Democracy and Difference

by Anne Phillips

Book Overview

A focus on the issues of class has provided much of the content of twentieth-century debates on democracy, with liberal democrats seeking to discount class differences and social democrats trying to find ways to eliminate them. Within this framework, attention has historically been given to such questions as the substantive conditions necessary to fulfill the promise of political equality, the appropriate scope of democratic decisionmaking, and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271010975
• ISBN13: 9780271010977
• Release Date: August 1993
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"