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Article: Democracy's Value.(Review)
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- Utopian Studies
- Article date:
- March 22, 2000
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Ian Shapiro and Casiano Hacker-Cordon, eds. Democracy's Value. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiv + 201 pp. $49.95. Paperback, $19.95.
THESE TWO BOOKS RESULT from a February 1997 conference at Yale on "Rethinking Democracy for a New Century," and appear as part of a Cambridge University Press series, "Contemporary Political Theory," whose editor and most board members have chapters in these volumes. They seem in many ways important and interesting books. Leading political theorists and political scientists conferred together, considered what democracy means not only for a new century but at a time when democracy is a "hegemon ... without a serious ...