Political Morality
A Theory of Liberal Democracy
Published on 1. July 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-8264-5066-1 (ISBN)
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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (UK-trade)
Dimensions
Height: 216 mm
Width: 138 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
300 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8264-5066-1 (9780826450661)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
Content
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.