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Explores how republican political thought can make a constructive and distinctive contribution to our understanding of democracy and the challenges it faces.
Sommario
Introduction. Republicanizing democracy, democratizing the republic Geneviève Rousselière and Yiftah Elazar; Part I. Republican Democracy and the Common Good: 1. The general will, the common good, and a democracy of standards Philip Pettit; Part II. Republicanism and Historical Challenges of Democratic Politics: 2. Of demagogues and populists: on the relevance of Roman republicanism to democracy Daniel Kapust; 3. Republicanism and democracy: the tyranny of the majority in eighteenth century political debate Annelien de Dijn; Part III. Non-Domination as a Democratic Ideal: 4. Democratic dependency: a feminist critique of non-domination as independence Lida Maxwell; 5. Being under the power of others Niko Kolodny; Part IV. Democratizing the Republic, Republicanizing Democracy: 6. Republicanism and democracy revisited Frank Lovett; 7. The new ochlophobia? Populism, majority rule and prospects for democratic republicanism John P. McCormick; 8. Democracy and republicanism: a difficult partnership Nadia Urbinati; Part V. Republican Democracy in the Workplace and the Market: 9. Liberty and democratic insurgency: the republican case for the right to strike Alex Gourevitch; 10. Workplace governance and republican theory Elizabeth Anderson; 11. Republicanism and markets Robert S. Taylor; Part VI. Republican Democracy Beyond the State: 12. A European republic of sovereign states: sovereignty, republicanism, and the EU Richard Bellamy; 13. Horizontalism, public assembly, and the politics of republican democracy Stuart White.
Info autore
Yiftah Elazar is Lecturer in Political Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has written on Jeremy Bentham, Adam Ferguson, and Adam Smith, and is working on a book on the revolutionary republicanism of Richard Price.Geneviève Rousselière is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Duke University, North Carolina. She has published articles on Rousseau, Constant, and Kant. She is finishing a book on French republicanism.
Riassunto
Democracies are in crisis. In this volume, leading scholars explore how republican political thought can make a constructive and distinctive contribution to our understanding of democracy and the challenges it faces. For researchers and students in political theory, political philosophy and the history of ideas.
