Constraints to democracy and public reasoning in the new South Africa

Philosophy and Social Criticism 41 (1):37-45 (2015)
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I use part IV of Sen’s book on ‘public reasoning and democracy’ to make an evaluation of South Africa’s new democracy as it was institutionalized in the mid-1990s. I am rather critical about our democracy and about the level of justice attained over the past 18 years

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The idea of justice.Amartya Sen - 2009 - Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press.

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