Democracy's Edges

by Edited by Ian Shapiro , Casiano Hacker-Cordón

• ISBN13: 9780521643566
• ISBN10: 0521643562
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-10-13
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

Democracy's flexibility, its commitment to equality of representation, and its recognition of the legitimacy of opposition are all positive features of political institutions. But democracy fits uneasily with many other political values and is in many respects less than equal to the demands it confronts. In these two free-standing volumes some of the world's most prominent political theorists and social scientists present original discussions of these urgent issues. Democracy's Value deals with the nature and value of democracy, particularly the tensions between it and such goods as justice, equality, efficiency, and freedom. Democracy's Edges analyzes one of democracy's most enduring problems: how to establish the boundaries of democratic polities democratically.

Table of Contents

List of contributors	xi
Preface	xiii
Outer edges and inner edges	1	(16)
Ian Shapiro
Casiano Hacker-Cordon
Part I. Outer edges	17	(146)
Can international organizations be democratic? A skeptic's view	19	(18)
Robert A. Dahl
A comment on Dahl's skepticism	37	(4)
James Tobin
The democratic order, economic globalization, and ecological restrictions--on the relation of material and formal democracy	41	(22)
Elmar Altvater
Democracy and collective bads	63	(21)
Russell Hardin
The transformation of political community: rethinking democracy in the context of globalization	84	(28)
David Held
Citizenship in an era of globalization: commentary on Held	112	(15)
Will Kymlicka
A comment on Held's cosmopolitanism	127	(7)
Alexander Wendt
Feminist social criticism and the international movement for women's rights as human rights	134	(29)
Brooke A. Ackerly
Susan Moller Okin
Part II. Inner edges	163	(132)
Democratic liberty and the tyrannies of place	165	(28)
Douglas Rae
Democracy and the politics of recognition	193	(17)
Elizabeth Kiss
Group aspirations and democratic politics	210	(12)
Ian Shapiro
American democracy and the New Christian Right: a critique of apolitical liberalism	222	(43)
Jeffrey C. Isaac
Matthew F. Filner
Jason C. Bivins
Between liberalism and a hard place	265	(8)
Courtney Jung
Rationality, democracy, and leaky boundaries: vertical vs horizontal modularity	273	(22)
Susan L. Hurley
Index	295