Models of Democracy

-List of Figures and Tables
-Preface
-Introduction
-Part One: Classic Models
-Chapter 1 Classical Democracy: Athens
-Political ideas and aims
-Institutional features
-The exclusivity of an ancient democracy
-The critics
-In sum: Model I
-Chapter 2 Republicanism: Liberty, Self Government and the Active Citizen
-The eclipse and re emergence of homo politicus
-The reforging of republicanism
-Republicanism, elective government and popular sovereignty
-From civic life to civic glory
-In sum: Model IIa
-The republic and the general will
-In sum: model IIb
-The public and the private
-Chapter 3 The Development of Liberal Democracy: For and Against the State
-Power and Sovereignty
-Citizenship and the Constitutional State
-Separation of Powers
-The problem of factions
-Accountability and Markets
-In sum: model IIIa
-Liberty and the development of democracy
-The dangers of despotic power and an overgrown state
-Representative government
-The subordination of women
-Competing conceptions of the `ends of government
-In sum: Model IIIb
-Chapter 4 Direct Democracy and the End of Politics
-Class and class conflict
-History as evolution and the development of captialism
-Two theories of the state
-The end of politics
-Competing conceptions of Marxism
-Part Two: Variants from the Twentieth Century
-Chapter 5 Competitive ELitism and the Technocratic Vision
-Classes, power and conflict
-Bureaucracy, parliaments and nation states
-Competitive elitist democracy
-Liberal democracy at the crossroads
-The last vestige of democracy?
-Democracy, capitalism and socialism
-`Classical v. modern democracy
-A technocratic vision
-In sum: model V
-Chapter 6 Pluralism, Corporate Capitalism and the State
-Group politics, government and power
-Politics, consensus and the distribution of power
-Democracy, corporate capitalism and the state
-In sum: Model VI
-Accumulation, legitimation and the restricted sphere of the political
-The changing form of representative institutions
-Chapter 7 From Post War Stability to Political Crisis: The Polarization of Political Ideas
-A legitimate democratic order or a repressive regime?
-Overloaded state or legitimation crisis?
-Crisis theories: an assessment