Democratic Theory

This important work by political philosopher C.B. Macpherson explores the implications of the ideas about democracy that he offered in such previous books as The Political Theory of Possessive Individualism. Macpherson establishes both the need and possibility of a theory of democracy that gets clear of the disabling central defect of current liberal-democratic theory - the refusal to acknowledge the importance of the idea of the transfer of power - while holding on to, or recovering, the humanistic values that liberal democracy has always claimed.