This book poses the question: How can we organize society in such a
way that our disagreement about facts and norms works to the benefit
of everyone? In response, it makes the argument for polycentric
democracy, a political arrangement consisting of various political
units that enjoy different degrees of independence. It is argued that
to progress towards justice, we first need to change our attitude
towards reasonable disagreement. Theorists have always viewed
reasonable disagreement as nuisance, if not as a threat. However, this
work puts forward that the diversity of perspectives which underlie
reasonable disagreement should be viewed as a resource to be harvested
rather than a threat to be tamed. Resting on two key arguments, the
author proposes the idea of polycentric democracy as the most capable
method of making pluralism productive. The book explores what such a
political order might look like and concludes that only an
institutional system which is capable of profiting from diversity,
such as polycentric democracy, might reasonably be expected to
generate an overlapping consensus. Continuing in the tradition of Karl
Popper and Friedrich August von Hayek, this book lies at the
intersection of philosophy, political economy and political theory. It
will be of great interest to academics and scholars working in
philosophy, politics and economics.
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The Case for Polycentric Democracy
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ISBN
9781315391007
Publisert
2018
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Routledge
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Product language
Engelsk
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Digital bok
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