Lexington Books
Pages: 262
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Trim: 6 x 9
978-0-7391-0329-6 • Paperback • February 2002 • $48.99 • (£38.00)
Jack Crittenden is Associate Professor of Political Science at Arizona State University. He is the author of Beyond Individualism: Reconstituting the Liberal Self (1992).
Chapter 1 The Rise of Liberal Democracy
Chapter 2 Liberalism and Autonomy
Chapter 3 Autonomy and Deliberative Democracy
Chapter 4 Civic Education
Chapter 5 Critical Thinking: The Core Across the Curriculum
Chapter 6 Reform Schools: Implementing the Democratic Curriculum
Educators and policymakers who care about the state of our democracy should read this book.
— Alexander W. Astin, Allan M. Cartter Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Los Angeles and Founding Director of the Higher Education R
Crittenden offers a lively, readable, and persuasive defence of democratic deliberation as a competence to be taught in schools, as a model of direct participation, and as a core ideal for liberal democracy
— Simone Chambers, University of Toronto
Crittenden presents an insightful critique of the role of the state and the citizenry in promoting and preserving a system of popular rule.
— Choice Reviews
Three topics of compelling interest among democratic theorists in recent years have been the role and locus of deliberation in public decisionmaking, the nature and imperatives of personal autonomy, and the tasks of civic education. In Democracy's Midwife Jack Crittenden weaves these several concerns into a provocative argument with significant policy dimensions that should greatly interest political theorists and educators alike.
— Thomas A. Spragens, Jr., Professor of political science, Duke University