Introduction: the challenge of pluralism PART I Liberal democracy and the exclusion of politics 1 Trading values: Hayek and the dethronement of politics by markets 2 Trimming values: Rawls and the constitutional avoidance of politics 3 Segregating values: Walzer and the communitarian containment of politics PART II Democratic liberalism and the politics of compromise 4 Negotiating values: from consensus to compromise 5 A negotiating democracy: the political constitution of a pluralist polity PART III Pluralism, liberalism and democracy in Britain 6 Trading democracy for markets: the Citizen’s Charter and the contracting state 7 Trimming democracy: the Human Rights Act 8 De-segregating democracy: whose Europe, which community?