Stephen Macedo

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This volume is a collection of essays by notable political philosophers and legal scholars on the concept of "deliberative democracy". With this theory, moral issues like abortion or affirmative action can be discussed using an enriched process of deliberation that forces citizens to take into account the moral claims of others. Meer

Voter turnout was unusually high in the 2004 U.S. presidential election. At first glance, that level of participation —largely spurred by war in Iraq and a burgeoning culture war at home —might look like vindication of democracy. Meer

Extending the ideas of John Rawls, Macedo defends a “civic liberalism” in culturally diverse democracies that supports the legitimacy of reasonable efforts to inculcate shared political virtues while leaving many larger questions of meaning and value to private communities. Meer