@book {80235, title = {Democracy{\textquoteright}s discontent : America in search of a public philosophy}, year = {1998}, pages = {417}, publisher = {Belknap Press of Harvard University Press}, organization = {Belknap Press of Harvard University Press}, abstract = {

1st Harvard University Press paperback ed.

What ails democracy in America today, and what can be done about it? This work traces the political predicament to a defect in the public philosophy by which we live. The author identifies the dominant public philosophy of the 1990s and finds it flawed.

The public philosophy of contemporary liberalism

{\textendash} Rights and the neutral state

{\textendash} Religious liberty and freedom of speech

{\textendash} Privacy rights and family law

{\textendash} Economics and virtue in the early republic

{\textendash} Free labor versus wage labor

{\textendash} Community, self-government, and progressive reform

{\textendash} Liberalism and Keynesian revolution

{\textendash} The triumph and travail of the procedual republic

{\textendash} Conclusion : In search of a public policy.

}, isbn = {0674197453}, author = {Michael J. Sandel} }