The Idea of Democracy

Introduction Part I. The Point of Democracy: 1. Tocqueville and democracy Stephen Holmes 1a. Tocqueville, commerce and democracy Debra Satz 2. Making truth safe for democracy David Estlund 2a. Could political truth be a hazard for democracy? David Copp 3. Democratic rights at national and workplace levels Richard J. Arneson 3a. Justified to whom? Robert Sugden Part II. Democracy and Preferences: 4. Public choice versus democracy Russell Hardin 4a. Social choice and democracy Thomas Christiano 5. Democracy and shifting preferences Cass R. Sunstein 5a. Must preferences be respected in a democracy? John Ferejohn Part III. Democracy and Public Reason: 6. The domain of the political and overlapping consensus John Rawls 6a. Moral pluralism and political consensus Joshua Cohen 6b. The moral commitments of liberalism Jean Hampton 7. Constituting democracy David Gauthier 7a. On contractarian constitutional democracy Christopher W. Morris Part IV. Democracy and Economics: 8. The possibility of market socialism John E. Roemer 8a. Alternative conceptions of feasibility Michael S. McPherson 9. A political and economic case for the democratic enterprise Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis 9a. Contested power Karl Ove Moene Part V. Democracy: Case Studies: 10. Capitalist development and democracy: empirical research on the social origins of democracy John D. Stephens 10a. Comments on John D. Stephens 'Capitalist development and democracy' Pranab Bardhan.