Kant defined the Enlightenment as humanity's attempt to leave behind its self-imposed immaturity. Social theory is thus charged with enlightening...

Relations between the public and holders of political authority are in a period of transformative flux. On the one side,...

A proposal for negotiating the tension between an anti-authoritarian impulse and a guiding idea of context-transcending validity in critical social...

Norberto Bobbio is the foremost political theorist in Italy today. Written with verve and passion as well as erudition, this...

This book by one of Italy's oldest and wisest intellectuals is a philosophical and personal meditation on ageing. The question...

Politicians and pundits have long disparaged their opponents with polemicist cries of "leftist!" or "rightist!" But with the fall of...

Ideals of democratic participation and rational self-government have long informed modern political theory. As a recent elaboration of these ideals,...

This controversial new look at democracy in a multicultural society considers the ideals of political inclusion and exclusion, and recommends...

Poverty, inequality, violence, environmental degradation, and tyranny continue to afflict the world. Ethics of Global Development offers a moral reflection...

An innovative conception of democracy for an era of globalization and delegation of authority beyond the rule by peoples across...

Christian F. Rostbøll is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark.

It is sometimes assumed that voting is the central mechanism for political decision making. The contributors to this volume focus...

Drawing on political, legal, national, post-national, as well as American and European perspectives, this collection of essays offers a diverse...

This book presents a philosophical argument about deliberative democracy and its relevance to the resolution of deadly ethnic conflicts. It...

In this ground-breaking study, John Dryzek argues that democratic theory is now dominated by a deliberative approach. As one of...

This book offers a complete rethink of the institutional limits and possibilities of deliberative democracy and legitimacy. Examining several unresolved...

This book examines the central questions of democracy and politics in modern societies. Through an analysis of some of the...