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Explores the moral foundations and the political prospects of the welfare state in the United States. This volume confronts powerful criticisms that have been leveled against the welfare state by conservatives, liberals, and radicals and suggests reforms in welfare state programs that might meet these criticisms.

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Who should have the authority to shape the education of citizens in a democracy This is the central question posed by Amy Gutmann in the first book-length study of the democratic theory of education.

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Explores the individual and civic values of associational freedom in a liberal democracy, as well as the moral and constitutional limits of claims to associational freedom. Beginning with an introductory essay on freedom of association, this book includes essays on individual rights of association and civic values of association.

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Talks about the good, the bad, and the ugly of identity politics. This book addresses fundamental questions of urgency while keeping in focus their relevance to contemporary debates. It shows that identity-group politics is not aberrant but inescapable in democracies because identity groups represent who people are, not only what they want.

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A collection of essays, which show how deliberative democracy should play an important role even in the debates about military intervention abroad. It is suitable for those who are intent on giving reason and reciprocity a more prominent place in politics than power and special interests.

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Connects the rejection of compromise to the domination of campaigning over governing - the permanent campaign - in American democracy. This title shows that campaigning for political office calls for a mindset that blocks compromise - standing tenaciously on principle to mobilize voters and mistrusting opponents in order to defeat them.

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To govern in a democracy, political leaders have to compromise. When they do not, the result is political paralysis - dramatically demonstrated by the gridlock in Congress in recent years. This book shows why compromise is so important, what stands in the way of achieving it, and how citizens can make defensible compromises more likely.