Democracy

by Saward, Michael

• ISBN13: 9780745623504
• ISBN10: 0745623506
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2003-04-29
• Publisher: Polity

Summary

This new textbook invites readers to explore their own responses to debates about democracy's meaning. It provides tools for thinking actively about democracy as a practice, an ideal, and a site of contestation.Open-minded and written with genuine clarity for an undergraduate audience, Saward's book avoids providing easy answers to democracy's dilemmas. Instead, it offers to students the diverse approaches to democracy, showing how the key narratives of contemporary political life have been created and adapted.Working through a series of compelling real and hypothetical cases, twentieth-century narratives of democracy and their roots, and major new challenges such as globalization and environmentalism, the book makes the ideal starting point both for students already curious and those needing to be enticed and provoked. It concludes with an extraordinary snapshot and appraisal of the new theories of democracy that are making waves in the twenty-first century, and invites informed speculation on the shape of the democracy of the future. Democracy includes an extensive glossary of types of democracy, as well as a guide to further reading.

Author Biography

Michael Saward is Professor of Politics at the Open University.

Table of Contents

Defining and Justifying Democracy: the basic issues

J. Lively, 'The meaning of democracy', Democracy (Oxford: Blackwell 1975), pp. 8-51

R Hanson, 'Democracy', in T. Ball, J. Farr and R. Hanson, Political Innovation and Conceptual Change, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press), pp. 68-89

A. Sen, 'Democracy as a universal value', in Journal of Democracy 10, 3 (1999), pp. 3-17

Classical Themes: Theory and Practice

M. Finley, 'Leaders and followers', in Democracy Ancient and Modern (London: Hogarth Press 1985), pp. 3-37

R.S. Manglapus, 'Democracy and despotism: chicken and egg?' Will of the People (Westport: Greenwood Press, 1987), pp. 1-10

F. Schaffer, 'The Definition and Study of Democracy', in F. Schaffer: Democracy in Translation: Understanding politics in an unfamiliar culture (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press 1998), pp. 1-20

Q. Skinner, 'The Italian City Republics', in J. Dunn (ed), Democracy: the unfinished journey (Oxford: Oxford University Press 1992), pp. 57-70

C.B. MacPherson, 'Model I: Protective Democracy' in the Life and Times of Liberal Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press,1977), pp. 23-43

C.B. MacPherson 'Model II: Developmental Democracy' in the Life and Times of Liberal Democracy (Oxford: Oxford University Press,1977), pp. 44-76

R.W. Krouse, '"Classical" images of democracy in America: Madison and Tocqueville', in G. Duncan (ed), Democratic Theory and Practice (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983), pp. 58-78

M. Levin, 'The case against democracy' in M. Levin, The Spectre of Democracy, (NY: New York University Press, 1992), pp. 34-67

Liberal Democracy and its critics

Joseph A. Schumpeter, 'The classical doctrine for democracy' in J. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1942), pp. 250-68

Joseph A. Schumpeter, 'Another theory of democracy' in J. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy, (London: George Allen and Unwin, 1942), pp. 269-83

D. Beetham, 'Liberal democracy and the limits of democratization', in Political Studies, special issue, 40, (Oxford: Blackwell 1992), pp. 40-53

C. Lindblom, 'The market as prison', in Journal of Politics 44, (Oxford: Blackwell 1982), pp. 324-36

Ellen Meiksins Wood, 'Democracy: an idea of ambiguous ancestry', in J.D. Euben, J.R.Wallach and J. Ober (eds), Athenian Political thought and the reconstruction of American democracy (Ithaca: Cornell University Press 1994), pp. 59-80

I.M.Young, 'Polity and group difference:nbsp;A critique of the ideal of universal citizenship', in Ethics 99, 2, 1999, pp. 250-74

C. Mouffe, 'Deliberative democracy and agonistic pluralism', in Social Research 66, 3, (1999), pp. 745-58

P. Hirst, 'Associational democracy', in From Statism to Pluralism (London: UCL Press 1997), pp. 38-59

J. Cohen and J. Rogers, 'Democracy and associations', in Politics and Society, 20:4 (1992), pp. 393-472

Democratic systems, institutions and measures

R.A. Dahl, 'A theory of the democratic process', in Democracy and its Critics (New Haven: Yale University Press 1989), pp. 106-18

R.A. Dahl, 'The second democratic transformation' in Democracy and its Critics (New Haven: Yale University Press 1989), pp. 213-24

A.Lijphart, 'The Westminster model of Democracy' in Patterns of Democracy, (New Haven: Yale University Press 1999), pp. 9-30

A.Lijphart, 'The Consensus Model of Democracy' in Patterns of Democracy, (New Haven: Yale University Press 1999), pp. 31-47

D. Beetham, 'Democratic Crit<$$$>

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