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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Framing the Thesis
1. Can Democracy Be Overdone?
1.1 Democracy’s Value
1.2 Too Much of a Good Thing?
1.3 Too Much Democracy?
1.4 Is the Thesis Conservative?
1.5 But Isn’t Everything Politics?
1.6 Oligarchy in Disguise?
1.7 Moving Forward
2. Democracy’s Expanding Reach
2.1 Scope, Site, and Reach
2.2 Democracy as a Social Ideal
2.3 Capturing the Ideal: The Classical Approach
2.4 The Need for Public Engagement
2.5 Expanded Democracy in Practice
2.6 Overdoing Democracy as an Internal Problem
II. Diagnosis
3. The Political Saturation of Social Space
3.1 Preview of the Diagnostic Argument
3.2 Expanding the Local
3.3 Sorting: Physical, Social, and Political
3.4 The Infiltration of Politics
3.5 Political Saturation
4. The Problem of Polarization
4.1 Two Concepts of Polarization: The Rough Distinction
4.2 Political Polarization
4.3 Belief Polarization
4.4 Degree, Content, and Commitment
4.5 The Mechanism of Belief Polarization
4.6 Belief Polarization with a Humean Face
4.7 The Social Impact of Belief Polarization
4.8 The Diagnostic Argument Completed
III. Prescription
5. Civic Friendship
5.1 The Better Democracy Response
5.2 The Circumstances of Politics
5.3 Civic Friends and Civic Enmity
5.4 Correlate Social Goods
5.5 Breaking the Dynamic
5.6 Is Civic Friendship Possible?
6. The Place of Politics
Notes
Works Cited
Index
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