Models of Democracy, Third Edition by Held, David -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Table of Contents Dedication Title Copyright Figures and Tables Preface to the Third Edition Introduction PART ONE: CLASSIC MODELS

1 Classical Democracy: Athens

Political ideals and aims Institutional features The exclusivity of ancient democracy The critics

2 Republicanism: Liberty, Self-Government and the Active Citizen

The eclipse and re-emergence of homo politicus The reforging of republicanism Republicanism, elective government and popular sovereignty From civic life to civic glory The republic and the general will The public and the private

3 The Development of Liberal Democracy: For and Against the State

Power and sovereignty Citizenship and the constitutional state Separation of powers The problem of factions Accountability and markets Liberty and the development of democracy The dangers of despotic power and an overgrown state Representative government The subordination of women Competing conceptions of the ‘ends of government’

4 Direct Democracy and the End of Politics

Class and class conflict History as evolution and the development of capitalism Two theories of the state The end of politics Competing conceptions of Marxism

PART TWO: VARIANTS FROM THE TWENTIETH CENTURY

5 Competitive Elitism and the Technocratic Vision

Classes, power and conflict Bureaucracy, parliaments and nation-states Competitive elitist democracy Liberal democracy at the crossroads The last vestige of democracy? Democracy, capitalism and socialism ‘Classical’ v. modern democracy A technocratic vision

6 Pluralism, Corporate Capitalism and the State

7 From Postwar Stability to Political Crisis: The Polarization of Political Ideals

A legitimate democratic order or a repressive regime? Overloaded state or legitimation crisis? Crisis theories: an assessment Law, liberty and democracy Participation, liberty and democracy

8 Democracy after Soviet Communism

The historical backdrop The triumph of economic and political liberalism? The renewed necessity of Marxism and democracy from ‘below’?

9 Deliberative Democracy and the Defence of the Public Realm

Reason and participation The limits of democratic theory The aims of deliberative democracy What is sound public reasoning? Impartialism and its critics Institutions of deliberative democracy Value pluralism and democracy

PART THREE: WHAT SHOULD DEMOCRACY MEAN TODAY?

10 Democratic Autonomy

The appeal of democracy The principle of autonomy Enacting the principle The heritage of classic and twentieth-century democratic theory Democracy: a double-sided process Democratic autonomy: compatibilities and incompatibilities

11 Democracy, the Nation-State and the Global System

Democratic legitimacy and borders Regional and global flows: old and new Sovereignty, autonomy and disjunctures Rethinking democracy for a more global age: the cosmopolitan model A utopian project?

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