Theories of Democracy,9780847697243

Theories of Democracy

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ISBN13: 9780847697243
ISBN10: 084769724X
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2001-08-01
Publisher(s): Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc
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Summary

Theories of Democracy builds on Robert Dahl's observation that there is no single theory of democracy; only theories. In this anthology, Ronald J. Terchek and Thomas C. Conte have brilliantly assembled the works of classical, modern, and contemporary commentators to illustrate the deep and diverse roots of the democratic ideal, as well as to provide materials for thinking about the way some contemporary theories build on different traditions of democratic theorizing.

Author Biography

Ronald J. Terchek is professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the author of Republican Paradoxes and Liberal Anxieties: Retrieving Neglected Fragments of Political Theory and Gandhi: Struggling for Autonomy. Thomas C. Conte is an assistant professor at Gettysburg College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments and Credits ix
Introduction xiii
Note to the Reader xvii
Part One: Liberalism and Republicanism
The Evolving Liberal Tradition
3(48)
The Second Treatise on Government
7(6)
John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
13(3)
John Locke
Common Sense
16(6)
Thomas Paine
``Federalist No. 10''
22(4)
James Madison
Democracy in America
26(8)
Alexis de Tocqueville
On Liberty
34(8)
John Stuart Mill
Considerations on Representative Government
42(4)
John Stuart Mill
A Theory of Justice
46(5)
Johnrawls
The Civic Republican Tradition and Communitarians
51(40)
Politics
55(7)
Aristotle
The Discourses
62(5)
Niccolo Machiavelli
The Social Contract
67(7)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
``A Modell of Christian Charity''
74(4)
John Winthrop
``The Necessity of Education in a Republican Government''
78(5)
Horace Mann
``Community Properly Understood: A Defence of 'Democratic Communitarianism''
83(8)
Robert Bellah
Part Two: Contemporary Theories of Democracy
Protective Democracy
91(32)
The Political Order of a Free People
92(20)
Friedrich A
``The Role of Government in a Free Society''
112(11)
Milton Friedman
Pluralist Democracy
123(18)
The Process of Government
125(6)
Authur Bentley
Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy
131(10)
Robert Dahl
Performance Democracy
141(24)
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
143(11)
Joseph A Schumpeter
``An Economic Theory of Political Action in a Democracy''
154(11)
Anthony Downs
Participatory Democracy
165(16)
``Democratic Ends Need Democratic Methods for Their Realization''
167(1)
John Dewey
The Public and Its Problems
168(3)
John Dewey
Strong Democracy
171(10)
Benjamin Barber
Part Three: Critiques of Contemporary Democratic Theory and Practice
The Realist and Neorealist Critiques
181(20)
Economy and Society
182(6)
Max Weber
``The Future of Democracy''
188(13)
Norberto Bobbio
Postmodernist Critiques
201(34)
Power/Knowledge
203(12)
Michel Foucault
``Democracy and Normalization''
215(8)
William Connolly
``Radical Democracy: Modern or Postmodern?''
223(12)
Chantal Mouffe
Discourse and Democracy
235(16)
``Three Normative Models of Democracy''
236(7)
Jurgen Habermas
``The Liberal/Democratic Divide''
243(8)
Sheldon Wolin
Pushing for Inclusion
251(28)
Engendering Democracy
252(12)
Anne Phillips
Race Matters
264(4)
Cornel West
Justice and the Politics of Difference
268(11)
Iris Marion Young
Voices Outside the West
279(36)
``Speech at Muir College Economic Society''
282(2)
Mahatma Gandhi
Hind Swaraj
284(5)
Mahatma Gandhi
No Future without Forgiveness
289(7)
Desmond Tutu
``In Quest of Democracy''
296(7)
Aung San Suu Kyi
``Conditionality, Human Rights, and Democracy''
303(5)
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
``Ten Commandments of Democracy in Haiti''
308(7)
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Bibliography 315(10)
Index 325(6)
About the Editors 331

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