Realizing Democracy

Democracy requires a proper understanding of the values and forms of social cooperation, we ought to honor. But it also requires practices that make it more likely that those values will be honored. This course will (1) examine institutional practices & political choices required to support a range of values we associate with democracy (2) examine the ways in which these values can be realized in the light of new challenges (3) use both philosophical texts and empirical material to understand the ways in which democracy can be better realized.