| Introduction: The Democratic Moment and the Problem of Difference | 3 |
| Pt. 1 | Democratic Theory: Foundations and Perspectives | 19 |
| 1 | Three Normative Models of Democracy | 21 |
| 2 | Fugitive Democracy | 31 |
| 3 | Using Power/Fighting Power: The Polity | 46 |
| 4 | Toward a Deliberative Model of Democratic Legitimacy | 67 |
| 5 | Procedure and Substance in Deliberative Democracy | 95 |
| 6 | Communication and the Other: Beyond Deliberative Democracy | 120 |
| Pt. 2 | Equality, Difference, and Public Representation | 137 |
| 7 | Dealing with Difference: A Politics of Ideas, or a Politics of Presence? | 139 |
| 8 | Three Forms of Group-Differentiated Citizenship in Canada | 153 |
| 9 | Diversity and Democracy: Representing Differences | 171 |
| 10 | Democracy, Difference, and the Right of Privacy | 187 |
| 11 | Gender Equity and the Welfare State: A Postindustrial Thought Experiment | 218 |
| Pt. 3 | Culture, Identity, and Democracy | 243 |
| 12 | Democracy, Power, and the "Political" | 245 |
| 13 | Difference, Dilemmas, and the Politics of Home | 257 |
| 14 | Democracy and Multiculturalism | 278 |
| 15 | The Performance of Citizenship: Democracy, Gender, and Difference in the French Revolution | 295 |
| 16 | Peripheral Peoples and Narrative Identities: Arendtian Reflections on Late Modernity | 314 |
| Pt. 4 | Does Democracy Need Foundations? | 331 |
| 17 | Idealizations, Foundations, and Social Practices | 333 |
| 18 | Democratic Theory and Democratic Experience | 336 |
| 19 | Democracy, Philosophy, and Justification | 340 |
| 20 | Foundationalism and Democracy | 348 |
| List of Contributors | 361 |
| Index | 365 |