Difference and disagreement can be valuable, yet they can also
spiral out of control and damage liberal democracy. Advancing a
metaphor of citizenship that the author terms 'role-based
constitutional fellowship,' this book offers a solution to this
challenge. Cheng argues that a series of 'divisions of labor' among
citizens, differently situated, can help cultivate the foundational
trust required to harness the benefits of disagreement and
difference while preventing them from 'overheating' and, in turn,
from leaving liberal democracy vulnerable to the growing influence
of autocratic political forces. The book recognizes, however, that
it is not always appropriate to attempt to cultivate trust, and
acknowledges the important role that some forms of confrontation
might play in identifying and rectifying undue social hierarchies,
such as racial-ethnic hierarchies. Hanging Together thereby works
to pave a middle way between deliberative and realist conceptions
of democracy.
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