A PEGS Reader: Recent and Recommended Books

Recent and Recommended Books

Bedi, Sonu. Rejecting Rights. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Beitz, Charles R. The Idea of Human Rights. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Besson, Samantha and Jose Luis Marti, eds. Legal Republicanism: National and International Perspectives. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Brown, Mark B. Science in Democracy: Expertise, Institutions, and Representation. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009.

Burger, Ronna. Aristotle's Dialogue with Socrates: On the "Nicomachean Ethics". Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2008.

Callon, Michel, Yannick Barthe and Pierre Lascoumes, Graham Burchell, trans. Acting in an Uncertain World: An Essay on Technical Democracy. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2009.

Chemerinsky, Erwin. Enhancing Government: Federalism for the 21^stCentury. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2008.

Christiano, Thomas. The Constitution of Equality: Democratic Authority and Its Limits. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Dzur, Albert W. Democratic Professionalism: Citizen Participation and the Reconstruction of Professional Ethics, Identity, and Practice. University Park, PA: Penn State Press, 2008.

Estlund, David. Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2008.

Faulkner, Robert and Susan Shell, eds. America at Risk: Threats to Liberal Self-Government in an Age of Uncertainty. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009.

Fischer, Frank. Democracy and Expertise: Reorienting Policy Inquiry. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Fishkin, James S. When the People Speak: Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009.

Freeman, Jody and Martha Minow, eds. Government By Contract: Outsourcing and American Democracy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2009.

Gillespie, Michael. The Theological Origins of Modernity. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Goodin, Robert E. Innovating Democracy: Democratic Theory and Practice After the Deliberative Turn. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Kingston, Rebecca E., ed. Montesquieu and His Legacy. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 2009.

Langlois, Anthony J. and Karol Edward Soltan. Global Democracy and its Difficulties. Routledge, 2008.

Macdonald, Terry. Global Stakeholder Democracy: Power and Representation Beyond Liberal States. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008.

Milkis, Sidney M. Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive Party, and the Transformation of American Democracy. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2009.

Nichols, Mary P. Socrates on Friendship and Community: Reflections on Plato's Symposium, Phaedrus, and Lysis. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Posner, Eric A. The Perils of Global Legalism. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Pestritto, Ronald J. and William J. Atto, eds. American Progressivism: A Reader. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2008.

Rahe, Paul A. Montesquieu and the Logic of Liberty. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2009.

Rawls, John. Lectures on the History of Political Philosophy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2008.

Rosanvallon, Pierre. Arthur Goldhammer, trans. Counter Democracy: Politics in an Age of Distrust. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Schapiro, Robert A. Polyphonic Federalism: Toward the Protection of Fundamental Rights. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Shane, Peter M. Madison's Nightmare: How Executive Power Threatens American Democracy. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Somers, Margaret R. Genealogies of Citizenship: Markets, Statelessness, and the Right to Have Rights. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Sperling, Valerie. Altered States: The Globalization of Accountability. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Smith, Graham. Democratic Innovations: Designing Institutions for Citizen Participation. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Warshaw, Shirley Anne. The Co-Presidency of Bush and Cheney. Stanford University Press, 2009.

White, Stuart and Daniel Leighton, eds. Building a Citizen Society: The Emerging Politics of Republican Democracy. London: Lawrence and Wishart, 2008.

Xenophon. Robert B. Strassler, ed. The Landmark Xenophon's Hellenika. Pantheon Press, 2009.

Zuckert, Catherine H. Plato's Philosophers: The Coherence of the Dialogues. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press, 2009.

Recent and Recommended Articles

Chambers, Simone. "Rhetoric and the Public Sphere: Has Deliberative Democracy Abandoned Mass Democracy?" Political Theory, 37:3 (2009), 323-50.

Choudhry, Sujit. "Ackerman's Higher lawmaking in Comparative Constitutional Perspective: Constitutional Moments as Constitutional Failures?" International Journal of Constitutional Law, 6:2 (2008), 193-230;

Dryzek, John S., Robert E. Goodin, Aviezer Tucker, and Bernard Reber. "Promethean Elites Encounter Precautionary Publics: The Case of GM Foods." Science, Technology, & Human Values...