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List of Figures and Tables
 
 
Preface
 
 
Introduction
 
 
Part One: Classic Models
 
 
Chapter 1 - Classical Democracy: Athens
 
 
Political ideas and aims
 
 
Institutional features
 
 
The exclusivity of an ancient democracy
 
 
The critics
 
 
In sum: Model I
 
 
Chapter 2 - 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
 
 
Chapter 3 - 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 ‘ends of government’
 
 
In sum: Model IIIb
 
 
Chapter 4 - 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
 
 
Part Two: Variants from the Twentieth Century
 
 
Chapter 5 - 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
 
 
‘Classical’ v. modern democracy
 
 
A technocratic vision
 
 
In sum: model V
 
 
Chapter 6 - 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
 
 
Chapter 7 - 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
 
 
Chapter 8 - Democracy after Soviet Communism
 
 
The historical backdrop
 
 
The triumph of economic and political liberalism
 
 
The renewed necessity of Marxism and democracy from ‘below’?
 
 
Chapter 9 - Deliberative Democracy and the Defence of the Public Realm
 
 
Reason and Participation
 
 
The limits of democratic theory
 
 
The aims of deliberative democracy
 
 
What is sound about public reasoning? Impartialism and it’s critics
 
 
Institutions of deliberative democracy
 
 
Value pluralism and democracy
 
 
In sum: Model IX
 
 
Part Three: What Should Democracy Mean Today?
 
 
Chapter 10 - Democratic Autonomy
 
 
The appeal of democracy
 
 
The principle of autonomy
 
 
Enacting the principle
 
 
The heritage of classic and twentieth-century democratic theory
 
 
Democracy: A double-sided process
 
 
Democratic autonomy: compatibilities and incompatibilities
 
 
In sum: Model Xa
 
 
Chapter 11 - Democracy, the Nation-State and the Global System
 
 
Democratic legitimacy and borders
 
 
Regional and global flows: old and new
 
 
Sovereignty, autonomy and disjunctures
 
 
Rethinking democracy for a more global age: the cosmopolitan model
 
 
In sum: model Xb
 
 
Acknowledgements
 
 
References and Select Bibliography
 
 
Index
 

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