Preface
Introduction by Robert B. Talisse
Part I: Classic Sources
1. Pericles, Funeral Oration
2. Plato, Crito
3. Plato, Republic
4. Aristotle, Politics
5. Mencius, Mencius,
6. Niccolò Machiavelli, Discourses
7. Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
8. Baruch Spinoza, Theologico-Political Treatise
9. John Locke, Second Treatise of Government
10. John Locke, Letter Concerning Toleration
11. Rousseau, Of the Social Contract
12. Edmund Burke, Speech to the Electors of Bristol
13. The Declaration of Independence
14. The Constitution of the United States
15. The Federalist Papers
16. The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen
17. Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy in America
18. Karl Marx, Estranged Labor
19. Frederick Douglass, What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July
20. Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address
21. Abraham Lincoln, Second Inaugural Address
22. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty
23. John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government
24. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, “The Solitude of Self”
25. W. E. B. Dubois, “Of the Ruling of Men”
26. John Dewey, “Democracy”
27. Joseph Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy
28. John Rawls, “The Idea of Public Reason Revisited”
Part II: Contemporary Issues
A. Democracy’s Value
29. Thomas Christiano, “The Authority of Democracy,” Journal of Political Philosophy 12.3(2004)
30. Richard Arneson, “Democracy is Not Intrinsically Just,” from Justice and Democracy: Essays for Brian Barry, ed. Keith Dowding, Robert Goodin, and Carole Pateman (Cambridge University Press, 2004)
31. Elizabeth Anderson, “Democracy: Instrumental Vs. Non-Instrumental Value,” from Contemporary Debates in Political Philosophy (Christman and Christiano, eds.)
B. Deliberation
32. Joshua Cohen, “Deliberation and Democratic Legitimacy,” from The Good Polity, ed. Alan Hamlin and Phillip Petit (Blackwell, 1989)
33. Seyla Benhabib, “Toward a Deliberative Model of Democratic Legitimacy,” from Democracy and Difference, ed. Benhabib (Princeton, 1995)
34. David Estlund, “The Epistemic Dimension of Democratic Authority,” The Modern Schoolman, vol. LXXIV, no. 4 (1997).
C. Voting
35. Helene Landemore, “Deliberation, Cognitive Diversity, and Democratic Inclusiveness: An Epistemic Argument for the Random Selection of Representatives,” Synthese 190.7(2013)
36. Claudio Lopez-Guerra, “The Enfranchisement Lottery,” Politics, Philosophy, & Economics 10.2(2010).
37. Jason Brennan, “Polluting The Polls: When Citizens Should Not Vote” Australasian Journal of Philosophy 87.4 (2009).
D. Challenges and Problems
38. Iris Marion Young, “Activist Challenges to Deliberative Democracy,” Political Theory 29.5(2001): 670-690.
39. Robert B. Talisse “Polarization and Democratic Citizenship”
40. Dennis Thompson, “Representing Future Generations,” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy 13.1 (2010): 17-37