credentials and legitimacy. The normative appraisal depends on the conception of democracy adopted. While critics frequently … espouse a majoritarian conception, this paper argues that it is too thin of a model of democracy. Alternatively, it argues … that a pluralistic conception of liberal democracy is thicker, and truer to the fundamental values of liberty and political …

elite theory of politics and the concept and principles of liberal democracy. In other words, the question is whether the … concept of liberal democracy. The latter discourse will be undertaken with a view to showcasing the relationship between the … existence of elites is compatible with the existence of democracy …

Liberalismus aus der Perspektive des politischen Liberalismus. Er interpretiert Hayeks Theorie der spontanen Ordnung neu: sie tritt …Während der klassische ökonomische Liberalismus die Wohlstandsinteressen der Bürger gegenüber einem nicht demokratisch … legitimierten Herrscher vertrat, wenden sich die modernen Varianten des Liberalismus an den Bürger als Souverän der Gesetzgebung …

chapter investigates the relationship of classical liberalism in general and of Buchanan in particular to democratic theory … coercive. Historically, democratic theory had to go beyond that simplistic notion of democracy to develop a critique of consent …Nancy MacLean’s book, Democracy in Chains , raised questions about James M. Buchanan’s commitment to democracy. This …