When the State Speaks, What Should It Say? How Democracies Can Protect Expression and Promote Equality

Name: When the State Speaks, What Should It Say? How Democracies Can Protect Expression and Promote Equality
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ISBN: 9780691147628

ISBN-10: 0691147620

ISBN-13: 9780691147628

Edition: 2012

Authors: Corey Brettschneider

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How should a liberal democracy respond to hate groups and others that oppose the ideal of free and equal citizenship? The democratic state faces the hard choice of either protecting the rights of hate groups and allowing their views to spread, or banning their views and violating citizens' rights to freedoms of expression, association, and religion. Avoiding the familiar yet problematic responses to these issues, political theorist Corey Brettschneider proposes a new approach called value democracy. The theory of value democracy argues that the state should protect the right to express illiberal beliefs, but the state should also engage in democratic persuasion when it speaks through its…

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List price: $40.00
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 7/24/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 232
Size: 0.10" wide x 0.10" long x 0.10" tall
Weight: 1.012
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction Averting Two Dystopias: An Introduction to Value Democracy



The Principle of Public Relevance and Democratic Persuasion: Value Democracy's Two Guiding Ideas



Publicly Justifiable Privacy and Reflective Revision by Citizens



When the State Speaks, What Should It Say?: Democratic Persuasion and the Freedom of Expression



Democratic Persuasion and State Subsidy



Religious Freedom and the Reasons for Rights


Conclusion Value Democracy at Home and Abroad


Notes


Bibliography


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