Just democracy : the Rawls-Machiavelli programme
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Just democracy : the Rawls-Machiavelli programme
(ECPR Press essays)
ECPR Press, 2011
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-167) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Philippe Van Parijs is one of the world's leading political philosophers. In this book, he argues that the purpose of democracy should be to promote justice - we need not just democracy (in the sense of unqualified democracy) but a just democracy. Machiavelli and Rawls must be brought together. In a series of provocative and timely essays, he explores what creating such a just democratic political system would involve in order to tackle such issues as intergenerational justice, multiculturalism and linguistic diversity. He illustrates his arguments with examples drawn from the European Union and his native Belgium.
Table of Contents
contents
List of Figures and Tables ii
Foreword iii
Acknowledgments v
Chapter 1: The Rawls-Machiavelli Programme: Political Institutions as
Instruments of Social Justice 1
Chapter 2: Justice and Democracy: Are they Incompatible? 5
Chapter 3: Contestatory Democracy versus Real Freedom 23
Chapter 4: The Children's Vote and Other Attempts to Secure Intergenerational
Justice 31
Chapter 5: Should the European Union Become More Democratic? 67
Chapter 6: Power-sharing versus Border-crossing in
Ethnically Divided Societies 79
Chapter 7: Must Europe be Belgian? 99
Chapter 8: Belgium Re-founded 117
Chapter 9: Electoral Engineering for a Stalled Federation: A Country-Wide
Electoral District for Belgium's Federal Parliament 123
Chapter 10: Anything (Even) Better than the Pavia Proposal? 143
References 155
Index 169
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