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Democracy : a reader

At a time when democracy appears to be universally acclaimed as the only acceptable form of government, it is all the more necessary to be clear about what democracy means. Democracy: A Reader provides a range of pivotal statements on this important topic from supporters and defenders as well as critics and skeptics.
Print Book, English, [2001]
Columbia University Press, New York, [2001]
xix, 571 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
9780231124805, 9780231124812, 0231124805, 0231124813
1049051767
Introduction: Democracy
Triumph or Crisis?
Pt. 1. Traditional Affirmations of Democracy. 1. Funeral Oration / Pericles. 2. The Politics / Aristotle. 3. The Discourses / Niccolo Machiavelli. 4. Leviathan / Thomas Hobbes. 5. The Social Contract / Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 6. The Federalist Papers / James Madison / (et al.). 7. Representative Government / John Stuart Mill. 8. Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville. 9. The Putney Debates. 10. The Rights of Man / Thomas Paine. 11. Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen / The National Assembly of France. 12. The Gettysburg Address / Abraham Lincoln. 13. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy / Joseph A. Schumpeter
Pt. 2. Key Concepts. 14. The Social Contract / Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 15. On the Common Saying: 'This May Be True in Theory but It Does not Apply in Practice' / Immanuel Kant. 16. The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns / Benjamin Constnat. 17. Two Concepts of Liberty / Isaiah Berlin. 18. In Defense of Anarchism / Robert Paul Wolff. 19. The Second Treatise of Government / John Locke. 20. The Social Contract / Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 21. A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality / Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 22. Equality / R. H. Tawney. 23. The Idea of Equality / Bernard Williams. 24. The Social Contract / Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 25. Speech at the Conclusion of the Poll, 3 November 1774 / Edmund Burke. 26. Essay on Government / James Mill. 27. The Concept of Representation / Hannah Fenichel Pitkin. 28. The Politics of Presence / Anne Phillips. 29. Justice and the Politics of Difference / Iris Marion Young. 30. The Illusion of Universal Suffrage / Michael Bakunin. 31. Parliamentary Isolation / Pierre-Joseph Proudhon. 32. The Social Contract / Jean-Jacques Rousseau. 33. A Paradox in the Theory of Democracy / Richard Wollheim. 34. Representative Government / John Stuart Mill. 35. Democracy in America / Alexis de Tocqueville. 36. The Theory of Democracy Revisited / Giovanni Sartori. 37. Polyarchy, Participation and Opposition / Robert A. Dahl. 38. The Politics / Aristotle. 39. Class, Citizenship and Social Development / T. H. Marshall. 40. Le Citoyen/La Citoyenne / W. H. Sewell, Jr. 41. The Return of the Citizen / Will Kymlicka and Wayne Norman
Pt. 3. Critiques of Democracy. 42. On the Jewish Question / Karl Marx. 43. The Civil War in France / Karl Marx. 44. The State and Revolution / Vladimir Ilich Lenin. 45. Marxism and Politics / R. Miliband. 46. Democratic Theory, Essays in Retrieval / C. B. Macpherson. 47. The Republic / Plato. 48. Reflections on the Revolution in France / Edmund Burke. 49. The Meaning of Conservatism / Roger Scruton. 50. The Doctrine of Fascism / Benito Mussolini. 51. The Concept of the Political / Carl Schmitt. 52. Economy and Society / Max Weber. 53. Political Parties / Robert Michels. 54. Anti-Elitism Revisited / Giovanni Sartori. 55. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy / Joseph A. Schumpeter. 56. Vindication of the Rights of Woman / Mary Wollstonecraft. 57. Women in Political Theory / Diana Coole. 58. Feminism and Democracy / Sheila Rowbotham. 59. Losing the Faith, Feminism and Democracy / Susan Mendus
Pt. 4. Contemporary Issues. 60. The Possibility of Social Choice / Amartya Sen. 61. Social Choice and Individual Values / Kenneth J. Arrow. 62. An Economic Theory of Democracy / Anthony Downs. 63. Political Participation as Rational Action / Brian Barry. 64. The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism / F. A. Hayek. 65. Capitalism and Freedom / Milton Friedman. 66. Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Democratization / David Beetham. 67. Arguments for a New Left / Hilary Wainwright. 68. Nationalism and Democracy / Ghia Nodia. 69. On Nationality / David Miller. 70. Two Concepts of the Nation / John Schwarzmantel. 71. The Dynamics of Democratic Exclusion / Charles Taylor. 72. Multicultural Citizenship / Will Kymlicka. 73. Justice and the Politics of Difference / Iris Marion Young. 74. The Racial Contract / Charles W. Mills. 75. Democracy as a Universal Value / Amartya Sen. 76. The Cultural Particularity of Liberal Democracy / Bhikhu Parekh. 77. The Idea of Freedom in Burma / J. Silverstein. 78. Chinese Democracy / Andrew J. Nathan. 79. More Participation, More Democracy? / Geraint Parry and George Moyser. 80. Strong Democracy / Benjamin R. Barber. 81. On Participation / Hanna Fenichel Pitkin and Sara M. Shumer. 82. A Day in the Life of a Socialist Citizen / Michael Walzer. 83. Voting: A Study of Opinion Formation in a Presidential Campaign / Bernard R. Berelson, Paul F. Lazarsfeld and William N. McPhee. 84. Participation and Democratic Theory / Carole Peteman. 85. Civil Society and Political Theory / Jean L. Cohen and Andrew Arato. 86. Bowling Alone / Robert D. Putnam. 87. Associative Principles and Democratic Reform / Paul Hirst. 88. New Developments in Deliberative Democracy / Ricardo Blaug. 89. On Legitimacy and Political Deliberation / B. Manin. 90. The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article / Jurgen Habermas. 91. The Dialogue of Justice: Toward a Self-Reflective Society / J. S. Fishkin. 92. Radical Democracy: Modern or Post-modern? / Chantal Mouffe. 93. Radical Democracy and Cultural Politics: What about Class? What about Political Power? / Barbara Epstein. 94. Thinking Collectively in the Public Domain / John Stewart. 95. Digital Democracy: An Introduction / Barry N. Hague and Brian D. Loader