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Identity in Democracy

Amy Gutmann - Philosophy - 2004 - 260 pages
Do voluntary groups like the Boy Scouts have a right to discriminate on grounds of sexual preference, gender, or race?"--BOOK JACKET.
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Democracy and Disagreement

Amy Gutmann, Dennis F. Thompson - Political Science - 2009 - 446 pages
The din and deadlock of public life in America—where insults are traded, slogans proclaimed, and self-serving deals made and unmade—reveal the deep disagreement that pervades ...
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Freedom of Association

Amy Gutmann - Philosophy - 1998 - 394 pages
Americans are joiners--of churches, community associations, and service organizations of all kinds. This volume explores the individual and civic values of associational ...
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Truth v. Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions

Robert I. Rotberg, Dennis F. Thompson - Political Science - 2010 - 344 pages
The truth commission is an increasingly common fixture of newly democratic states with repressive or strife-ridden pasts. From South Africa to Haiti, truth commissions are at ...
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Democracy and the Welfare State

Amy Gutmann - Philosophy - 1988 - 306 pages
The essays in this volume explore the moral foundations and the political prospects of the welfare state in the United States. Among the questions addressed are the following ...
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The Constitution of Deliberative Democracy

Carlos Santiago Nino - Political Science - 1996 - 268 pages
In this important and wide-ranging book, a leading political theorist and activist considers the question: What justifies democracy? Carlos Santiago Nino critically examines ...
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Delinquency, Its Roots, Careers, and Prospects

Donald James West - Social Science - 1982 - 196 pages
Delinquency evaluates one of the largest longitudinal-observational studies of juvenile delinquents ever conducted. Utilizing a normal population sample and conducting ...
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Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race

Kwame Anthony Appiah, Amy Gutmann - Philosophy - 1998 - 200 pages
In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice--whether through "color-blind" policies or through affirmative action--provokes more noisy name-calling than fruitful ...
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