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Democracy's Values
Author:Sterling Professor of Political Science and Henry R Luce Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies Ian Shapiro,Ian Shapiro,Casiano Hacker-Cordón,Russell Hardin
Published on 1999-08-19 by Cambridge University Press

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Democracy has been a flawed hegemony since the fall of communism. Its flexibility, its commitment to equality of representation, and its recognition of the legitimacy of opposition politics are all positive features for political institutions. But democracy has many deficiencies: it is all too easily held hostage by powerful interests; it often fails to advance social justice; and it does not cope well with a number of features of the political landscape, such as political identities, boundary disputes, and environmental crises. Although democracy is valuable it fits uneasily with other political values and is in many respects less than equal to the demands it confronts. In this volume (and its companion Democracy's Edges) prominent political theorists and social scientists present original discussions of such central issues. Democracy's Values deals with the nature and value of democracy, particularly the tensions between it and such goods as justice, equality, efficiency, and freedom.

Author -Sterling Professor of Political Science and Henry R Luce Director of the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies Ian Shapiro,Ian Shapiro,Casiano Hacker-Cordón,Russell Hardin
Format BOOK | 201 Pages
Published 1999-08-19 by Cambridge University Press
Language en
CategoryPolitical Science
ISBN10 0521643880
ISBN13 9780521643887

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