Jason Brennan (Flanagan Family Professor Flanagan Family Professor

Democracy

A Guided Tour

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Democracy: A Guided Tour gives readers a crash course on the evolution of the idea of democracy, how it has been and is currently practiced, and how we might think about it as we head into a new chapter in its story.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press Inc
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 212mm x 148mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 472g
• ISBN-13: 9780197558812
• ISBN-10: 019755881X
• Artikelnr.: 66454923

Autorenporträt

Jason Brennan is the Flanagan Family Professor of Strategy, Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy at Georgetown University. He is the author of fifteen books, including Debating Democracy (with Hélène Landemore), Against Democracy, and The Ethics of Voting. His books have been translated twenty-seven times into fourteen languages. He specializes in politics, philosophy, and economics.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments
1. Democracy: Why or Why Not?
2. For Stability: Stability through Shared Power
3. Against Stability: Passion and Polarization
4. For Virtue: Does Democracy Enlighten and Ennoble?
5. Against Virtue: Does Democracy Make Us Angry, Mean, and Dumb?
6. For Wisdom: Two Heads Are Smarter than One
7. Against Wisdom: Garbage In, Garbage Out
8. For Liberty: The Consent of the Governed?
9. Against Liberty: Democracy as the Many-Headed Master
10. For Equality: Democracy as the Public Expression of Equal Standing
11. Against Equality: Is Democratic Equality an Illusion?
Works Cited
Index