Tronto’s Caring Democracy: Markets, Equality, and Justice argues that democratic politics must be fundamentally reorganised around the public allocation of care responsibilities. Rather than treating care as a private, feminine or household matter, Tronto insists that care is central to democracy because all human beings depend on networks of care throughout life. The book challenges the public/private divide that has historically separated political life from domestic labour, showing that this separation hides the inequalities through which women, racialised groups, migrants and poorer workers are made responsible for care while others are freed from it. Tronto links the contemporary care deficit to the democratic deficit: societies fail both because they undervalue care and because political institutions no longer respond to citizens’ real needs. Against neoliberal assumptions that markets can organise care efficiently, she argues that care cannot be reduced to a commodity, since good care requires responsibility, attentiveness, responsiveness and justice. Her key concept, “caring with”, names a democratic practice in which citizens collectively negotiate who gives care, who receives it, and how care should be supported by institutions. The book therefore redefines democracy not merely as voting or interest aggregation, but as an ongoing process of deciding how people live together, meet needs and sustain a shared world. Ultimately, Tronto proposes a caring democracy in which freedom, equality and justice are measured not by market success, but by whether all people can participate in, receive and shape care under fair conditions.