Political morality : a theory of liberal democracy
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Political morality : a theory of liberal democracy
（Political theory and contemporary politics）
Continuum, 2001
- : hardback
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 189-199) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780826450661
Description
This work shows that liberal democracy can make sense as a single political conception, rather than a trade-off between two different ones. It also points to ways in which polities currently termed "liberal democracies" fall clearly short of the values that might legitimize them.
Table of Contents
- Fables about freedom
- democracy as political morality
- procedure and substance in democratic theory
- moral defeats and majority rule
- how rights come in
- the scope of liberty
- on disagreement
- neutrality and community.
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: hardback ISBN 9780826450678
Description
Although liberal democratic polities have an important place in contemporary politics, their justification is contentious. Liberalism and democracy are commonly thought to be inconsistent, or at least in tension with one another; and the reality of liberal democracy is perceived as falling far short of the ideal. In Political Morality, Richard Vernon sets out to show that liberal democracy can make sense as a single political conception, rather than a trade-off between two different values. He also argues that in conceiving of liberal democracy as proposed, other problems inherent in liberalism and in democracy are eased; liberal democracy is not exposed to the same objections as liberalism and it can avoid some of the paradoxes that are said to plague democratic theory. The book also points to some of the ways in which polities currently termed 'liberal democracies' fall clearly short of the values that might legitimize them.
Table of Contents
- Fables about freedom
- democracy as political morality
- procedure and substance in democratic theory
- moral defeats and majority rule
- how rights come in
- the scope of liberty
- on disagreement
- neutrality and community.
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