Democracy: A Reader

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Ricardo Blaug, John J. Schwarzmantel
Columbia University Press, 2000 - 571 páginas

At a time when democracy appears to be universally acclaimed as the only acceptable form of government, it is all the more necessary to be clear about what democracy means. Democracy: A Reader provides a range of pivotal statements on this important topic from supporters and defenders as well as critics and skeptics.

 

Contenido

Section
1
TRADITIONAL AFFIRMATIONS OF DEMOCRACY Introduction
12
Pericles Funeral Oration
25
Aristotle The Politics
28
Niccolò Machiavelli The Discourses
34
Thomas Hobbes Leviathan
38
JeanJacques Rousseau The Social Contract
44
James Madison et al The Federalist Papers 7 John Stuart Mill Representative Government 8 Alexis de Tocqueville Democracy in America
68
53
274
Benito Mussolini The Doctrine of Fascism
278
Introduction
300
Diana Coole Women in Political Theory
313
Sheila Rowbotham Feminism and Democracy
321
59
324
Introduction
336
Kenneth J Arrow
342

The Putney Debates
78
Thomas Paine The Rights of
84
The National Assembly of France Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
88
Abraham Lincoln The Gettysburg Address
91
Joseph A Schumpeter Capitalism Socialism and Democracy
92
KEY CONCEPTS
97
Freedom and Autonomy
99
Introduction
100
JeanJacques Rousseau The Social Contract xi
102
1
104
Introduction
120
JeanJacques Rousseau The Social Contract
126
21
129
R H Tawney Equality
132
Introduction
144
25
150
Hannah Fenichel Pitkin
157
28
161
Iris Marion Young
165
PierreJoseph Proudhon
172
34
181
The Theory of Democracy Revisited
194
Introduction
206
38
208
W H Sewell Jr Le CitoyenLa Citoyenne
214
Will Kymlicka and Wayne Norman
220
Introduction
232
Karl Marx The Civil War in France
240
44
244
R Miliband Marxism and Politics
248
Introduction
260
Edmund Burke
269
Brian Barry Political Participation as Rational
348
Introduction
360
Milton Friedman Capitalism and Freedom
367
David Beetham
373
68
384
Two Concepts of the Nation
390
Introduction
396
Iris Marion Young
407
Introduction
418
Bhikhu Parekh The Cultural Particularity
424
J Silverstein The Idea of Freedom in Burma
430
78
435
Introduction
440
Benjamin R Barber Strong Democracy
447
Michael Walzer
458
84
469
Introduction
476
Robert D Putnam Bowling Alone
483
Introduction
492
B Manin On Legitimacy and Political
501
91
515
Introduction
524
92
526
Barbara Epstein
530
John Stewart
542
100
546
Barry N Hague and Brian D Loader
551
Bibliography
558
Index
565
102
567
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Ricardo Blaug,John J. Schwarzmantel
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TítuloDemocracy: A Reader
EditoresRicardo Blaug, John J. Schwarzmantel
EditorColumbia University Press, 2000
ISBN0231124805, 9780231124805
Largo571 páginas
  
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