Models of Democracy

Höfundur: David Held (Útgáfa: 3)
Models of Democracy

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In a succinct and far-reaching analysis, David Held provides an introduction to major theories of democracy from classical Greece to the present, along with a critical discussion of what democracy should mean today. This new edition has been extensively revised and updated to take into account significant transformations in world politics. A new chapter on deliberative democracy has been added, which focuses on how citizen participation can be increased in politics, and how that participation can become more informed.

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Útgefandi
Polity
ISBN
9781509517145
Print ISBN
9780745631479
Format
ePub
Útgáfa
3
Höfundar
David Held
Tungumál
English
Útgefið
2016-08-10
Prent takmörkun á líftíma
100
Prent takmörkun
10
Afritunar takmörkun
2

Kaflar

  • 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