State, power and democracy: contentious concepts in practical political theory
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1988
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adam_text | Contents
Preface xi
Introduction 1
A Contentious Triad of Contestable Concepts 1
Political Theory and Political Practice 2
Is Political Theory Necessarily Ideological? 6
PART ONE: STATE AND POLITICS
1 The Problem of the State 13
A Contestable Concept? 13
The State and the Politics of Problems 14
The State and the Problem of Politics 19
The Breadth Argument vs. the Identity Problem 22
The State and the Problem of Origins 28
2 The Problem of Society 33
The State as a Pathological Paradox 33
The Social Roots of the Political Paradox 38
Distinguishing the State from Society: the
Public/ Private Divide 42
What was Society like before the State? 48
3 Getting Rid of the State 54
What Hope for the Future? 54
Refurbishing the State of Nature: the Libertarian
Solution 56
Marxist and Anarchist Strategies: a Practical
Answer? 62
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PART TWO: POWER AND AUTHORITY
4 Machiavelli’s Centaur and the Two Levels 73
The Contradictory Relationship 73
The Parties are Incompatible: Why no Divorce? 78
Can a Social Analysis Unlock the Embrace? 82
5 The Dimensions Debate and the Problem of Structure 88
The Pluralist Case for the Dispersal of Power 88
Indirect Influence and the Erosion from Within 92
The Problem of Consensus and Power 97
Structures and Agents of the World Unite! 101
6 Taming the Centaur: Can the Riddle be Solved? 108
How does the Ruling Class Rule? A Marxist Debate 108
Are the Marxists Hoist on their own Petard? 112
Reconstructing the Relationship between
Power and Authority 121
PART THREE: DEMOCRACY AND LIBERALISM
7 Promiscuity and the Cloud of Humbug 131
Why the Ambiguity? 131
Democracy and the American Political Tradition 134
Hypocrisy and Deception: Digging for the Roots 143
8 The Subversive Abstractions of the Liberal
Tradition 150
The Political Artefact and the Abstract Individual 150
The Theological Niceties of Classical Liberalism 155
Can Liberals become Democrats? Engaging
Macpherson 162
J.S. Mill and the Old Liberalism 170
9 Democracy—‘A Name for What We Cannot Have*? 176
Liberal Reformism and the Advance to Democracy 176
Elitist Democracy: a Victory for Realism? 182
From Elitism to Participation: Demolishing the
Hierarchies 189
Liberalism vs. Democracy: the Challenge of the
New Right 196
Bibliography 203
Index 211
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