The priority of democracy : political consequences of pragmatism /
Knight, Jack,1952-
Johnson, James,1955-
New York : Russell Sage Foundation ; Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Preliminaries -- Pragmatism and the problem of institutional design -- The appeal of decentralization -- The priority of democracy and the burden of justification -- Reconsidering the role of political argument in democratic politics -- Refining reflexivity -- Formal conditions : institutionalizing liberal guarantees -- Substantive conditions : pragmatism and effectiveness.
Democracy