Description
| Summary: | Democracy is not only a form of government. It is also the moral aspiration for a society of self-governing political equals who disagree about politics. Citizens are called on to be active democratic participants, but they must also acknowledge one another's political equality. Democracy thus involves an ethic of civility among opposed citizens. Upholding this ethic is more difficult than it may look. When the political stakes are high, the opposition seems to us to be advocating injustice. Sustaining Democracy poses the question: why should we uphold democratic relations with those whose pol.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 168 pages). |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| ISBN: | 9780197556481
0197556485
9780197556467
0197556469
9780197556474
0197556477 |
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| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed April 29, 2022). |
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