Reconstructing Political Pluralism
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- ISBN 9780791425626
- Weight: 308g
- Publication Date: 17 Aug 1995
- Publisher: State University of New York Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A reappraisal of the pluralist tradition that explores the accounts offered by James, Dewey, Figgis, Cole, Laski, Follett, and Dahl and extracts from them the resources with which to reconstruct a democratic theory of political pluralism.
This reappraisal of the pluralist tradition systematically explores accounts of political pluralism offered by James, Dewey, Figgis, Cole, Laski, Follett, and Dahl and shows how each variant contains a distinct account of the relation between group power, individual interest, and self-development. These historical accounts provide the resources with which Eisenberg reconstructs a democratic theory of political pluralism. At the center of political pluralism, she argues, is a pluralist approach to self-development that can address the key ambiguities of identity politics and provide a more effective means to balance the power relations between individuals and communities than can individualist or communitarian approaches.
Avigail I. Eisenberg is Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.
