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Choosing Democracy
Author | : Duane E. Campbell |
Publsiher | : Merrill Publishing Company |
Total Pages | : 424 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : UOM:39015031838157 |
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Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy
Author | : S.M. Amadae |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 414 |
Release | : 2003-10-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226016542 |
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Offering a fascinating biography of a foundational theory, Amadae reveals not only how the ideological battles of the Cold War shaped ideas but also how those ideas may today be undermining the very notion of individual liberty they were created to defend.
Putting Choice Before Democracy
Author | : Emily Hauptmann |
Publsiher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 1996-07-03 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781438406107 |
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In this critique of rational choice theory, Emily Hauptmann explores the idea central to the theory, namely, that democracy can best be explained in terms of an economic conception of choice. Her argument turns on the claims that the choices we face as citizens are not reducible to the choices we face as consumers and that democracy cannot be reduced to a series of choices, economic or otherwise.
Democracy s Edge
Author | : Frances Moore Lappe |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 493 |
Release | : 2005-10-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780787983352 |
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Three out of five Americans, both Republicans and Democrats, feel our country is headed in the wrong direction. America is at the edge, a critical place at which we can either renew and revitalize or give in and lose that most precious American ideal--democracy--and along with it the freedom, fairness, and opportunities it assures. Democracy's Edge is a rousing battle cry that we can--and must--act now. From Jefferson to Eisenhower, presidents from both parties have warned us of the danger of letting a closed, narrow group of business and government officials concentrate power over our lives. Yet today, a small and unrepresentative group of people is making vital decisions for all of us. But this crisis is only a symptom, Lappé argues. It's a symptom of thin democracy, something done to us or for us, not by or with us. Such democracy is always at risk of being stolen by private interests or extremist groups, left and right. But there is a solution. The answer, says Lappé, is Living Democracy, a powerful yet often invisible citizens' revolution surging in communities across America. It's not random, disjointed activism but the emergence of a new historical stage of democracy in which Americans realize that democracy isn't something we have but something we do. Either we live it or lose it, says Lappé.
Post Broadcast Democracy
Author | : Markus Prior |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2007-04-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780521858724 |
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This 2007 book studies the impact of the media on politics in the United States during the last half-century.
Political Institutions
Author | : Josep M. Colomer |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2001-02-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0191529257 |
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The role of institutions is to establish the domains of public activity and the rules to select leaders. Democratic regimes organize in simple institutional frameworks to foster the concentration of power and alternative successive absolute winners and losers. They favour political satisfaction of relatively small groups, as well as policy instability. In contrast, pluralistic institutions produce multiple winners, including multiparty co-operation and agreements. They favour stable, moderate, and consensual policies that can satisfy large groups' interests on a great number of issues. The more complex the political institutions, the more stable and socially efficient the outcome will be. This book develops an extensive analysis of this relationship. It explores concepts, questions and insights based on social choice theory, while empirical focus is cast on more than 40 democratic countries and a few international organizations from late medieval times to the present. The book argues that pluralistic democratic institutions are judged to be better than simple formula of their higher capacity of producing socially satisfactory results.
Can Democracy be Designed
Author | : Sunil Bastian,Robin Luckham |
Publsiher | : Zed Books |
Total Pages | : 356 |
Release | : 2003-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1842771515 |
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Constitution-making for democracy has always been a highly political and contested process. It has never been more ambitious, or more difficult, than today as politicians and experts attempt to build democratic institutions that will foster peace and stability in countries torn by violent conflict. The extended investigation out of which this book has grown has ranged across three continents. It has examined such apparently intractable cases as Bosnia-Herzegovina, Sri Lanka and Fiji, as well as apparent 'success stories' like South Africa, Ghana and Uganda. Three groups of questions are explored: * How and by whom were democratic institutions (re)designed? * How have they functioned in practice: what has been the relationship between democratic institutions and democratic politics? * How have they measured up to the pressures placed on them by ongoing violence, poverty, globalization and democratization itself? The authors, while regarding democracy as a general entitlement, refuse to subscribe to a triumphalist view which sees it as a universal panacea. Instead they seek to understand how democratic institutions actually facilitate (or sometimes fail to facilitate) improved governance and the management of conflict in a variety of national settings. This thoughtful and empirical set of explorations is highly relevant to other societies wrestling with similar problems of institutional design in situations of democratic transition and/or deep-seated social conflict.
Democracy and Constitutions
Author | : Allan C. Hutchinson |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 220 |
Release | : 2021 |
Genre | : Constitutional law |
ISBN | : 9781487507930 |
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Bold and unconventional, this book advocates for an institutional turn-about in the relationship between democracy and constitutionalism.