Democracy : a Reader
- 2nd
- Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press Ltd. 2016:
- 607p. PB
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