Beyond Adversary DemocracyUniversity of Chicago Press, 15. jun. 1983 - 398 strani "Beyond Adversary Democracy should be read by everyone concerned with democratic theory and practice."—Carol Pateman, Politics "Sociologists recurrently complain about how seldom it is that we produce books that combine serious theorizing about important issues of public policy with original and sensitive field research. Several rounds of enthusiastic applause, then, are due Jane Mansbridge . . . for having produced a dense and well written book whose subject is nothing less ambitious than the theory of democracy and its problems of equality, solidarity, and consensus. Beyond Adversary Democracy, however, is not simply a work of political theory; Mansbridge explores her abstract subject matter by close studies (using ethnographic, documentary, and questionnaire methods) of two small actual democracies operating at their most elemental American levels (1) a New England town meeting ("Selby," Vermont) and (2) an urban crisis center ("Helpline"), whose 41 employees shared a New Left-Counterculture belief in participatory democracy and consensual decision-making. [Mansbridge] is a force to contend with. It is in our common interest that she be widely read."—Bennett M. Berger, Contemporary Sociology |
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1 Introduction | 3 |
2 Unitary versus Adversary Democracy | 8 |
3 The Inner Logic of Unitary Democracy | 23 |
II A Town Meeting Government | 37 |
4 Life in Small Town Selby | 39 |
5 The Town Meeting | 47 |
6 Unitary Forces in a FacetoFace Assembly | 59 |
7 The Common Interest | 77 |
Helpline | 183 |
16 The Lust for Power | 210 |
IV Conclusion | 231 |
17 Equality | 233 |
18 Consensus | 252 |
19 FacetoFace Assembly | 270 |
20 Size and the Two Forms of Democracy | 278 |
21 The Limits of Friendship | 290 |
8 Conflicting Interests | 89 |
Selby | 97 |
10 Free Choice in Selby | 115 |
11 Was there a Golden Era? | 126 |
III A Participatory Workplace | 137 |
A Crisis Centert | 139 |
13 Dear of Conflict in a FacetoFace Assembly | 149 |
14 Consensus and the Common Interest | 163 |
22 First Principles | 299 |
Tables | 304 |
Variables and Indexes | 322 |
Notes | 333 |
Bibliography | 378 |
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