"What does recent research tell us about how well democracies
actually correspond to the hopes and aspirations we have for them?
In this well-crafted and readable analysis, Ian Shapiro gives a
sobering but not pessimistic answer to this question. A must read
for democratic theorists and citizens alike!"--Iris Young,
University of Chicago
"Shapiro delivers what the title suggests: a survey of the
issues most discussed by political theorists and the main positions
taken, with plenty of references to the literature for those who
wish to pursue the subject further. But he succeeds in doing much
more than this. If, as he suggests, the point of democracy is to
strengthen the position of the dispossessed and vulnerable, there
is a lot wrong not only with the practice of democracy but with
much of the theorizing about it. Indeed, Shapiro argues that the
most popular nostrums currently put forward by theorists would make
matters worse. Even those familiar with the literature discussed
will be intrigued and challenged by Shapiro's analysis."--Brian
Barry, Columbia University
"This book is smart, erudite, but accessible. The examples
Shapiro draws on to illustrate his points--South Africa, the Middle
East, U.S. court cases--give the argument immediacy and relevance.
It makes a valuable contribution to political theory, and should
encourage political theorists to think about real-life
politics"--Nancy Hirschmann, University of Pennsylvania
"Shapiro articulates an incisive critique of deliberative
theory--the reigning orthodoxy in contemporary normative theorizing
about democracy--in a way that will be accessible to an unusually
broad audience of political theorists and social scientists,
students as well as scholars."--Clarissa Rile Hayward, Ohio State
University
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