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,

David Held is Graham Wallas Professor of Political Science at the London School of Economics and Political Science.

"The great global struggles today are not over democracy versus other forms of government but over the meanings and practices of democracy themselves. There is no better critical and engaged survey of the complex histories and contemporary struggles over this deeply contested concept than David Held's third and improved edition of Models of Democracy, precisely because it is written in awareness of its own contestability." James Tully, University of Victoria "Models is the kind of established classic which both demands and merits revision every decade or so." David Beetham, University of Leeds "Everyone who has used Models will welcome this new edition. Newcomers will find a wide-ranging and reliable analysis of past and present debates about democracy and gain an understanding of what is at issue in current global arguments." Carole Pateman, Cardiff University and University of California at Los Angeles

"The great global struggles today are not over democracy versusother forms of government but over the meanings and practices ofdemocracy themselves. There is no better critical and engagedsurvey of the complex histories and contemporary struggles overthis deeply contested concept than David Held's third and improvededition of Models of Democracy, precisely because it iswritten in awareness of its own contestability."
James Tully, University of Victoria
 
"Models is the kind of established classic which bothdemands and merits revision every decade or so."
David Beetham, University of Leeds
 
"Everyone who has used Models will welcome this newedition. Newcomers will find a wide-ranging and reliable analysisof past and present debates about democracy and gain anunderstanding of what is at issue in current globalarguments."
Carole Pateman, Cardiff University and University ofCalifornia at Los Angeles