Democratic Theory: A Basic Bibliography

Democratic Theory:

A Basic Bibliography

This section on 'theory' is from a larger bibliography containing a 'praxis' section, a portion of which was published in Vol. 14, No. 3 (2005) of The Good Society. Sections 1 and 2 assume some familiarity with primary texts and therefore include titles that fall under the rubric of 'secondary literature.' However, insofar as the articulation of the philosophy of Liberalism is an ongoing affair, contemporary titles from the likes of Galston, Gaus, and Rawls, for example, can hardly be deemed 'secondary,' so the appellation is in regard to the first wave or historically classical works of Liberalism (Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, etc.) that are not included here.

1. Athenian Democracy (secondary literature)

Brickhouse, Thomas C. and Nicholas D. Smith. Socrates on Trial. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1989.

Cohen, D. J. Law, Violence and Community in Classical Athens. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1995.

Finley, M. I. Democracy Ancient and Modern. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, revised ed., 1985.

Finley, M. I. Politics in the Ancient World. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1983.

Hansen, Mogens Herman. The Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes. Oxford, UK: Blackwell, 1991.

Hansen, Mogens Herman. Was Athens a Democracy? Copenhagen: Munksgaard, 1993.

Kraut, Richard. Socrates and the State. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1984.

Ober, Josiah. The Athenian Revolution: Essays on Ancient Greek Democracy and Political Theory. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.

Ober, Josiah. Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology, and the Power of the People. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991.

Ober, Josiah. Political Dissent in Democratic Athens: Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1998.

Sinclair, R. K. Democracy and Participation in Athens. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Todd, Stephen C. The Shape of Athenian Law. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1993.

Woodruff, Paul. First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea. New York: Oxford University Press, 2005.

2. Liberalism: Philosophy and History (secondary literature)

Ackerman, Bruce. The Future of Liberal Revolution. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1992.

Ashcraft, Richard. Revolutionary Politics and Locke's Two Treatises of Government. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1986.

Barry, Brian. The Liberal Theory of Justice. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1973.

Beiner, Ronald. What's the Matter with Liberalism? Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1992.

Bellamy, Richard. Liberalism and Pluralism: Towards a Politics of Compromise. London: Routledge, 1999.

Bellamy, Richard. Rethinking Liberalism. London: Pinter, 2000.

Bellamy, Richard and Martin Hollis, eds. Pluralism and Liberal Neutrality. London: Frank Cass & Co., 1999.

Benn, Stanley I. A Theory of Freedom. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1988.

Berkowitz, Peter. Virtue and the Making of Modern Liberalism. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1999.

Berlin, Isaiah (Henry Hardy, ed.). Liberty. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.

Buchanan, Allen E. Marx and Justice: The Radical Critique of Liberalism. Rowman & Littlefield, 1982.

Christman, John and Joel Anderson, eds. Autonomy and the Challenges to Liberalism: New Essays. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2005.

D'Agostino, Fred and Gerald F. Gaus, eds. Public Reason. Aldershot: Ashgate, 1998.

Crowder, George. Liberalism and Value Pluralism. New York: Continuum, 2002.

Davion, Victoria and Clark Wolf, eds. The Idea of a Political Liberalism: Essays on Rawls. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 2000.

Dombrowski, Daniel A. Rawls and Religion: The Case for Political Liberalism. Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 2001.

Dunn, John. The Political Thought of John Locke. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1969.

Galipeau, Claude J. Isaiah Berlin's Liberalism. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press, 1994.

Galston, William A. Liberal Pluralism: the Implications of Value Pluralism for Political Theory and Practice. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Galston, William A. Liberal Purposes: Goods, Virtues, and Diversity in the Liberal State. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Gaus, Gerald F. Contemporary Theories of Liberalism: Public Reason as a Post-Enlightenment Project. London: Sage, 2003.

Gaus, Gerald F. Justificatory Liberalism: An Essay on Epistemology and Political Theory. New York: Oxford University Press, 1996.

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