Democracy's Edges

ISBN-13: 9780521643894 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 312 str.

Ian Shapiro; Casiano Hacker-Cordon; Russell Hardin

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'This is an excellent collection by leading political theorists on the prospects for democracy given the challenges to the standard boundaries of democratic societies - the challenge to 'outer edges' by processes of globalisation and the challenge to 'inner edges' by processes of pluralisation … I strongly recommend this book to anyone interested in the future of democracy.' James Tully, University of Victoria

Spis treści

1. Introduction Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordón; Part I: 2. Can international organizations be democratic? A skeptic's view Robert A. Dahl; 3. A comment on Dahl's skepticism James Tobin; 4. The democratic order, economic globalization and ecological restrictions - on the relation of material and formal democracy Elman Altvater; 5. Democracy and collective bads Russell Hardin; 6. The transformation of political community: rethinking democracy in the context of globalization David Held; 7. Citizenship in an era of globalization Will Kymlicka; 8. Comment on Held's cosmopolitanism Alexander Wendt; 9. Feminist social criticism and the international movement for women's rights as human rights Brooke A. Ackerly and Susan Moller-Okin; Part II: 10. Democratic liberty of the tyrannies of place Douglas Rae; 11. Democracy and the politics of recognition Elizabeth Kiss; 12. Group aspirations and democratic politics Ian Shapiro; 13. American democracy and the new Christian right: a critique of apolitical liberalism Jeffrey C. Isaac, Matthew Filner and Jason Bivins; 13. Between liberalism and a hard place Courtney Jung; Rationality: democracy and leaky boundaries: vertical v. horizontal modularity Susan Hurley.