The priority of democracy
Subtitle: political consequences of  pragmatism
By: Jack Knight and James Johnson
Contributors: Johnson, James, 1955-
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Princeton
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780691151236
Subjects: Philosophy; Democracy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preliminaries; title: Pragmatism and the problem of institutional design; title: The appeal of decentralization; title: The priority of democracy and the burden of justification; title: Reconsidering the role of political argument in democratic politics; title: Refining reflexivity; title: Formal conditions : institutionalizing liberal guarantees; title: Substantive conditions : pragmatism and effectiveness.