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Democracy and Legal Change by Melissa Schwartzberg
RRP: $189.00Booksplease Price: $171.61Since ancient Athens, democrats have taken pride in their power and inclination to change their laws, yet they have also sought to counter this capacity by creating immutable laws. In Democracy and... -
Privatization: NOMOS LX by Melissa Schwartzberg
Booksplease Price: $139.06A distinguished group of scholars explore the moral values and political consequences of privatization The 21st century has seen a proliferation of privatization across industries in the United... -
Reconciliation and Repair: NOMOS LXV by Melissa Schwartzberg
RRP: $107.10Booksplease Price: $87.82Features contributions that respond to deep challenges to social cohesion from racial injustice In the latest installment of the NOMOS series, a distinguished group of interdisciplinary scholars... -
Truth and Evidence: NOMOS LXIV by Melissa Schwartzberg
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $95.26Explores the challenges of governing in a post-truth world The relationship between truth and politics has rarely seemed more troubled, with misinformation on the rise, and the value of expertise in... -
Democracy and Legal Change by Melissa Schwartzberg 9780521146579
Booksplease Price: $67.45Since ancient Athens, democrats have taken pride in their power and inclination to change their laws, yet they have also sought to counter this capacity by creating immutable laws. In Democracy and... -
Protest and Dissent: NOMOS LXII by Melissa Schwartzberg
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $95.26Essays on the justification, strategy, and limits of mass protests and political dissent In Protest and Dissent, the latest installment of the NOMOS series, distinguished scholars from the fields... -
Democratic Failure: NOMOS LXIII by Melissa Schwartzberg
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $94.33Explores the challenges facing democracies in the twenty-first century In Democratic Failure, Melissa Schwartzberg and Daniel Viehoff bring together a distinguished group of interdisciplinary... -
Counting the Many: The Origins and Limits of Supermajority Rule by Melissa Schwartzberg
RRP: $50.40Booksplease Price: $48.76Supermajority rules govern many features of our lives in common: from the selection of textbooks for our children's schools to residential covenants, from the policy choices of state and federal... -
Democratic Deals: A Defense of Political Bargaining Melissa Schwartzberg 9780674279322
Booksplease Price: $76.13Two leading scholars of democracy make the case for political bargaining and define its proper limits.Bargains-grand and prosaic-are a central fact of political life. The distribution of bargaining... -
Counting the Many: The Origins and Limits of Supermajority Rule by Melissa Schwartzberg 9780521198233
RRP: $163.80Booksplease Price: $156.72Supermajority rules govern many features of our lives in common: from the selection of textbooks for our children's schools to residential covenants, from the policy choices of state and federal... -
Political Legitimacy: NOMOS LXI by Jack Knight
RRP: $121.80Booksplease Price: $100.19Essays on the political, legal, and philosophical dimensions of political legitimacy Scholars, journalists, and politicians today worry that the world's democracies are facing a crisis of legitimacy... -
Active and Passive Citizens: A Defense of Majoritarian Democracy by Richard Tuck 9780691242798
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $49.75A powerful case for why majority rule-not representation-is the defining feature of democratic politicsThe idea that democratic governance rests on active self-rule by citizens plays surprisingly... -
Jane Mansbridge: Participation, Deliberation, Legitimate Coercion Melissa Williams 9781032094717
RRP: $94.48Booksplease Price: $88.70Jane Mansbridge's intellectual career is marked by field-shifting contributions to democratic theory, feminist scholarship, political science methodology, and the empirical study of social movements... -
Active and Passive Citizens: A Defense of Majoritarian Democracy by Richard Tuck 9780691242811
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $35.81A powerful case for why majority rule-not representation-is the defining feature of democratic politicsThe idea that democratic governance rests on active self-rule by citizens plays surprisingly... -
Wealth: NOMOS LVIII by Jack Knight
RRP: $130.20Booksplease Price: $106.76An in-depth political, legal, and philosophical study into the implications of wealth inequality in modern societies. Wealth, and specifically its distribution, has been a topic of great debate in... -
Creating a Constitution: Law, Democracy, and Growth in Ancient Athens by Federica Carugati
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $72.14A comprehensive account of how the Athenian constitution was created-with lessons for contemporary constitution-buildingWe live in an era of constitution-making. More than half of the world's... -
In Our Name: The Ethics of Democracy by Eric Anthony Beerbohm 9780691154619
RRP: $115.50Booksplease Price: $98.36When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts? What if the government commits a moral crime? The protestor's slogan--"Not in our name!"--testifies... -
States of Emergency in Liberal Democracies by Nomi Claire Lazar
Booksplease Price: $67.45In an emergency, statesmen concentrate power and suspend citizens' rights. These emergency powers are ubiquitous in the crisis government of liberal democracies, but their nature and justification is... -
In Our Name: The Ethics of Democracy by Eric Anthony Beerbohm 9780691168159
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $56.13When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts? What if the government commits a moral crime? The protestor's slogan--"Not in our name!"--testifies... -
Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom by Jacob T. Levy 9780198808916
Booksplease Price: $83.08Intermediate groups- voluntary associations, churches, ethnocultural groups, universities, and more-can both protect threaten individual liberty. The same is true for centralized state action against... -
Rationalism, Pluralism, and Freedom by Jacob T. Levy 9780198717140
Booksplease Price: $138.66Intermediate groups voluntary associations, churches, ethnocultural groups, universities, and more-can both protect and threaten individual liberty. The same is true for centralized state action... -
The Colonial American Origins of Modern Democratic Thought by J. S. Maloy 9780521514385
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $97.21This first examination in almost forty years of political ideas in the seventeenth-century American colonies reaches some surprising conclusions about the history of democratic theory more generally... -
The Duty to Vote by Julia Maskivker 9780190066062
Booksplease Price: $92.53What do we owe those in our communities? What do we owe strangers? In a sense, those who vie for political office locally and nationally do so, at least in part, from duty and obligation to their... -
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Fundamental Political Writings by Jean-Jacques Rousseau 9781554812974
RRP: $39.80Booksplease Price: $31.42This classroom edition includes On the Social Contract, the Discourse on the Sciences and the Arts, the Discourse on the Origins of Inequality, and the Preface to Narcissus.Each text has been newly... -
Democracy and Disenfranchisement: The Morality of Electoral Exclusions by Claudio Lopez-Guerra 9780198705789
Booksplease Price: $241.25The denial of voting rights to certain types of persons continues to be a moral problem of practical significance. The disenfranchisement of persons with mental impairments, minors, noncitizen... -
Words on Fire: Eloquence and Its Conditions by Rob Goodman 9781009045773
RRP: $67.20Booksplease Price: $63.95Why is political rhetoric broken - and how can it be fixed? Words on Fire returns to the origins of rhetoric to recover the central place of eloquence in political thought. Eloquence, for the orators...