This article offers a theory of constitutional patriotism independently from controversial social theories of modernization and rationalization, with which Jürgen Habermas’s version of constitutional patriotism is associated. It argues that the purpose of constitutional patriotism as a set of beliefs and dispositions is to enable and uphold a liberal democratic form of rule that free and equal ...

As James Madison aptly put it: “A popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or, perhaps both.” In our day, certainly in the United States and to a growing extent in other developed democracies, most citizens most of the time acquire popular information from the commercial mass media. It hasn’t always been that way a...

The past decade has seen intensified calls for the reform of democratic political institutions in Canada, on the grounds that there is a “democracy deficit” at the level of federal politics. Some commentators have even begun to describe the country as a “banana republic,” or a “friendly dictatorship.” Yet any attempt to assess the state of democracy in Canada must naturally presuppose some theo...

This paper extends the analysis of liberal principles in social choice recently proposed by Mariotti and Veneziani (2009a) to in…nitely-lived societies. First, some novel characterisations of inegalitarian leximax social welfare relations are derived based on the Individual Bene…t Principle (IBP), which incorporates a liberal, non-interfering view of society. This is surprising because the IBP ...

What if we selected our leaders by lottery? Zooming out from the mud huts of indigenous communities in forested hills eastern India, this article compares three different models leadership and democracy: liberal electoral democracy; Marxist-Leninist Maoist democracy sortition — random selection rotating leaders. The significance is introduced into discussions India (showing connections with pra...

Although recent debates surrounding the relationship between commitments to gender equality and cultural justice have given a renewed impetus to feminist critiques of liberal conceptions of the public realm, prominent interventions by Martha Nussbaum and Monique Deveaux have continued to affirm one of two long-standing, yet controversial, feminist strategies for reconceptualising the public rea...

In recent years, the Democratic Party has been considerably more successful at electing women than the Republican Party. Research suggests that the Democratic advantage for women stems from a more inclusive party culture and party support for women-friendly policies. This paper considers whether the gender gap in representation between the parties may also be shaped by intersection of instituti...

The success of the democratic peace research agenda has led scholars to search for additional externalities of liberal politics and economics. Among the most promising venues is the system itself. The diffusion of democratic norms or identities could discourage conflict even among nondemocracies. Yet, reconciling systemic claims with dyadic findings appears to require hypocrisy; democracies mus...

This study aims to assess the claims whether or not direct democracy in ancient Athens can be properly regarded as a liberal had potentials evolve into democratic regime. For this purpose, firstly, brief examination of is provided focusing on basic tenets liberalism; namely individualism, limited conceptualisation state, negative freedom, and rights. Then, principles ideals Athenian are briefly...

criticizing the drawbacks of modern societies, lyotard glorifies the changing of meta-narration to show lack of such narrations totally. for him such a condition or changing of sub-narrations to periphery ones gives him an opportunity to self-expression and survival chance, which by intention to solidarity, stability, etc. they have been deprived of their identity, but keeping eternality of suc...