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  • The Spirit of Compromise

    Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It

    by Amy Gutmann, Dennis Thompson ...
    Why compromise is essential for effective government and why it is missing in politics todayTo govern in a democracy, political leaders have to compromise. When they do not, the result is political paralysis—dramatically demonstrated by the gridlock in Congress in recent years. In The Spirit of Compromise, eminent political thinkers Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson show why compromise is so ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Identity in Democracy

    by Amy Gutmann ...
    Written by one of America's leading political thinkers, this is a book about the good, the bad, and the ugly of identity politics.Amy Gutmann rises above the raging polemics that often characterize discussions of identity groups and offers a fair-minded assessment of the role they play in democracies. She addresses fundamental questions of timeless urgency while keeping in focus their relevance to ... Read more

    $30.29 USD

  • Why Deliberative Democracy?

    by Amy Gutmann, Dennis F. Thompson ...
    The most widely debated conception of democracy in recent years is deliberative democracy--the idea that citizens or their representatives owe each other mutually acceptable reasons for the laws they enact. Two prominent voices in the ongoing discussion are Amy Gutmann and Dennis Thompson. In Why Deliberative Democracy?, they move the debate forward beyond their influential book, Democracy and ... Read more

    $29.59 USD

  • Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven but Nobody Wants to Die

    Bioethics and the Transformation of Health Care in America

    by Amy Gutmann, Jonathan D. Moreno ...
    NOW FEATURING A NEW AFTERWORD, "PANDEMIC ETHICS"From two eminent scholars comes a provocative examination of bioethics and our culture’s obsession with having it all without paying the price.Shockingly, the United States has among the lowest life expectancies and highest infant mortality rates of any high-income nation, yet, as Amy Gutmann and Jonathan D. Moreno show, we spend twice as much per ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • Democracy and the Welfare State

    Edited by Amy Gutmann ...
    Series series Studies from the Project on the Federal Social Role
    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: Has public support for the welfare state faded? Can a democratic state provide welfare without producing dependency on welfare? Is a capitalist (or socialist) economy consistent with the preservation of equal liberty and ... Read more

    $48.99 USD

  • A Matter of Interpretation

    Federal Courts and the Law - New Edition

    by Antonin Scalia ...
    Series series
    We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a judge like this can maneuver through earlier cases to achieve the desired aim—“distinguishing one prior case on his left, straight-arming another one on his right, high-stepping away from another precedent about to ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Democratic Education

    Revised Edition

    by Amy Gutmann ...
    A groundbreaking classic that lays out and defends a democratic theory of educationWho should have the authority to shape the education of citizens in a democracy? This is the central question posed by Amy Gutmann in the first book-length study of the democratic theory of education. The author tackles a wide range of issues, from the democratic case against book banning to the role of teachers' ... Read more

    $41.79 USD

  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    Penn Reading Project Edition

    by Benjamin Franklin, Amy Gutmann ...
    Printer and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the age of 65, he sat down to write his autobiography, "having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

    Penn Reading Project Edition

    by Benjamin Franklin, Amy Gutmann ...
    Printer and publisher, author and educator, scientist and inventor, statesman and philanthropist, Benjamin Franklin was the very embodiment of the American type of self-made man. In 1771, at the age of 65, he sat down to write his autobiography, "having emerged from the poverty and obscurity in which I was born and bred to a state of affluence and some degree of reputation in the world, and having ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Lives of Animals

    by J. M. Coetzee ...
    Series series Princeton Classics
    The idea of human cruelty to animals so consumes novelist Elizabeth Costello in her later years that she can no longer look another person in the eye: humans, especially meat-eating ones, seem to her to be conspirators in a crime of stupefying magnitude taking place on farms and in slaughterhouses, factories, and laboratories across the world.Costello's son, a physics professor, admires her ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • On Risk and Disaster

    Lessons from Hurricane Katrina

    by Amy Gutmann ...
    Named one of Planetizen's Top 10 Books of 2006Hurricane Katrina not only devastated a large area of the nation's Gulf coast, it also raised fundamental questions about ways the nation can, and should, deal with the inevitable problems of economic risk and social responsibility. This volume gathers leading experts to examine lessons that Hurricane Katrina teaches us about better assessing, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Multiculturalism

    (Expanded paperback edition)

    by Charles Taylor, Kwame Anthony Appiah, Jürgen Habermas, Stephen C. Rockefeller, Michael Walzer, Susan Wolf ...
    Series series The University Center for Human Values Series
    A new edition of the highly acclaimed book Multiculturalism and "The Politics of Recognition," this paperback brings together an even wider range of leading philosophers and social scientists to probe the political controversy surrounding multiculturalism. Charles Taylor's initial inquiry, which considers whether the institutions of liberal democratic government make room--or should make room--for ... Read more

    $25.99 USD