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The Clash of Rights - Liberty, Equality, and Legitimacy in Pluralist Democracy (Paperback, New)
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The Clash of Rights - Liberty, Equality, and Legitimacy in Pluralist Democracy (Paperback, New)
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Why do citizens in pluralist democracies disagree collectively
about the very values they agree on individually? This provocative
book highlights the inescapable conflicts of rights and values at
the heart of democratic politics. Based on interviews with
thousands of citizens and political decision makers, the book
focuses on modern Canadian politics, investigating why a country so
fortunate in its history and circumstances is on the brink of
dissolution. Taking advantage of new techniques of
computer-assisted interviewing, the authors explore the politics of
a wide array of issues, from freedom of expression to public
funding of religious schools to government wiretapping to antihate
legislation, analyzing not only why citizens take the positions
they do but also how easily they can be talked out of them. In the
process, the authors challenge a number of commonly held
assumptions about democratic politics. They show, for example, that
political elites do not constitute a special bulwark protecting
civil liberties; that arguments over political rights are as deeply
driven by commitment to the master values of democratic politics as
by failure to understand them; and that consensus on the rights of
groups is inherently more fragile than on the rights of
individuals.
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