Just Democracy

We don't just need democracy. We need just democracy. Among the countless ways in which democracies could be organised, we must not try to adopt the most democratic ones. We must go instead for th ...

We don't just need democracy. We need just democracy. Among the countless ways in which democracies could be organised, we must not try to adopt the most democratic ones. We must go instead for those that offer the best prospect of making our societies and our world more just. This is the core of the Rawls-Machiavelli programme forcefully advocated and vividly illustrated in this book, a powerful alliance between Rawlsian thinking about social justice and Machiavellian thinking about political institutions. For example, how could our political institutions be reformed i