Democracy: A Reader

Author:   Ricardo Blaug ,  John Schwarzmantel ,  Ricardo Blaug ,  John Schwarzmantel
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Edition:   second edition
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9780231174138


Pages:   640
Publication Date:   20 September 2016
Format:   Paperback
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Author:   Ricardo Blaug ,  John Schwarzmantel ,  Ricardo Blaug ,  John Schwarzmantel
Publisher:   Columbia University Press
Imprint:   Columbia University Press
Edition:   second edition
Dimensions:   Width: 17.10cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 24.40cm
Weight:   1.007kg
ISBN:  

9780231174138


ISBN 10:   0231174136
Pages:   640
Publication Date:   20 September 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Language:   English

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Preface to the Second Edition Acknowledgements Introduction: Democracy-Triumph or Crisis? Part I: Traditional Affirmations of Democracy Introduction 1. Pericles 2. Aristotle 3. Niccolo Machiavelli 4. Thomas Hobbes 5. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 6. James Madison (et al.) 7. John Stuart Mill 8. Alexis de Tocqueville 9. The Putney Debates 10. Thomas Paine 11. The National Assembly of France 12. Abraham Lincoln 13. Joseph A. Schumpeter Part II: Key Concepts Section 1: Freedom and Autonomy Introduction 14. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 15. Immanuel Kant 16. Benjamin Constant 17. Isaiah Berlin 18. Robert Paul Wolff Section 2: Equality Introduction 19. John Locke 20. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 21. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 22. R. H. Tawney 23. Bernard Williams Section 3: Representation Introduction 24. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 25. Edmund Burke 26. James Mill 27. Hanna Fenichel Pitkin 28. Anne Phillips 29. Iris Marion Young 30. Michael Bakunin 31. Pierre-Joseph Proudhon Section 4: Majority Rule Introduction 32. Jean-Jacques Rousseau 33. Richard Wollheim 34. John Stuart Mill 35. Alexis de Tocqueville 36. Giovanni Sartori Section 5: Citizenship Introduction 37. Aristotle 38. T. H. Marshall 39. Will Kymlicka and Wayne Norman 40. Bernard Crick Part III: Critiques of Democracy Section 6: Conservative, Elitist, and Authoritarian Critiques Introduction 41. Plato 42. Edmund Burke 43. Roger Scruton 44. Benito Mussolini 45. Carl Schmitt 46. Max Weber 47. Robert Michels 48. Giovanni Sartori 49. Joseph A. Schumpeter Section 7: Marxist and Socialist Critiques Introduction 50. Karl Marx 51. Karl Marx 52. Vladimir Ilich Lenin 53. Ralph Miliband 54. C. B. Macpherson Section 8: Feminist Critiques Introduction 55. Mary Wollstonecraft 56. Diana Coole 57. Sheila Rowbotham 58. Susan Mendus Part IV: Contemorary Issues Section 9: The Market Introduction 59. Friedrich Hayek 60. Allen Buchanan 61. Milton Friedman 62. David Beetham 63. Hilary Wainwright 64. John F. Weeks 65. Wendy Brown Section 10: Civil Society Introduction 66. Jean L. Cohen and Andrew Arato 67. Robert D. Putnam 68. Paul Hirst Section 11: Participation Introduction 69. Geraint Parry and George Moyser 70. Hanna Fenichel Pitkin and Sara M. Shumer 71. Carole Pateman 72. Tom DeLuca 73. Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson Section 12: The Internet Introduction 74. Merlyna Lim and Mark E. Kann 75. Manuel Castells 76. Evgeny Morozov Section 13: Nationalism Introduction 77. Ghia Nodia 78. David Miller 79. Erika Harris 80. Craig Calhoun Section 14: Cosmopolitan Democracy Introduction 81. Ulrich Beck 82. Luis Cabrera 83. Daniele Archibugi 84. John S. Dryzek 85. Jurgen Habermas 86. Norrie MacQueen Section 15: Religion Introduction 87. Asef Bayat 88. Robert W. Hefner 89. Michael Reder and Josef Schmidt 90. Fred Dallmayr 91. John Keane Section 16: Multiculturalism Introduction 92. Charles Taylor 93. Will Kymlicka 94. Iris Marion Young 95. Charles W. Mills Section 17: Democracy and Violence Introduction 96. Hannah Arendt 97. Michael Mann 98. John Schwarzmantel 99. Zygmunt Bauman Bibliography Index

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Praise for the first edition: Presenting key texts from Plato through Rousseau's Social Contract and Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address to modern contributions by Benjamin Barber and Milton Friedman, this is arguably the most comprehensive reader on the subject available in English. -- Political Studies A handy preliminary sweep through the most salient issues and arguments, and will undoubtedly prove useful to new students of democratic theory. -- Australian Journal of Political Science


Praise for the first edition: Presenting key texts from Plato through Rousseau's Social Contract and Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address to modern contributions by Benjamin Barber and Milton Friedman, this is arguably the most comprehensive reader on the subject available in English. -- Political Studies A handy preliminary sweep through the most salient issues and arguments, and will undoubtedly prove useful to new students of democratic theory. -- Australian Journal of Political Science


Praise for the first edition: ""Presenting key texts from Plato through Rousseau's ""Social Contract"" and Abraham Lincoln's ""Gettysburg Address"" to modern contributions by Benjamin Barber and Milton Friedman, this is arguably the most comprehensive reader on the subject available in English.""--""Political Studies """"A handy preliminary sweep through the most salient issues and arguments, and will undoubtedly prove useful to new students of democratic theory.""--""Australian Journal of Political Science""


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Ricardo Blaug is a reader in democracy and political theory at the University of Westminster. John Schwarzmantel is senior lecturer in politics at the University of Leeds.

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