[PDF] Debating Democracys Discontent eBook

Author : Anita L. Allen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 17,68 MB
Release : 1998-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0191522368

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In this timely and provocative volume, some of the world's leading political and constitutional theorists come together to debate Michael Sandel's celebrated thesis that the United States is in the the grip of a flawed public philosophy - "procedural liberalism". Beginning with an original stage-setting introduction by Ronald Beiner, and ending with a reply by Michael Sandel, Sandel's liberal and feminist critics square off with his communitarian and civic republican sympathizers in a lively and wide-ranging discussion spanning constitutional law, culture, and political economy. Practical, topical issues of immigration, gay marriage, federalism, adoption, abortion, corporate speech, militias, and economic disparity are debated alongside theories of civic virtue, citizenship, identity, and community. Not only does this volume provide the most comprehensive and insightful critique of Sandel's Democracy's Discontent to date - it also makes a very significant, substantive contribution to contemporary political and legal philosophy in its own right. It will prove essential reading for all those interested in the future of American politics, law, and public philosophy.

Author : Michael J. Sandel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 19,8 MB
Release : 1998-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674197459

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On American democracy

Author : Michael J. Sandel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 25,6 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 0674270711

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Twenty-five years after his prescient Democracy's Discontent, Michael Sandel updates his classic work for our more fractious age. He shows how, since the 1990s, Democrats and Republicans embraced a market faith that led to the toxic politics of our time. To rescue democracy, he argues, we must reimagine the economy and revitalize the civic project.

Author : Michael J. Sandel
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 24,72 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780674197442

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What ails democracy in America today, and what can be done about it? This work traces the political predicament to a defect in the public philosophy by which we live. The author identifies the dominant public philosophy of the 1990s and finds it flawed.

Author : Michael J. Sandel
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 46,56 MB
Release : 2012-04-24
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1429942584

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Should we pay children to read books or to get good grades? Should we allow corporations to pay for the right to pollute the atmosphere? Is it ethical to pay people to test risky new drugs or to donate their organs? What about hiring mercenaries to fight our wars? Auctioning admission to elite universities? Selling citizenship to immigrants willing to pay? In What Money Can't Buy, Michael J. Sandel takes on one of the biggest ethical questions of our time: Is there something wrong with a world in which everything is for sale? If so, how can we prevent market values from reaching into spheres of life where they don't belong? What are the moral limits of markets? In recent decades, market values have crowded out nonmarket norms in almost every aspect of life—medicine, education, government, law, art, sports, even family life and personal relations. Without quite realizing it, Sandel argues, we have drifted from having a market economy to being a market society. Is this where we want to be?In his New York Times bestseller Justice, Sandel showed himself to be a master at illuminating, with clarity and verve, the hard moral questions we confront in our everyday lives. Now, in What Money Can't Buy, he provokes an essential discussion that we, in our market-driven age, need to have: What is the proper role of markets in a democratic society—and how can we protect the moral and civic goods that markets don't honor and that money can't buy?

Author : Michael J. Sandel
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 35,44 MB
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674744020

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In this book, Michael Sandel takes up some of the hotly contested moral and political issues of our time, including affirmative action, assisted suicide, abortion, gay rights, stem cell research, the meaning of toleration and civility, the gap between rich and poor, the role of markets, and the place of religion in public life. He argues that the most prominent ideals in our political life--individual rights and freedom of choice--do not by themselves provide an adequate ethic for a democratic society. Sandel calls for a politics that gives greater emphasis to citizenship, community, and civic virtue, and that grapples more directly with questions of the good life. Liberals often worry that inviting moral and religious argument into the public sphere runs the risk of intolerance and coercion. These essays respond to that concern by showing that substantive moral discourse is not at odds with progressive public purposes, and that a pluralist society need not shrink from engaging the moral and religious convictions that its citizens bring to public life.

