Ideas That Matter Democracy, Justice, Rights

by Satz, Debra; Lever, Annabelle

• ISBN13: 9780190904982
• ISBN10: 0190904984
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2019-07-09
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Debra Satz is Vernon R. & Lysbeth Warren Anderson Dean of the School of Humanities & Sciences at Stanford; she is a political philosopher whose work is at the intersection of philosophy and economics, and she is editor-in-chief of Philosophy and Public Affairs.

Annabelle Lever is Professor of Political Science at Sciences Po, Paris.

Table of Contents

Introduction Debra Satz

Part I. Reinvigorating Democracy
1. Saving Democracy from Ourselves: Democracy as a Tragedy of the Commons, Archon Fung
2. Collective Reason or Individual Liberty: Deliberative Democracy and the Protection of Individual Rights, Assaf Sharon
3. Rousseau and the Meaning of Popular Sovereignty, Stuart White

Part II. Confronting Injustice
4. Without the Loving Strains of Commitment, Christopher Lebron
5. Deliberation and University Governance: The Case of Brown University's Diversity and Inclusion Plan
Richard Locke
6. Accountability in an Era of Celebrity, Martha Nussbaum

Part III. Principles for an Interdependent World
7. Exploitation in International Trade, Helena De Bres
8. Sovereignty and Complex Interdependence: Some Surprising Implications of their Compatibility
Charles Sabel
9. Toward a Political Philosophy of Human Rights, Annabelle Lever

Afterword Joshua Cohen
Publications of Joshua Cohen
Index