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<p><p>liberal Democracy And Its Critics Examines The Contribution Of Eleven Contemporary Political Social Theorists To Understanding Democracy Today. The Theorists Are Prominent In Political And Philosophical Debates In The 1990s, For Example Between Neo-liberalism (hayek) And Social Liberalism (rawls), And Between Liberalism And Republicanism (arendt), Communitarianism (taylor And Walzer), 'anti-political Politics' (havel) And Feminism (pateman And Young). The Book Also Explores How The Philosophical Defence Of Universalism (habermas) Or Critiques Of It (foucault And Rorty) Impinge On Assessments Of Liberal Democracy. <br> <br> The Eleven Theorists Reflect Varying Approaches To Key Issues In Democratic Thought Since 1945&#58; Liberal Constitutionalism Or Popular Sovereignty, Elitism Or Participation And Parliamentary Or Council Democracy. Many Also Engage With More Recent Themes Such As Civil Society, The Politics Of Difference, Deliberative Democracy, And The Nature Of Cosmopolitan Democracy. Some Focus On The Justification Of Democracy, Others Make Specific Institutional Proposals. <br> <br> The Chapters Set The Thinkers Within Their Intellectual And Political Contexts And Explo

Author

April Carter and Geoffrey Stokes

Publisher

Cambridge: Polity Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780745619200

Subjects

Political Science, History, Science

Updated

2026-03-24