Democracy has been a flawed hegemony since the fall of communism.
Its flexibility, its commitment to equality of representation, and
its recognition of the legitimacy of opposition politics, are all
positive features for political institutions. But democracy has
many deficiencies: it is all too easily held hostage by powerful
interests; it often fails to advance social justice; and it does
not cope well with a number of features of the political landscape,
such as political identities, boundary disputes, and environmental
crises. Although democracy is valuable it fits uneasily with many
other political values and is in many respects less than equal to
the demands it confronts. In this volume (and its companion,
Democracy's Value) some of the world's most prominent political
theorists and social scientists present original discussions of
these urgently vexing subjects. Democracy's Edges analyses an
enduring problem: how to establish the boundaries of democratic
polities democratically.
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