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Hanging Together

Hanging Together

Cheng, Eric W.

Hardcover

AnthropologyGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 1009179284
ISBN13: 9781009179287
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 21 2022
Pages: 206
Weight: 0.98
Height: 0.50 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Difference and disagreement can be valuable, yet they can also spiral out of control and damage liberal democracy. Advancing a metaphor of citizenship that the author terms 'role-based constitutional fellowship, ' this book offers a solution to this challenge. Cheng argues that a series of 'divisions of labor' among citizens, differently situated, can help cultivate the foundational trust required to harness the benefits of disagreement and difference while preventing them from 'overheating' and, in turn, from leaving liberal democracy vulnerable to the growing influence of autocratic political forces. The book recognizes, however, that it is not always appropriate to attempt to cultivate trust, and acknowledges the important role that some forms of confrontation might play in identifying and rectifying undue social hierarchies, such as racial-ethnic hierarchies. Hanging Together thereby works to pave a middle way between deliberative and realist conceptions of democracy.

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