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Klappentext Together the essays will provide comprehensive review of the past condition and future prospects for democratic theory in practice. Zusammenfassung In past decades! democratic theory has been on the defensive! largely as a result of the disappointments of democratic practice. The essays in this volume reflect critically on the theory in the light of those failures and with the corresponding assumption of an indissoluble connection between theory and practice. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of contributors; Part I. Backgrounds to the Arguments: 1. Introduction Graeme Duncan; 2. The limits of democratic theory Paul E. Corcoran; 3. The historical study of 'democracy' Iain Hampshermonk; Part II. Classical Theories: 4. Mill and Rousseau: utility and rights Alan Ryan; 5. 'Classical' images of democracy in America: Madison and Tocqueville Richard W. Krouse; 6. Marxism and democratic theory Michael Levin; 7. Consensus and community: the theory of African one-party democracy Paul Nursery-Bray; Part III. Revisions and Critiques: 8. Democracy: American style Michael Margolis; 9. The competitive model of democracy David Miller; 10. Marcuse and autonomy Vincent Geoghegan; 11. Functional representation and democratic politics: towards a corporatist democracy Alan Cawson; Part IV. Possible Futures: 12. Human nature and radical democratic theory Graeme Duncan; 13. Feminism and democracy Carole Pateman; 14. Returning the social to democracy David Harris; 15. Bureaucracy and democracy Dennis F. Thompson; 16. Beginning at the end of democratic theory Henry S. Kariel; Notes; Index.
