Efnisyfirlit

• Cover
• 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
    • Group politics, governments and power
    • Politics, consensus and the distribution of power
    • Democracy, corporate capitalism and the state
    • Accumulation, legitimation and the restricted sphere of the political
    • The changing form of representative institutions
  • 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?
• Acknowledgements
• Bibliography
• Index
• End User License Agreement

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