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Author Wingenbach, Ed

Title Institutionalizing Agonistic Democracy : Post-Foundationalism and Political Liberalism
Published Farnham : Ashgate Pub., 2011

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Description 1 online resource (238 pages)
Series Rethinking Political and International Theory
Rethinking political and international theory.
Contents Post-foundational politics and democracy -- Agonism and democracy -- A typology of agonistic democracy -- Agonistic democracy and the question of institutions -- Agonistic democracy and the limits of popular participation -- Populism, representation, and the popular will -- Political liberalism, contingency and agonistic pluralism -- Liberalism, agonism, and democracy
Summary Contemporary politics are characterised by the impossibility of agreement on fundamental values. This book examines the institutional alternatives available to democratic politics to determine which institutional structures are most likely to produce a democratic social order in which agonistic citizenship might flourish
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Democracy -- Philosophy
Political science -- Philosophy.
Democracy -- Philosophy
Political science -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781409403548
1409403548
9781409403531
140940353X
1283223449
9781283223447