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Democracy and Difference: Contesting the Boundaries of the Political. (book reviews)
American Political Science Review, September, 1997 by Williams, Melissa S.
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Melissa S. Williams, University of Toronto
Theoretical understandings of democracy and democratic legitimacy are on the move, and the politics of identity and difference generates a good deal of that motion. Historically, political theory, and particularly liberalism, has sought ways of containing and limiting difference and the conflict it produces. But the current wave of democratic theory seeks to enable the expression of difference in politics and stresses the importance of recognizing difference for the ends of justice and legitimacy. These twenty essays, first written for the ...
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