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The Idea of democracy / edited by David Copp, Jean Hampton, and John E. Roemer.
- Title
- The Idea of democracy / edited by David Copp, Jean Hampton, and John E. Roemer.
- Publication
- Cambridge [England] ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1993.
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- Description
- x, 449 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- The essays in this book address a variety of foundational questions about democracy.
- Subject
- Democracy
- Note
- Paperback published, 1995.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Tocqueville and democracy / Stephen Holmes -- Tocqueville, commerce, and democracy / Debra Satz -- Making truth safe for democracy / David Estlund -- Could political truth be a hazard for democracy? / David Copp -- Democratic rights at national and workplace levels / Richard J. Arneson -- Justified to whom? / Robert Sugden -- Public choice versus democracy / Russell Hardin -- Social choice and democracy / Thomas Christiano -- Democracy and shifting preferences / Cass R. Sunstein -- Must preferences be respected in a democracy? / John Ferejohn -- The domain of the political and overlapping consensus / John Rawls -- Moral pluralism and political consensus / Joshua Cohen -- The moral commitments of liberalism / Jean Hampton -- Constituting democracy / David Gauthier -- On contractarian constitutional democracy / Christopher W. Morris -- The possibility of market socialism / John E. Roemer -- Alternative conceptions of feasibility / Michael S. McPherson -- A political and economic case for the democratic enterprise / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis -- Contested power / Karl Ove Moene -- Capitalist development and democracy : empirical research on the social origins of democracy / John D. Stephens -- Comments on John D. Stephens, "Capitalist development and democracy" / Pranab Bardhan.
- ISBN
- 0521432545 (hardback)
- 0521483263 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^92015797^
- OCLC
- 25833293
- SCSB-10323948
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library