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The State of Democratic Theory.
The State of Democratic Theory Ian Shapiro Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003, 183 pp.
Ian Shapiro, a political science professor at Yale, is one of the leaders of an emerging literature that combines insights from political theory and empirical scholarship. In The State of Democratic Theory, he deploys both to good effect. The book also couples impressive analytical sophistication with clarity of exposition that makes it accessible to lay readers. In the first part of the book, Shapiro criticizes the two most influential theories of democracy: deliberative democracy and what he calls "aggregative" ...See the full content of this document
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