Models of Democracy
by Held, DavidEdition: 3rd
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-07-11
Publisher(s): Polity
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Summary
The first two editions of Models of Democracy have proven immensely popular among students and specialists worldwide. In a succinct and far-reaching analysis, David Held provides an introduction to central accounts of democracy from classical Greece to the present and a critical discussion of what democracy should mean today. This new edition has been extensively revised and updated to take account of significant transformations in world politics, and a new chapter has been added on deliberative democracy which focuses not only on how citizen participation can be increased in politics, but also on how that participation can become more informed. Like its predecessor, the third edition of Models of Democracy combines lucid exposition and clarity of expression with careful scholarship and originality, making it highly attractive to students and experts in the field. The third edition will prove essential reading for all those interested in politics, political theory and political philosophy.
Author Biography
David Held is Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Table of Contents
| List of Figures and Tables | |
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Classic Models | |
| Classical Democracy: Athens | |
| Political ideas and aims | |
| Institutional features | |
| The exclusivity of an ancient democracy | |
| The critics | |
| In sum: Model I | |
| Republicanism: Liberty, Self-Government and the Active Citizen | |
| The eclipse and re-emergence of homo politicus | |
| The reforging of republicanism | |
| Republicanism, elective government and popular sovereignty | |
| From civic life to civic glory | |
| In sum: Model IIa | |
| The republic and the general will | |
| In sum: model IIb | |
| The public and the private | |
| The Development of Liberal Democracy: For and Against the State | |
| Power and Sovereignty | |
| Citizenship and the Constitutional State | |
| Separation of Powers | |
| The problem of factions | |
| Accountability and Markets | |
| In sum: model IIIa | |
| Liberty and the development of democracy | |
| The dangers of despotic power and an overgrown state | |
| Representative government | |
| The subordination of women | |
| Competing conceptions of the lsquo;ends of governmentrsquo | |
| In sum: Model IIIb | |
| Direct Democracy and the End of Politics | |
| Class and class conflict | |
| History as evolution and the development of captialism | |
| Two theories of the state | |
| The end of politics | |
| Competing conceptions of Marxism | |
| Recent Variants | |
| Competitive ELitism and the Technocratic Vision | |
| Classes, power and conflict | |
| Bureaucracy, parliaments and nation-states | |
| Competitive elitist democracy | |
| Liberal democracy at the crossroads | |
| The last vestige of democracy? | |
| Democracy, capitalism and socialism | |
| lsquo;Classicalrsquo; v. modern democracy | |
| A technocratic vision | |
| In sum: model V | |
| Pluralism, Corporate Capitalism and the State | |
| Group politics, government and power | |
| Politics, consensus and the distribution of power | |
| Democracy, corporate capitalism and the state | |
| In sum: Model VI | |
| Accumulation, legitimation and the restricted sphere of the political | |
| The changing form of representative institutions | |
| From Post-War Stability to Political Crisis: The Polarization of Political Ideas | |
| A legitimate democratic order or a repressive regime? | |
| Overloaded state or legitimation crisis? | |
| Crisis theories: an assessment | |
| Law, liberty and democracy | |
| In sum: model VII | |
| Participation, liberty and democracy | |
| In sum: model VII | |
| Democracy after Soviet Communism | |
| The historical backdrop | |
| The triumph of economic and political liberalism | |
| The renewed necessity of Marxism and democracy from lsquo;belowrsquo;? | |
| Deliberative Democracy and the Defence of Public Reason | |
| Reason and Participation | |
| The limits of democratic theory | |
| The aims of deliberative democracy | |
| What is sound about public reasoning? Impartialism and itrsquo;s critics | |
| Institutions of deliberative democracy | |
| Value pluralism and democracy | |
| In sum: Model IX | |
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