Beyond Adversary Democracy

Name: Beyond Adversary Democracy
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ISBN: 9780226503554

ISBN-10: 0226503550

ISBN-13: 9780226503554

Edition: 1983 (Reprint)

Authors: Jane J. Mansbridge

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"Beyond Adversary Democracy should be read by everyone concerned with democratic theory and practice."--Carol Pateman, Politics "Sociologists recurrently complain about how seldom it is that we produce books that combine serious theorizing about important issues of public policy with original and sensitive field research. Several rounds of enthusiastic applause, then, are due Jane Mansbridge . . . for having produced a dense and well written book whose subject is nothing less ambitious than the theory of democracy and its problems of equality, solidarity, and consensus. Beyond Adversary Democracy, however, is not simply a work of political theory; Mansbridge explores her abstract subject…

Book details

Copyright year: 1983
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 6/15/1983
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 412
Size: 0.65" wide x 0.93" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.386
Language: English



Preface (1983)



The Argument



Introduction



Unitary versus Adversary Democracy



The Inner Logic of Unitary Democracy



A Town Meeting Government



Life in Small Town Selby



The Town Meeting



Unitary Forces in a Face-to-Face Assembly



The Common Interest



Conflicting Interests



Political Inequality: Selby



Free Choice in Selby



Was There a Golden Era?



A Participatory Workplace



Helpline: A Crisis Center



Fears of Conflict in a Face-to-Face Assembly



Consensus and the Common Interest



Political Inequality: Helpline



The Lust for Power



Conclusion



Equality



Consensus



Face-to-Face Assembly



Size and the Two Forms of Democracy



The Limits of Friendship



First Principles



Political Equality in Selby and Helpline: Tables



Variables and Indexes


Notes


Bibliography


Index