What Democracy Is For : : On Freedom and Moral Government /

What Democracy Is For : : On Freedom and Moral Government / / Stein Ringen.

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In this provocative book, Stein Ringen argues that the world's democracies are failing to live up to their ideals--the United States and Great Britain most especially. The core value of democracy, he contends, is freedom, the freedom to live a good life according to one's own choosing. Yet...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Ringen, Stein,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009]
©2007
Year of Publication:2009
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (336 p.) :; 10 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface to the Paperback Edition
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER 1. How Good Are the Good Democracies?
  • CHAPTER 2. Is Economic Democracy Available?
  • CHAPTER 3. What Should Welfare States Do?
  • CHAPTER 4. Can We Eradicate Poverty?
  • CHAPTER 5. What Do Families Do?
  • CHAPTER 6. Where Does Freedom Come From?
  • CONCLUSIONS
  • APPENDIX A. The Truth About Class Inequality
  • APPENDIX B. How Good Is the Kindest Democracy?
  • APPENDIX C. What Does a Good Press Look Like?
  • APPENDIX D. The Flat-Tax Issue
  • APPENDIX E. The Basic-Minimum-Income Issue
  • APPENDIX F. The Index Problem
  • APPENDIX G. Social Anchorage
  • References
  • Index

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