Author : Bruce Miroff
Publisher :
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 24,42 MB
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN :

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This reader offers two readings per chapter organised in a debate-style format, representing opposing viewpoints. The straightforward, thought-provoking presentation facilitates classroom discussion. Highlights of this fourth edition include: - New! Chapter 4, Civil Society, contains essays by Robert Putnam, Bowling Alone: The Collapse of American Community, and William A. Galston and Peter Levine, America's Civic Condition: A Glance at the Evidence. - New! Chapter 8, Public Opinion: The American People After September 11, includes two new essays: Age of Conflict, by David Brooks and Which America Will We Be Now? by Bill Moyers. - New! Chapter 10, Political Parties and Elections: What Was the 2000 Presidential Contest About? includes articles by David Brooks, One Nation, Slightly Divisible, and Lani Gunier, What We Must Overcome. - New! Chapter 12, Local Democracy, contains essays for and against suburban sprawl and governance by Gregg Easterbrook and Todd Swanstrom. - New! Chapter 14, The Presidency: How Much Difference Does the Individual Make? features new essays by Fred Greenstein, Lessons from the Modern Presidency, and Stephen Skowronek, The Changing Political Structures of Presidential Leadership. - New! Chapter 18, U.S. Foreign Policy: What Should It Be After September 11?, includes articles by Charles Krauthammer, The Real New World Order, and Benjamin R. Barber, On Terrorism and the New Democratic Realism.

Author : Jason Brennan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 2021
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0197540813

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"Around the world, faith in democracy is falling. Partisanship and mutual distrust are increasing. What, if anything, should we do about these problems? In this accessible work, leading philosophers Jason Brennan and Hélène Landemore debate whether the solution lies in having less democracy or more. Brennan argues that democracy has systematic flaws, and that democracy does not and cannot work the way most of us commonly assume. He argues the best solution is to limit democracy's scope and to experiment with certain voting systems that can overcome democracy's problems. Landemore argues that democracy's virtues, which stem, at an ideal level, from its inclusiveness and egalitarian distribution of power, are not properly manifested in the historical regime form that we call "representative democracy." Whereas "representative democracy" centers an oligarchic form of representation by elected officials, Landemore defends s a more authentic paradigm of popular rule-open democracy--in which legislative power is open to all on an equal basis, including via lottery-based mechanisms"--

Author : Bruce S. Thornton
Publisher : Hoover Press
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 18,20 MB
Release : 2014-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0817917969

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By democracy we usually mean a government comprising popular rule, individual human rights and freedom, and a free-market economy. Yet the flaws in traditional Athenian democracy can instruct us on the weaknesses of that first element of modern democracies shared with Athens: rule by all citizens equally. In Democracy's Dangers & Discontents, Bruce Thornton discusses those criticisms first aired by ancient critics of Athenian democracy, then traces the historical process by which the Republic of the founders has evolved into something similar to ancient democracy, and finally argues for the relevance of those critiques to contemporary U.S. policy. He asserts that many of the problems we face today are the consequences of the increasing democratization of our government and that the flaws of democracy are unlikely to be corrected. He argues that these dangers and discontents do not have to end in soft despotism—that American democracy's aptitude and strength can be recovered by restoring the limited government of the founders.

Author : Michael J. Sandel
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,69 MB
Release : 1984-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0814778410

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Much contemporary political philosophy has been a debate between utilitarianism on the one hand and Kantian, or rights-based ethic has recently faced a growing challenge from a different direction, from a view that argues for a deeper understanding of citizenship and community than the liberal ethic allows. The writings collected in this volume present leading statements of rights-based liberalism and of the communitarian, or civic republican alternatives to that position. The principle of selection has been to shift the focus from the familiar debate between utilitarians and Kantian liberals in order to consider a more powerful challenge ot the rights-based ethic, a challenge indebted, broadly speaking, to Aristotle, Hegel, and the civic republican tradition. Contributors include Isaiah Berlin, John Rawls, Alasdair MacIntyre.