept the concept of democracy as equality in order to enquire into the link between the democratic regime and various egalitarian outcomes. Even if one does not accept the identity between democracy and equality, it would still be true that a democracy could not survive or flourish in an aristocratic society building on social inequalities institutionalized in law. Democracy requires a minimum of equality under the law. The key question is, though, whether democracy also promotes, or should promote, egalitarian outcomes over and beyond the mere legal requirement of one person, one vote.
