Selection of contents: PART ONE: Traditional Affirmations of Democratic Values Pericles, Funeral Oration; Aristotle, The Politics; Machiavelli, The Discourses; Hobbes, Leviathan; J.-J. Rousseau, The Social Contract; J.S. Mill, Representative Government; De Tocqueville, Democracy in America; Paine, Rights of Man; A. Lincoln, Gettysburg Address; J.A. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy; PART TWO: Key Concepts Freedom and Autonomy I. Kant, Political Writings; I. Berlin, Two Concepts of Liberty; R.P Wolff, In Defense of Anarchism; Equality J. Locke, Second Treatise on Government; Rousseau, Social Contract; Rousseau, Discourse on the Origins of Inequality; B. Williams, The Idea of Equality; Representation; Burke, Speech to Bristol Electors; James Mill, Essay on Government; A. Phillips, The Politics of Presence; I.M. Young, Justice and the Politics of Difference; Majority Rule Rousseau, Social Contract; J.S. Mill, Representative Government; De Tocqueville, Democracy in America; G. Sartori, Theory of Democracy Revisited; R.A. Dahl, Polyarchy, Participation and Opposition; Citizenship Aristotle, Politics; T.H. Marshall, Class, Citizenship and Social Development; W. Kymlicka and W. Norman, The Return of the Citizen; PART THREE: Critiques of Democracy Marxist and Socialist Critiques Marx, On the Jewish Question; Marx, The Civil War in France; Lenin, State and Revolution; C.B. Macpherson, Democratic Theory, Essays in Retrieval; Conservative, Elitist and Authoritarian critiques Plato, The Republic; Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France; M. Weber, Economy and Society; B. Mussolini, extract from The Doctrine of Fascism; J. Schumpeter, Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy; C. Schmidt, The Concept of the Political; R. Scruton, The Meaning of Conservatism; G. Sartori, Anti-Elitism Revisited; Feminist Critiques M. Wollstonecraft, Vindication of the Rights of Woman; D. Coole, Women in Political Theory; K. Nash, Beyond Liberalism? Feminist Theories of Democracy; S. Mendus, Losing the Faith, Feminism and Democracy; PART FOUR: Contemporary Issues Rational Choice A. Downs, An Economic Theory of Democracy; M. Olsen, The Logic of Collective Action; B. Barry, Sociologists, Economists and Democracy; F. Hayek, The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism; M. Friedman, Capitalism and Freedom; D. Beetham, Liberalism and the Limits of Democratisation; Nationalism J. Schwarzmantel Two Concepts of the Nation' from Socialism and the Idea of the Nation; D. Miller, On Nationality; G. Nodia, Nationalism and Democracy; Multiculturalism C. Taylor, The Dynamics of Democratic Exclusion; W. Kymlicka, Multi-Cultural Citizenship; I. M. Young, Justice and the Politics of Difference; Charles W. Mills, The Racial Contract; Beyond the West B. Parekh, The Cultural Particularity of Liberal Democracy; A. Sen, Democracy as a Universal Value; A.J. Nathan, Chinese Democracy; Participation G. Parry and G. Moyser, More Participation, More Democracy?; H.F. Pitkin and S.M. Shumer, On Participation; M. Walzer, extract from A Day in the Life of a Socialist Citizen; C. Pateman, Participation and Democratic Theory; Civil Society J. Cohen and A. Arato, Civil Society and Political Theory; R. Putnam, Bowling Alone; P. Hirst, Associational Democracy; Deliberation R. Blaug, New Developments in Deliberative Democracy; J. Habermas, The Public Sphere: An Encyclopedia Article; The Future of Democracy C. Mouffe, Radical Democracy: Modern or Post-modern?; B. Epstein, Radical Democracy and Cultural Politics: What about Class? What about Political Power?; J. Stewart, Thinking Collectively in the Public Domain; B.N. Hague & B.D. Loader, Digital Democracy: An Introduction.
