A just society guarantees its members rights to basic civil liberties protecting the political liberties associated with democratic governance, while ensuring state accountability and responsiveness to citizens. Despite broad agreement on these abstract requirements, the conditions that foster justice, thus understood, are a matter of long-standing controversy in political theory.This important collection addresses these controversies with over fifty articles on basic political institutions such as the rule of law, judicial review, federalism, separation of powers, freedom of speech, elections and parties, direct democracy, organized social groups, and administrative agencies.
| ISBN: | 9781852783426 |
| Publication date: | 1st June 1996 |
| Author: | Joshua Cohen |
| Publisher: | Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 2144 pages |
| Series: | Schools of Thought in Politics series |
| Genres: |
Political science and theory Constitution: government and the state Political structures: democracy |