Also included is a chapter on the morality of vote buying and why Brennan argues it is justifiable under certain circumstances.

However Flanders admits that the contrarian nature of the writing serves to make the book more entertaining to read.

He also states that Brennan's ideas are not very different from John Stuart Mill’s analysis of the moral duties of voters in his work Considerations on Representative Government.

[4] Mill's argument, in section ten of the 1861 essay Considerations on Representative Government, is that an extra set of votes should be apportioned to the highly educated in order that they may ensure the safety and well being of the country.

[5] Both Josh Rothman with The Boston Globe and Alan Haworth with The Philosophers' Magazine praised the book for its new take on democratic engagement.