pt. I. The point of democracy. 1. Tocqueville and democracy / Stephen Holmes. Tocqueville, commerce, and democracy / Debra Satz. 2. Making truth safe for democracy / David Estlund. Could political truth be a hazard for democracy? / David Copp. 3. Democratic rights at national and workplace levels / Richard J. Arneson. Justified to whom? / Robert Sugden -- pt. II. Democracy and preferences. 4. Public choice versus democracy / Russell Hardin. Social choice and democracy / Thomas Christiano. 5. Democracy and shifting preferences / Cass R. Sunstein. Must preferences be respected in a democracy? / John Ferejohn -- pt. III. Democracy and public reason. 6. The domain of the political and overlapping consensus / John Rawls. Moral pluralism and political consensus / Joshua Cohen. The moral commitments of liberalism / Jean Hampton. 7. Constituting democracy / David Gauthier. On contractarian constitutional democracy / Christopher W. Morris -- pt. IV. Democracy and economics. 8. The possibility of market socialism / John E. Roemer. Alternative conceptions of feasibility / Michael S. McPherson. 9. A political and economic case for the democratic enterprise / Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis. Contested power / Karl Ove Moene -- pt. V. Democracy: case studies. 10. Capitalist development and democracy: empirical research on the social origins of democracy / John D. Stephens. Comments on John D. Stephens, "Capitalist Development and Democracy" / Pranab Bardhan.
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