Democracy - Reality and Responsibility
Sixth Plenary Session, 23-26 February 2000
Acta 6, ed. H. Zacher
Vatican City, 2001
pp. 422
ISBN 88-86726-10-4
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SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
Part I
The General Framework
Der Stand der Arbeiten der Akademie zur Demokratie (The State of the Academy’s Deliberations on Democracy) (PDF)
H.F. Zacher
Democracy and Other Goods (PDF)
P. Dasgupta
Part II
Democracy: Strategies for Values – How to Advocate, Foster and Defend Values in a Pluralistic Society by Democratic Means
Démocratie et Valeurs: Quelle stratégie dans une société pluraliste? (Democracy and Values. What Strategy in a Pluralistic Society?) (PDF)
M. Schooyans
Strategien zur Entfaltung der Werte (Strategies to Develop and to Defend Values) (PDF)
P. Kirchhof
Part III
The Ideal of Democracy and Democratic Reality – the Ever-Changing Interplay Between Democratic Structures and Civil Society
The Ever-Changing Interplay Between Democracy and Civil Society (PDF)
M.A. Glendon
Ambiguous Ideals and Problematic Outcomes: Democracy, Civil Society, Human Rights, and Social Justice (PDF)
G. Therborn
Part IV
Democracy and Individual Fields of Encounter Between the State and Society
Education as a Precondition for Democracy (PDF)
P.M. Zulu
Democracy, Public Opinion and the Media (PDF)
J. Ziolkowski
Demokratie und Wirtschaft (Democracy and the Economy) (PDF)
H. Tietmeyer
Democracy and Labour (PDF)
C. Crouch
The Democratic Welfare State (PDF)
M.G. Schmidt
Ethnische Strukturen und nationale Demokratie (Ethnic Structures and National Democracy) (PDF)
H. Schambeck
Religion and Democracy in the Post-Modern World: the Possibility of a ‘Religiously Qualified’ Public Sphere (PDF)
P. Donati
Democracy and Religious Communities. The Riddle of Pluralism (PDF)
H.C. Malik
Part V
Closing Discussion
Le Développement de la Démocratie et la Doctrine Sociale de l’Eglise (Democratic Development and the Social Teaching of the Church) (PDF)
R. Minnerath
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Hans F. Zacher
Chairman of the Academy’s ad hoc
Committee on Democracy
