Theories of Democracy

by Terchek, Ronald J.; Conte, Thomas C.

• ISBN13: 9780847697243
• ISBN10: 084769724X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-01
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Pub Inc

Summary

Theories of Democracy builds on Robert Dahl's observation that there is no single theory of democracy; only theories. In this anthology, Ronald J. Terchek and Thomas C. Conte have brilliantly assembled the works of classical, modern, and contemporary commentators to illustrate the deep and diverse roots of the democratic ideal, as well as to provide materials for thinking about the way some contemporary theories build on different traditions of democratic theorizing.

Author Biography

Ronald J. Terchek is professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland, College Park, and the author of Republican Paradoxes and Liberal Anxieties: Retrieving Neglected Fragments of Political Theory and Gandhi: Struggling for Autonomy. Thomas C. Conte is an assistant professor at Gettysburg College.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments and Credits	ix
Introduction	xiii
Note to the Reader	xvii
Part One: Liberalism and Republicanism
The Evolving Liberal Tradition	3	(48)
The Second Treatise on Government	7	(6)
John Locke
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding	13	(3)
John Locke
Common Sense	16	(6)
Thomas Paine
``Federalist No. 10''	22	(4)
James Madison
Democracy in America	26	(8)
Alexis de Tocqueville
On Liberty	34	(8)
John Stuart Mill
Considerations on Representative Government	42	(4)
John Stuart Mill
A Theory of Justice	46	(5)
Johnrawls
The Civic Republican Tradition and Communitarians	51	(40)
Politics	55	(7)
Aristotle
The Discourses	62	(5)
Niccolo Machiavelli
The Social Contract	67	(7)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
``A Modell of Christian Charity''	74	(4)
John Winthrop
``The Necessity of Education in a Republican Government''	78	(5)
Horace Mann
``Community Properly Understood: A Defence of 'Democratic Communitarianism''	83	(8)
Robert Bellah
Part Two: Contemporary Theories of Democracy
Protective Democracy	91	(32)
The Political Order of a Free People	92	(20)
Friedrich A
``The Role of Government in a Free Society''	112	(11)
Milton Friedman
Pluralist Democracy	123	(18)
The Process of Government	125	(6)
Authur Bentley
Dilemmas of Pluralist Democracy	131	(10)
Robert Dahl
Performance Democracy	141	(24)
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy	143	(11)
Joseph A Schumpeter
``An Economic Theory of Political Action in a Democracy''	154	(11)
Anthony Downs
Participatory Democracy	165	(16)
``Democratic Ends Need Democratic Methods for Their Realization''	167	(1)
John Dewey
The Public and Its Problems	168	(3)
John Dewey
Strong Democracy	171	(10)
Benjamin Barber
Part Three: Critiques of Contemporary Democratic Theory and Practice
The Realist and Neorealist Critiques	181	(20)
Economy and Society	182	(6)
Max Weber
``The Future of Democracy''	188	(13)
Norberto Bobbio
Postmodernist Critiques	201	(34)
Power/Knowledge	203	(12)
Michel Foucault
``Democracy and Normalization''	215	(8)
William Connolly
``Radical Democracy: Modern or Postmodern?''	223	(12)
Chantal Mouffe
Discourse and Democracy	235	(16)
``Three Normative Models of Democracy''	236	(7)
Jurgen Habermas
``The Liberal/Democratic Divide''	243	(8)
Sheldon Wolin
Pushing for Inclusion	251	(28)
Engendering Democracy	252	(12)
Anne Phillips
Race Matters	264	(4)
Cornel West
Justice and the Politics of Difference	268	(11)
Iris Marion Young
Voices Outside the West	279	(36)
``Speech at Muir College Economic Society''	282	(2)
Mahatma Gandhi
Hind Swaraj	284	(5)
Mahatma Gandhi
No Future without Forgiveness	289	(7)
Desmond Tutu
``In Quest of Democracy''	296	(7)
Aung San Suu Kyi
``Conditionality, Human Rights, and Democracy''	303	(5)
Adolfo Perez Esquivel
``Ten Commandments of Democracy in Haiti''	308	(7)
Jean-Bertrand Aristide
Bibliography	315	(10)
Index	325	(6)
About the Editors	331