Democracy

by Weale, Albert

• ISBN13: 9780333948750
• ISBN10: 0333948750
• Edition: 2nd
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-15
• Publisher: Red Globe Pr

Summary

This wide-ranging text identifies and assesses the main conceptions of democracy from participationist to elitist. It proceeds to consider in detail a range of key issues in democratic theory in relation to which these conceptions can be distinguished. The second edition has been revised throughout and includes entirely new chapters on deliberative democracy and on self-determination and issues of governance at an international level in particular those associated with notions of cosmopolitan democracy.

Author Biography

ALBERT WEALE is Professor of Government, University of Essex.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
The Theoretical Challenges of Democracy	p. 1
Democratic principles and normative methods	p. 6
The circumstances of politics	p. 12
The definition of democracy	p. 18
Forms of Democratic Government	p. 24
Institutions, behaviour, social structure	p. 26
An institutional typology	p. 30
Evaluating forms of government	p. 46
The Justification of Democracy	p. 49
The protective case for democracy	p. 51
From adjudication to democracy	p. 56
Democracy and political equality	p. 62
Fallibilism	p. 66
Common interests and political ideals	p. 68
Democracy and consent	p. 72
Deliberation, Consensus and Political Equality	p. 77
Consensus and deliberation	p. 83
Deliberation and fairness	p. 90
Institutional dimensions	p. 98
Participation as Democracy, Participation in Democracy	p. 101
Participation as democracy: autonomy	p. 106
Participation as democracy: moral development	p. 115
Participation in democracy	p. 119
Why not populism?	p. 125
From Conceptions of Representation to Systems of Representation	p. 129
The concept of representation	p. 132
The lottery alternative	p. 136
Responsiveness and representation	p. 140
Back to social characteristics?	p. 145
A system of representation?	p. 152
Aggregation, Unanimity and Majority Rule	p. 155
The principle of unanimity	p. 158
Majority rule: the axiomatic defence	p. 160
The spatial defence	p. 168
Two dimensions with no Condorcet-winner	p. 173
Empirical aspects	p. 179
Democracy, Rights and Constitutionalism	p. 181
The constitutional basis for popular government	p. 184
Rights-based constitutionalism?	p. 189
Political rights	p. 193
Democracy and civil rights	p. 195
Democracy and property rights	p. 200
Courts or legislatures?	p. 202
The Boundaries of Inclusion	p. 207
The problem of qualification	p. 210
The problem of partitioning	p. 218
Extension beyond persons?	p. 224
International Relations and Democratic Ideals	p. 227
Dropping one of the claims?	p. 233
Democratic values and international concerns	p. 244
Epilogue: The Democratic Reform of Democracy	p. 249
References	p. 254
Index	p. 266
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