Reconstructing Political Pluralism

Avigail I. Eisenberg is Assistant Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver.

• Acknowledgments I. Reconstructing Political Pluralism II. John Dewey and the Roots of Political Pluralism III. Pluralism to Limit State Sovereignty IV. Individualists, Group Theorists, and Behavioralists V. The Common Good in Postwar Pluralism VI. Personal Development and the Requirements of Community Bibliography Index

"Focusing attention on pluralism, its history, and its possible contribution to recent issues in political theory, this book displays an emphasis that has not been prevalent in recent scholarship. This is a nonstandard and refreshing approach to pluralist theory written from an external but sympathetic perspective." — Carol C. Gould, Stevens Institute of Technology"This book connects the contemporary concerns of the liberalism-communitarianism debate to an older political science literature that is rarely mentioned, or perhaps even read, by contemporary theorists. Eisenberg succeeds in showing that this earlier literature is both relevant and illuminating. The connections she makes between group pluralism and individual self-development are an important contribution." — Joseph H. Carens, University of Toronto