Democracy's Values

ISBN-13: 9780521643887 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 216 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

'What is democracy good for? Even if it did no more than ensure the orderly and peaceful transfer of power from one government to another, that would be enough to make it attractive in comparison to the alternatives. But many people have hoped for more. They would like to think that there can (with the right institutions) be some reliable connection between democracy and other values such as freedom, social justice, or prosperity. The editors are to be congratulated on having assembled a first rate collection of sharply-argued essays that ask what we can realistically expect of democracy.' Brian Barry, Columbia University

Spis treści

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.