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Index
Acknowledgments and Credits
Introduction
Note to the Reader
I LIBERALISM AND REPUBLICANISM
1. The Evolving Liberal Tradition
John Locke, Selections from The Second Treatise on Government (1688)
John Locke, Selection from An Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689)
Thomas Paine, Selections from Common Sense (1776)
James Madison, “Federalist No. 10” (1787)
Alexis de Tocqueville, Selections from Democracy in America (1835 and 1840)
John Stuart Mill, Selections from On Liberty (1859)
John Stuart Mill, Selections from Considerations on Representative Government (1861)
John Rawls, Selection from A Theory of Justice (1971)
2. The Civic Republican Tradition and Communitarians
Aristotle, Selections from Politics (335–323 b.c.)
Niccolò Machiavelli, Selections from The Discourses (1531)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Selections from The Social Contract (1762)
John Winthrop, Selection from “A Modell of Christian Charity” (1630)
Horace Mann, Selection from “The Necessity of Education in a Republican Government” (1839)
Robert Bellah, “Community Properly Understood: A Defense of ‘Democratic Communitarianism’” (1988)
II CONTEMPORARY THEORIES OF DEMOCRACY
3. Protective Democracy
Friedrich A. Hayek, Selections from The Political Order of a Free People (1979)
Milton Friedman, “The Role of Government in a Free Society” (1962)
4. Pluralist Democracy
Athur Bentley, Selections from The Process of Government (1908)
Robert Dahl, Selections from Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy (1982)
5. Performance Democracy
Joseph A. Schumpeter, Selections from Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy (1942)
Anthony Downs, Selections from “An Economic Theory of Political Action in a Democracy” (1957)
6. Participatory Democracy
John Dewey, “Democratic Ends Need Democratic Methods for Their Realization” (1939)
John Dewey, Selection from The Public and Its Problems (1927)
Benjamin Barber, Selection from Strong Democracy (1984)
III CRITIQUES OF CONTEMPORARY DEMOCRATIC THEORY AND PRACTICE
7. The Realist and Neorealist Critiques
Max Weber, Selections from Economy and Society (1922)
Norberto Bobbio, Selection from “The Future of Democracy” (1984)
8. Postmodernist Critiques
Michel Foucault, Selection from Power/Knowledge (1972)
William Connolly, “Democracy and Normalization” (1987)
Chantal Mouffe, “Radical Democracy: Modern or Postmodern?” (1988)
9. Discourse and Democracy
Jürgen Habermas, “Three Normative Models of Democracy” (1966)
Sheldon Wolin, Selections from “The Liberal/Democratic Divide” (1996)
10. Pushing for Inclusion
Anne Phillips, Selection from Engendering Democracy (1991)
Cornel West, Selection from Race Matters (1993)
Iris Marion Young, Selections from Justice and the Politics of Difference (1990)
11. Voices Outside the West
Mahatma Gandhi, Selection from “Speech at Muir College Economic Society” (1916)
Mahatma Gandhi, Selections from Hind Swaraj (1909)
Desmond Tutu, Selections from No Future without Forgiveness (1999)
Aung San Suu Kyi, “In Quest of Democracy” (1991)
Adolfo Pérez Esquivel, “Conditionality, Human Rights, and Democracy” (1996)
Jean-Bertrand Aristide, Selection from “Ten Commandments of Democracy in Haiti” (1991)
Bibliography
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