Introduction, Sean Sayers; democracy and the decline of the left, John Keane; socialism, radical democracy, and class politics, Andrew Gamble; liberals versus socialists - who are the true democrats?, John Hoffman; which rights of citizenship?, Michael Rustin; new forms of democracy for socialist renewal, Hilary Wainwright; equality and difference - the emergence of a new concept of citizenship, Anne Sassoon; the early socialist critique of democracy in Britain, Gregory Claeys; British socialism and democracy in retrospect, Fred Whitemore; the conception of democracy under perestroika, Richard Sakwa; socialism and democracy in China, Peter Ferdinand.