Shapiro The Real World of Democratic Theory

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-3683-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 304 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Shapiro, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Demokratie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Geschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface ix

INTRODUCTION

Revisiting Democracy's Place 1

CHAPTER ONE: John Locke's Democratic Theory 39

CHAPTER TWO: Tyranny and Democracy: Refl ections on Some Recent Literature 68

CHAPTER THREE: Problems and Prospects for Democratic Settlements: South Africa as a Model for the Middle East and Northern Ireland? by Courtney Jung, Ellen Lust-Okar, and Ian Shapiro 80

CHAPTER FOUR: Players, Preconditions, and Peace: Why Talks Fail and How They Might Succeed by Ellen Lust and Ian Shapiro 143

CHAPTER FIVE: Containment and Democratic Cosmopolitanism 157

CHAPTER SIX: The Political Uses of Public Opinion: Lessons from the Estate Tax Repeal by Mayling Birney, Ian Shapiro, and Michael Graetz 180

CHAPTER SEVEN: The Constitutional Politics of Abortion in the United States 219

CHAPTER EIGHT: Democratic Justice: A Reply to Critics 251

Appendix to Chapter Three: Surveys of Israeli Business Elites 275

Appendix to Chapter Six: Polls on the Repeal or the Fairness of the Estate Tax 277

Index 279

Über Autor(innen)

Ian Shapiro is the Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale University. Among his many books are Containment: Rebuilding a Strategy against Global Terror and The Flight from Reality in the Human Sciences (both Princeton).