Democracy : a Reader

Preface to the Second Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Democracy – Triumph or Crisis?
Part I: Traditional Affirmations of Democracy
Introduction

1 Pericles, Funeral Oration
2 Aristotle, The Politics
3 Niccolò Machiavelli, The Discourses
4 Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
5 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
6 James Madison (et al.), The Federalist Papers
7 John Stuart Mill, Representative Government
8 Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
9 The Putney Debates
10 Thomas Paine, Rights of Man
11 The National Assembly of France, Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
12 Abraham Lincoln, The Gettysburg Address
13 Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Part II: Key Concepts
Section 1: Freedom and Autonomy

Introduction

14 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
15 Immanuel Kant, On the Common Saying: ‘This May Be True in Theory but it Does not Apply in Practice’
16 Benjamin Constant, The Liberty of the Ancients Compared with that of the Moderns
17 Isaiah Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty
18 Robert Paul Wolff, In Defense of Anarchism

Section 2: Equality

Introduction

19 John Locke, The Second Treatise of Government
20 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
21 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A Discourse on the Origin of Inequality
22 R. H. Tawney, Equality
23 Bernard Williams, The Idea of Equality

Section 3: Representation

Introduction

24 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
25 Edmund Burke, Speech at the Conclusion of the Poll, 3 November 1774
26 James Mill, Essay on Government
27 Hanna Fenichel Pitkin, The Concept of Representation
28 Anne Phillips, The Politics of Presence
29 Iris Marion Young, Justice and the Politics of Difference
30 Michael Bakunin, The Illusion of Universal Suffrage
31 Pierre-Joseph Proudhon, Parliamentary Isolation

Section 4: Majority Rule

Introduction

32 Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
33 Richard Wollheim, A Paradox in the Theory of Democracy
34 John Stuart Mill, Representative Government
35 Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
36 Giovanni Sartori, The Theory of Democracy Revisited

Section 5: Citizenship

Introduction

37 Aristotle, The Politics
38 T. H. Marshall, Class, Citizenship and Social Development
39 Will Kymlicka and Wayne Norman, The Return of the Citizen
40 Bernard Crick, Civic Republicanism and Citizenship: The Challenge for Today
Part III: Critiques of Democracy

Section 6: Conservative, Elitist and Authoritarian Critiques

Introduction

41 Plato, The Republic
42 Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
43 Roger Scruton, The Meaning of Conservatism
44 Benito Mussolini, The Doctrine of Fascism
45 Carl Schmitt, The Concept of the Political
46 Max Weber, Economy and Society
47 Robert Michels, Political Parties
48 Giovanni Sartori, Anti-Elitism Revisited
49 Joseph A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy

Section 7: Marxist and Socialist Critiques Introduction

50 Karl Marx, On the Jewish Question
51 Karl Marx, The Civil War in France
52 Vladimir Ilich Lenin, The State and Revolution
53 Ralph Miliband, Marxism and Politics
54 C. B. Macpherson, Democratic Theory, Essays in Retrieval

Section 8: Feminist Critiques

Introduction

55 Mary Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman
56 Diana Coole, Women in Political Theory
57 Sheila Rowbotham, Feminism and Democracy
58 Susan Mendus, Losing the Faith: Feminism and Democracy

Part IV: Contemporary Issues

Section 9: The Market Introduction

59 Friedrich Hayek, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism
60 Allen Buchanan, Ethics, Efficiency, and the Market
61 Milton Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom
62 David Beetham, Liberal Democracy and the Limits of Democratization
63 Hilary Wainwright, Arguments for a New Left
64 John F. Weeks, Wealth Accumulates and Democracy Decays
65 Wendy Brown, American Nightmare: Neoliberalism, Neoconservatism, and De-Democratization

Section 10: Civil Society

Introduction

66 Jean L. Cohen and Andrew Arato, Civil Society and Political Theory
67 Robert D. Putnam, Bowling Alone
68 Paul Hirst, Associative Principles and Democratic Reform

Section 11: Participation

Introduction

69 Geraint Parry and George Moyser, More Participation, More Democracy?
70 Hanna Fenichel Pitkin and Sara M. Shumer, On Participation
71 Carole Pateman, Participation and Democratic Theory
72 Tom DeLuca, The Two Faces of Political Apathy
73 Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson, What Deliberative Democracy Means

Section 12: The Internet

Introduction

74 Merlyna Lim and Mark E. Kann, Politics: Deliberation, Mobilization, and Networked Practices of Agitation
75 Manuel Castells, Networks of Outrage and Hope: Social Movements in the Internet Age
76 Evgeny Morozov, The Net Delusion: How Not to Liberate the World

Section 13: Nationalism

Introduction

77 Ghia Nodia, Nationalism and Democracy
78 David Miller, Citizenship and National Identity
79 Erika Harris, ‘The People’, Identity and Democracy
80 Craig Calhoun, Nationalism and Democracy

Section 14: Cosmopolitan Democracy

Introduction 460

81 Ulrich Beck, Methodological Cosmopolitanism
82 Luis Cabrera, The Practice of Global Citizenship
83 Daniele Archibugi, World Citizenship
84 John S. Dryzek, Global Democracy and Its Setbacks
85 Jürgen Habermas, The Post-National Constellation and the Future of Democracy
86 Norrie MacQueen, The Prospect of ‘Post-Westphalian’ Intervention

Section 15: Religion

Introduction

87 Asef Bayat, Islam and Democracy: What is the Real Question?
88 Robert W. Hefner, Public Islam and the Problem of Democratization
89 Michael Reder and Josef Schmidt, Habermas and Religion
90 Fred Dallmayr, Whither Democracy? Religion, Politics and Islam
91 John Keane, The Life and Death of Democracy

Section 16: Multiculturalism

Introduction

92 Charles Taylor, The Dynamics of Democratic Exclusion
93 Will Kymlicka, Multicultural Citizenship
94 Iris Marion Young, Justice and the Politics ofDifference
95 Charles W. Mills, The Racial Contract

Section 17: Democracy and Violence

Introduction

96 Hannah Arendt, On Violence
97 Michael Mann, Two Versions of ‘We the People’
98 John Schwarzmantel, New Forms of Violence
99 Zygmunt Bauman, Global Frontier-land

Bibliography

Index