Democracy's Values / Edition 1

by Ian Shapiro, Casiano Hacker-Cordón

Overview

Democracy's flexibility, its commitment to equality of representation, and its recognition of the legitimacy of opposition are all positive features of political institutions. But democracy fits uneasily with many other political values and is in many respects less than equal to the demands it confronts. In these two free-standing volumes some of the world's most prominent political theorists and social scientists present original discussions of these urgent issues. Democracy's Value deals with the nature and value of democracy, particularly the tensions between it and such goods as justice, equality, efficiency, and freedom. Democracy's Edges analyzes one of democracy's most enduring problems: how to establish the boundaries of democratic polities democratically.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521643887
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	08/19/1999
Series:	Contemporary Political Theory
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	216
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.60(d)

Table of Contents

1. Promises and disappointments: reconsidering democracy's value Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordón; Part I. Minimal Democracy: 2. Minimalist conception of democracy: a defense Adam Przeworski; 3. Does democracy engender justice? John Roemer; 4. Democracy and other goods Partha Dasgupta and Eric Maskin; Part II. Beyond Minimalism: 5. Democracy and development: a complex relationship Pranab Bardhan; 6. Death and taxes: extractive equality and the development of democratic institutions Margaret Levi; 7. Democracy and development John Dunn; 8. State, civil society, and social justice Iris Marion Young; 9. Republican freedom and contestatory democratisation Phillip Pettit; 10. Contestatory democracy versus real freedom for all Philippe van Parijs.

What People are Saying About This

Brian Barry

The editor's are to be congratulated on having assembled a first rate collection of sharply-argued essays that ask what we can realistically expect of democracy.

Editorial Reviews

"Democracy's Value and Democracy's Edges are companion volumes.... Judged individually, the overall quality of the essays in both of these books is very high. ...illuminating...clearly written." Ethics

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