Democracy: A Reader

Ricardo Blaug

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Democracy

A Reader

Ricardo Blaug

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2016

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Democracy is an essential collection of source texts by major historical figures on the value of democracy, key concepts and practices, theoretical perspectives, and contemporary challenges. The volume includes reflections on democracy by Machiavelli, Hobbes, Madison, Mill, Lincoln, and Paine. It features Rousseau and Kant on freedom and autonomy; Locke on equality; Burke and Bakunin on representation; Wollheim and Tocqueville on majority rule; and Crick on citizenship. Conservative, Marxist, socialist, and feminist critiques are followed by new sections on the market, civil society, participation, the Internet, nationalism, religion, multiculturalism, cosmopolitan democracy, and violence. Perfect for course use, the book provides an unparalleled introduction to standard articulations of democracy and its multiple manifestations in our interconnected, conflict-ridden world.

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Ricardo Blaug is a reader in democracy and political theory at the University of Westminster.

John Schwarzmantel is senior lecturer in politics at the University of Leeds.

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Social Sciences Political Science Political Science, other

Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Preface to the Second Edition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	xiii
Acknowledgements Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	xvii
Introduction: Democracy – Triumph or Crisis? Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Part One. Traditional Affirmations of Democracy
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	21
1. Funeral Oration Pericles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	25
2. The Politics Aristotle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	28
3. The Discourses Niccolò Machiavelli Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	33
4. Leviathan Thomas Hobbes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	37
5. The Social Contract Jean-Jacques Rousseau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	43
6. The Federalist Papers James Madison Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	52
7. Representative Government John Stuart Mill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	58
8. Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	67
9. The Putney Debates Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	77
10. Rights of Man Thomas Paine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	83
11. Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen The National Assembly of France Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	87
12. The Gettysburg Address Abraham Lincoln Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	90
13. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy Joseph A. Schumpeter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	91
Part Two. Key Concepts
Section 1: Freedom and Autonomy
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	98
14. The Social Contract Jean-Jacques Rousseau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	100
15. On the Common Saying: ‘This May Be True in Theory but it Does not Apply in Practice’ Immanuel Kant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	102
16. The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns Benjamin Constant Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	108
17. Two Concepts of Liberty Isaiah Berlin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	111
18. In Defense of Anarchism Robert Paul Wolff Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	115
Section 2: Equality
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	118
19. The Second Treatise of Government John Locke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	120
20. The Social Contract Jean-Jacques Rousseau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	124
21. A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Jean-Jacques Rousseau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	127
22. Equality R. H. Tawney Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	130
23. The Idea of Equality Bernard Williams Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	135
Section 3: Representation
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	142
24. The Social Contract Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	145
25. Speech at the Conclusion of the Poll, 3 November 1774 Edmund Burke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	148
26. Essay on Government James Mill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	151
27. The Concept of Representation Hanna Fenichel Pitkin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	155
28. The Politics of Presence Anne Phillips Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	159
29. Justice and the Politics of Difference Iris Marion Young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	163
30. The Illusion of Universal Suffrage Michael Bakunin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	167
31. Parliamentary Isolation Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	170
Section 4: Majority Rule
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	172
32. The Social Contract Jean-Jacques Rousseau Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	174
33. A Paradox in the Theory of Democracy Richard Wollheim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	177
34. Representative Government John Stuart Mill Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	179
35. Democracy in America Alexis de Tocqueville Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	183
36. The Theory of Democracy Revisited Giovanni Sartori Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	192
Section 5: Citizenship
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	198
37. The Politics Aristotle Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	200
38. Class, Citizenship and Social Development T. H. Marshall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	203
39. The Return of the Citizen Will Kymlicka and Wayne Norman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	206
40. Civic Republicanism and Citizenship: The Challenge for Today Bernard Crick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	214
Part Three. Critiques of Democracy
Section 6: Conservative, Elitist and Authoritarian Critiques
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	226
41. The Republic Plato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	229
42. Reflections on the Revolution in France Edmund Burke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	234
43. The Meaning of Conservatism Roger Scruton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	239
44. The Doctrine of Fascism Benito Mussolini Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	243
45. The Concept of the Political Carl Schmitt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	245
46. Economy and Society Max Weber Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	247
47. Political Parties Robert Michels Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	252
