Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Borgebund, Harald

Titel

Review Article: Modus vivendi versus public reason and liberal equality: three approaches to liberal democracy

Ist Teil von

• Critical review of international social and political philosophy, 2015-09, Vol.18 (5), p.564-575

Ort / Verlag

Abingdon: Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2015

Quelle

Taylor & Francis Journals Auto-Holdings Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Liberal democracy constitutes a particularly attractive political model with its emphasis on both popular sovereignty and individual liberty. Recently several new and innovative articulations of the liberal democratic ideal have been presented. This article reviews three of these recent theories and particularly their democratic credentials. The selection includes theories emphasizing modus vivendi, Rawlsian political liberalism and liberal equality. Taken together these theories show different ways to conceptualize democracy within liberal thought. I argue that ultimately all three approaches struggle with articulating a persuasive conception of democracy, but nevertheless these theories show that liberals do think seriously about the role of democracy in their theories.