Law, Pragmatism, and Democracy

✍ Scribed by Richard A. Posner

Publisher: Harvard University Press
Year: 2009
Tongue: English
Leaves: 411
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

Posner argues for a conception of the liberal state based on pragmatic theories of government. He emphasizes the institutional and material, rather than moral and deliberative, factors in democratic decision making. Posner argues that democracy is best viewed as a competition for power by means of regular elections.

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