48. Anti-Elitism Revisited Giovanni Sartori Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	255
49. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy Joseph A. Schumpeter Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	259
Section 7: Marxist and Socialist Critiques
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	266
50. On the Jewish Question Karl Marx Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	268
51. The Civil War in France Karl Marx Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	274
52. The State and Revolution Vladimir Ilich Lenin Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	278
53. Marxism and Politics Ralph Miliband Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	282
54. Democratic Theory, Essays in Retrieval C. B. Macpherson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	287
Section 8: Feminist Critiques
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	294
55. Vindication of the Rights of Woman Mary Wollstonecraft Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	297
56. Women in Political Theory Diana Coole Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	307
57. Feminism and Democracy Sheila Rowbotham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	315
58. Losing the Faith: Feminism and Democracy Susan Mendus Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	318
Part Four. Contemporary Issues
Section 9: The Market
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	328
59. The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism Friedrich Hayek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	330
60. Ethics, Efficiency, and the Market Allen Buchanan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	335
61. Capitalism and Freedom Milton Friedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	344
62. Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Democratization David Beetham Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	350
63. Arguments for a New Left Hilary Wainwright Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	354
64. Wealth Accumulates and Democracy Decays John F. Weeks Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	357
65. American Nightmare: Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism, and De-Democratization Wendy Brown Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	361
Section 10: Civil Society
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	368
66. Civil Society and Political Theory Jean L. Cohen and Andrew Arato Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	370
67. Bowling Alone Robert D. Putnam Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	375
68. Associative Principles and Democratic Reform Paul Hirst Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	378
Section 11: Participation
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	384
69. More Participation, More Democracy? Geraint Parry and George Moyser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	386
70. On Participation Hanna Fenichel Pitkin and Sara M. Shumer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	391
71. Participation and Democratic Theory Carole Pateman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	397
72. The Two Faces of Political Apathy Tom DeLuca Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	403
73. What Deliberative Democracy Means Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	415
Section 12: The Internet
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	426
74. Politics: Deliberation, Mobilization, and Networked Practices of Agitation Merlyna Lim and Mark E. Kann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	428
75. Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age Manuel Castells Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	433
76. The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World Evgeny Morozov Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	436
Section 13: Nationalism
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	442
77.Nationalism and Democracy Ghia Nodia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	444
78. Citizenship and National Identity David Miller Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	447
79. ‘The People’, Identity and Democracy Erika Harris Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	450
80. Nationalism and Democracy Craig Calhoun Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	454
Section 14: Cosmopolitan Democracy
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	460
81. Methodological Cosmopolitanism Ulrich Beck Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	463
82. The Practice of Global Citizenship Luis Cabrera Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	468
83. World Citizenship Daniele Archibugi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	473
84. Global Democracy and Its Setbacks John S. Dryzek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	478
85. The Post- National Constellation and the Future of Democracy Jürgen Habermas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	483
86. The Prospect of ‘Post-Westphalian’ Intervention Norrie MacQueen Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	491
Section 15: Religion
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	500
87. Islam and Democracy: What is the Real Question? Asef Bayat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	502
88. Public Islam and the Problem of Democratization Robert W. Hefner Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	516
89. Habermas and Religion Michael Reder and Josef Schmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	522
90. Whither Democracy? Religion, Politics and Islam Fred Dallmayr Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	525
91. The Life and Death of Democracy John Keane Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	536
Section 16: Multiculturalism
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	542
92. The Dynamics of Democratic Exclusion Charles Taylor Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	544
93. Multicultural Citizenship Will Kymlicka Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	547
94. Justice and the Politics of Difference Iris Marion Young Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	553
95. The Racial Contract Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	558
Section 17: Democracy and Violence
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	564
96. On Violence Hannah Arendt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	566
97. Two Versions of ‘We the People’ Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	575
98. New Forms of Violence John Schwarzmantel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	584
99. Global Frontier- land Zygmunt Bauman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	591
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	596
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	603

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eBook published on:

September 20, 2016

eBook ISBN:

9780231539500

Edition:

2nd edition

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Main content:

640

https://doi.org/10.7312/blau17412

eBook ISBN: 9780231539500

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