TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gutmann,Amy
TI  - Identity in democracy
SN  - 9781400825523
AV  - JF529 .G886 2003eb
U1  - 322.4 22
PY  - 2003///
CY  - Princeton
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Pressure groups
KW  - Group identity
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Social Identification
KW  - Groupes de pression
KW  - Identité collective
KW  - group identity
KW  - aat
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Political Process
KW  - Political Advocacy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - fast
KW  - Law, Politics & Government
KW  - hilcc
KW  - Political Institutions & Public Administration - General
KW  - Government - General
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-234) and index; Introduction; The Good, the bad, and the ugly of identity politics --; Chapter one; The Claims of cultural identity groups --; Chapter two; The Value of voluntary groups --; Chapter three; Identification by ascription --; Chapter four; Is religious identity special? --; Conclusion; Integrating identity in democracy
N2  - Written by one of America's leading political thinkers, this is a book about the good, the bad, and the ugly of identity politics. Amy Gutmann rises above the raging polemics that often characterize discussions of identity groups and offers a fair-minded assessment of the role they play in democracies. She addresses fundamental questions of timeless urgency while keeping in focus their relevance to contemporary debates: Do some identity groups undermine the greater democratic good and thus their own legitimacy in a democratic society? Even if so, how is a democracy to fairly distinguish between
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