Illusion of Consent

Daniel I. O'Neill is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Florida and the author of The Burke-Wollstonecraft Debate: Savagery, Civilization, and Democracy (Penn State, 2007). Mary Lyndon Shanley is Professor of Political Science at Vassar College and co-editor (with Carole Pateman) of Feminist Interpretations and Political Theory (Penn State, 1991) and (with Uma Narayan) Reconstructing Political Theory (Penn State, 1997). Iris Marion Young was, until her untimely death in 2006, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago.

• ContentsPrefaceIntroductionDaniel I. O’Neill, Mary Lyndon Shanley, and Iris Marion YoungPart I. Liberalism and Contract1. Carole Pateman: Radical Liberal?Jane Mansbridge2. Paradoxes of Liberal Politics: Contracts, Rights, and ConsentMoira Gatens3. The Domination ContractCharles W. Mills4. Human Rights and the Epistemology of Social Contract TheoryBrooke A. AckerlyPart II. Autonomy and Consent5. Free to Decide for OneselfAnne Phillips6. Women’s Work: Its Irreplaceability and ExploitabiltyRobert E. Goodin7. A Democratic Defense of Universal Basic IncomeMichael GoodhartIII. Democracy, Political Participation, and Welfare8. Participation Revisited: Carole Pateman vs. Joseph SchumpeterAlan Ryan9. Participation, Deliberation, and We-thinkingPhilip Pettit10. Deliberative Democracy, Subordination, and the Welfare StateJohn MedearisAfterwordCarole PatemanList of ContributorsIndex

“An impressive collection of essays from many of the leading social and political theorists writing today. The essays develop important new arguments and compose a fitting tribute to Carole Pateman, whose work has had such a major impact, and who offers here a fine afterword.”—Virginia Held, Graduate School, City University of New York