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Record Nr.

UNINA9910345157703321

Titolo

Problems for democracy / / edited by John Kultgen and Mary Lenzi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam ; ; New York, : Rodopi, 2006

ISBN

94-012-0330-X

1-4294-5649-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (317 p.)

Collana

Value inquiry book series. Philosophy of peace ; ; 181

Altri autori (Persone)

KultgenJohn H

LenziMary

Disciplina

321.8

Soggetti

Peace-building

Democracy

Political science - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Papers presented at the annual conference of the Concerned Philosophers for Peace (CPP) on Problems for Democracy, held in Columbia, Mo.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [249]-260) and index.

Nota di contenuto

CONTENTS; Editorial Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Is There a Connection between Democracy and Peace?; PART ONE: Divisions in Society and Obstacles to Democratic Discourse; PART TWO: Public Participation in Political and Economic Processes; PART THREE: Democracy and Routes to Peace; Bibliography; About the Contributors; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This book, based on the premise that democracy promotes peace and justice, explores theoretical and practical problems that can arise or that have arisen in democratic polities. Contributors address, with clarifying analyses, such theoretical issues as the relationship between recursivist metaphysics and democracy, the relationship between the economic and political orders, and the nature of justice. Contributors offer, as well, enlightening resolutions of practical problems resulting from a history of social, political or economic injustice.