Laclau and Mouffe: The Radical Democratic Imaginary provides both a much needed overview of Laclau and Mouffe's thinking and how that thinking may be challenged and developed.

Anna Marie Smith is Assistant Professor of Government at Cornell University. She is the author of New Right Discourse on Race and Sexuality: Britain 1968-1990.

INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 RETRIEVING DEMOCRACY; Chapter 2 ESSENTIALISM, NON-ESSENTIALISM AND DEMOCRATIC LEADERSHIP; Chapter 3 SUBJECT POSITIONS, ARTICULATION AND THE SUBVERSION OF ESSENTIALISM; Chapter 4 SELF-DETERMINATION, COMMUNITY AND CITIZENSHIP; Chapter 5 POWER AND HEGEMONY; CONCLUSION; NOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX;