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• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Preface to the Second Edition, by Ian Shapiro
• Note on the Text, by Ian Shapiro
• 1 Do We Really Need a Guide?
• Part I. The Beginning
• 2 Where and How Did Democracy Develop? A Brief History
• 3 What Lies Ahead?
• Part II. Ideal Democracy
• 4 What Is Democracy?
• 5 Why Democracy?
• 6 Why Political Equality I? Intrinsic Equality
• 7 Why Political Equality II? Civic Competence
• Part III. Actual Democracy
• 8 What Political Institutions Does Large-Scale Democracy Require?
• 9 Varieties I: Democracy on Different Scales
• 10 Varieties II: Constitutions
• 11 Varieties III: Parties and Electoral Systems
• Part IV. Conditions Favorable and Unfavorable
• 12 What Underlying Conditions Favor Democracy?
• 13 Why Market-Capitalism Favors Democracy
• 14 Why Market-Capitalism Harms Democracy
• 15 The Unfinished Journey
• Part V. After on Democracy, By Ian Shapiro
• 16 Continuing the Journey?
• 17 Democracy and Inequality
• Appendix
• Appendix A. On Electoral Systems
• Appendix B. Political Accommodation in Culturally or Ethnically Divided Countries
• Appendix C. On Counting Democratic Countries
• Appendix D. On Counting Democratic Countries II
• Notes
• Further Reading
• Acknowledgments
• Index
• Footnotes
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 14