CONTENTS
List of contributors = ⅶ
Backgrounds to the arguments
1 Introduction / GRAEME DUNCAN = 3
2 The limits of democratic theory / PAUL E. CORCORAN = 13
3 The historical study of 'democracy' / IAIN HAMPSHER-MONK = 25
Classical theories
4 Mill and Rousseau : utility and rights / ALAN RYAN = 39
5 'Classical' images of democracy in America : Madison and Tocqueville / RICHARD W. KROUSE = 58
6 Marxism and democratic theory / MICHAEL LEVIN = 79
7 Consensus and community : the theory of African one-party democracy / PAUL NURSEY-BRAY = 96
Revisions and critiques
8 Democracy : American style / MICHAEL MARGOLIS = 115
9 The competitive model of democracy / DAVID MILLER = 133
10 Marcuse and autonomy / VINCENT GEOGHEGAN = 156
11 Functional representation and democratic politics : towards a corporatist democracy? / ALAN CAWSON = 173
Possible futures
12 Human nature and radical democratic theory / GRAEME DUNCAN = 187
13 Feminism and democracy / CAROLE PATEMAN = 204
14 Returning the social to democracy / DAVID HARRIS = 218
15 Bureaucracy and democracy / DENNIS F. THOMPSON = 235
16 Beginning at the end of democratic theory / HENRY S. KARIEL = 251
Notes = 263
Index = 290
