Sustaining democracy : what we owe to the other side / Robert B. Talisse.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Talisse, Robert B., author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Polarization (Social sciences)--United States.

Polarization (Social sciences).

Opposition (Political science).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (184 pages).

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2021]

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 politics we despise?

Contents:

Cover

Half-Title

Title

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Big Picture

1. Common Ground and Its Erosion

2. Is Democracy Self-.Defeating?

3. Sustaining Democracy and Overdoing Democracy

4. Final Preliminaries

1. Democracy as a Society of Equals

1. Democracy as a Moral Idea

2. Democracy as an Ethos

2.1. Duties of Citizenship

2.2. Virtues of Citizenship

2.3. Fitting the Pieces Together

3. Democracy as a Practical Ideal

4. The Generality of the Account

2. Why Sustain Democracy?

1. Seeing the Dilemma from the Inside

2. Persistent Political Disagreement

2.1. Good-.Faith Political Disagreement

2.2. Limits to Good-.Faith Political Disagreement

2.3. The Dilemma Restated

3. The Burden of Citizenship

4. Addressing the Citizen

3. The Polarization Dynamic

1. Political Polarization

1.1. Three Sites of Political Polarization

1.2. The Three Sites as Mutually Reinforcing

2. Belief Polarization

2.1. Examples of Belief Polarization

2.2. Thinking in Groups

2.3. How Belief Polarization Works

2.4. Belief Polarization and the Stadium

2.5. Polarization as a Dynamic

3. Polarization Among Allies

3.1. Love Your Political Enemies?

3.2. Fractured Allegiances

4. The Dilemma Resolved: Why Sustain Democracy

4. How Can We Sustain Democracy?

1. The Depth of Political Identity

1.1. Some Experimental Findings

1.2. Political Identity as a Way of Seeing the World

2. The Facilitated Democracy Approach

3. How to Sustain Democracy

3.1. What Sustaining Democracy Does Not Require

3.2. Sustaining Democracy Within

3.3. The Importance of Political Distance

4. Conclusion

Epilogue: Living Together as Equals

Notes

Works Cited

Index.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2021.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-755647-7

0-19-755648-5

0-19-755646-9