Format:
Online-Ressource (196 p.)
ISBN:
9780691123967
Content:
What should we expect from democracy, and how likely is it that democracies will live up to those expectations? In The State of Democratic Theory, Ian Shapiro offers a critical assessment of contemporary answers to these questions, lays out his distinctive alternative, and explores its implications for policy and political action. Some accounts of democracy's purposes focus on aggregating preferences; others deal with collective deliberation in search of the common good. Shapiro reveals the shortcomings of both, arguing instead that democracy should be geared toward minimizing domination thr
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Description based upon print version of record
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Contents; Preface; Introduction; CHAPTER ONE: Aggregation, Deliberation, and the Common Good; CHAPTER TWO: Deliberation against Domination?; CHAPTER THREE: Power and Democratic Competition; CHAPTER FOUR: Getting and Keeping Democracy; CHAPTER FIVE: Democracy and Distribution; CHAPTER SIX: Reconsidering the State of Democratic Theory; Bibliography; Index;
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781400825899
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780691123967
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe The State of Democratic Theory
Language:
English
Keywords:
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