What democracy is for : on freedom and moral government / Stein Ringen.
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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Princeton ; Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
2009, ©2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Preface to the Paperback Edition; Acknowledgments; How Good Are the Good Democracies; Is Economic Democracy Available; What Should Welfare States Do; Can We Eradicate Poverty; What Do Families Do; Where Does Freedom Come From; The Truth About Class Inequality; How Good Is the Kindest Democracy; What Does a Good Press Look Like; The Flat Tax Issue.