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Acknowledgements.

Introduction - Republicanism(s).

Chapter 1 - Ideal of Polity.

introduction.

ancient liberty vs. modern liberty.

positive and negative liberty.

neo-Roman republican liberty.

instrumental republicanism.

conclusion.

notes.

Chapter 2 - Modern Republicanism: Liberty as Nondomination.

introduction.

instrumental republicanism revisited.

three advantages associated with freedom as nondomination.

modern republican instrumental goods constitute liberty as nondomination.

the two powers of modern republicanism and personal self-development.

conclusion.

notes.

Chapter 3 - The Challenge of the Cultural Marketplace: Modern Republicanism and the Neutral State.

introduction.

liberalism and republicanism: friends or allies.

autonomy, individualism, and civic virtue.

modern republicanism and state neutrality.

the republican 'psychology' of civic virtue.

social or state perfectionism.

against state perfectionism.

modern republican state perfectionism.

republican quasi-perfectionism: threat or enhancement?.

conclusion.

notes.

Chapter 4 - Without Regret: The Comprehensive Nature of Nondomination.

introduction.

political liberalism and the 'Idea of Public Reason'.

constraint, regret, and overspill.

modern republicanism: comprehensive or political?.

modern republicanism and neutrality of aim.

tracking values and the wide view of public reason.

splitting the spheres.

conclusion.

notes.

Chapter 5 - Factions and Diversity: A Modern Republican Dilemma.

introduction.

discord and diversity: the life and death of the republic.

civil discord and stability: Machiavelli's break with the past.

Rome vs. Florence.

legitimate difference and diversity.

good laws and institutions.

coping with pluralism.

lessons from Machiavelli.

is a modern republican account of pluralism possible?.

respecting the 'other'.

conclusion.

notes.

Chapter 6 - Modern Republicanism and Democratic Contestatory Institutions.

introduction.

democracy and republican technology.

neo-Roman republican technology: classical and modern.

modern democratic contestation.

nondomination and contestation.

nondominating processes and outcomes:.

democratic contestation.

objections to modern republican democratic contestation.

conclusion.

notes.

Chapter 7 - Modern Republican Civic Education and Social Norms.

introduction.

educating the republic.

liberal approaches to civic education.

a modern republican approach to civic education.

modern republican social norms.

nondomination as a social norm.

conflict and norms.

conclusion.

notes.

Conclusion.

References.

Index