DEMOCRATIC PROCEDURES AND LIBERAL CONSENSUS by George Klosko ( 9780199270200 )

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DEMOCRATIC PROCEDURES AND LIBERAL CONSENSUS

By:

George Klosko

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS

Pub. date:

29 January, 2004

Pages:

284

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In this ground-breaking study, George Klosko combines a theoretical discussion of liberalism with an empirical analysis of the conditions under which people give their support to liberal democratic regimes and regard policies as legitimate.

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Liberal theory seeks agreement on political principles in spite of the moral, religious, and philosophical diversity of contemporary societies. Democratic Procedures and Liberal Consensus breaks new ground in developing principles from research on liberal citizen's attitudes towards rights and liberties, distributive justice, and religious beliefs. Because liberal citizens do not generally accept strong individual rights or strongly egalitarian principles of distributive justice, the principles of liberal consensus must be based on almost universal support for democratic political systems and democracy as a value. The details of central liberal principles, including those bearing on democracy itself, must be worked out by appropriate democratic procedures.

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