Research Catalog

Title

Democracy / edited by Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred D. Miller, Jr., and Jeffrey Paul.

Publication

Cambridge, England ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2000.

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Additional Authors

• Paul, Ellen Frankel
• Miller, Fred Dycus, 1944-
• Paul, Jeffrey

Description

xiii, 323 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

The essays in this volume explore questions about democracy that are relevant to political philosophy and political theory. Some examine the difficulties involved in determining and carrying out the will of the people; some address questions relating to the kinds of influence citizens can or should have over their representatives. Other essays analyze democratic institutions, while still others examine the relationship between democracy and value pluralism, or consider the suitability of democracy as a form of government in non-Western societies.

Subject

Democracy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The very idea of popular sovereignty / Christopher W. Morris -- Quasi-rights / Josiah Ober -- Is there a duty to vote? / Loren E. Lomasky and Geoffrey Brennan -- Postmodern liberalism and the expressive function of law / N. Scott Arnold -- Democratic epistemology and accountability / Russell Hardin -- Political quality / David Estlund -- Why deliberative democracy is different / Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson -- The Institutions of deliberative democracy / William Nelson -- Democracy as a telos / Kenneth Minogue -- Radical democracy, personal freedom, and the transformative potential of politics / Steven Wall -- Democracy and value pluralism / William A. Galston -- The problem of Russian democracy / Dmitry Shlapentokh.

ISBN

0521786207

LCCN

^^^99051590^

OCLC

• 42823627
• SCSB-10061437

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library