The Dialogue of Justice: Toward a Self-Reflective Society

by James S. Fishkin and Professor James S. Fishkin

People around the world are agitating for democracy and individual rights, but there is no consensus on a theory of liberal democracy that might guide them. What are the first principles of a just society? What political theory should shape public policy in such a society? In this book, James S. Fishkin offers a new basis for answering these questions by proposing the ideal of a "self-reflective society"--a political culture in which citizens are...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300066392
• ISBN13: 9780300066395
• Release Date: February 1996
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.71 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.3"