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The Good State
Author | : A. C. Grayling |
Publsiher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 197 |
Release | : 2020-02-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781786077196 |
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The foundations upon which our democracies stand are inherently flawed, vulnerable to corrosion from within. What is the remedy? A. C. Grayling makes the case for a clear, consistent, principled and written constitution, and sets out the reforms necessary – among them addressing the imbalance of power between government and Parliament, imposing fixed terms for MPs, introducing proportional representation and lowering the voting age to 16 (the age at which you can marry, gamble, join the army and must pay taxes if you work) – to ensure the intentions of such a constitution could not be subverted or ignored. As democracies around the world show signs of decay, the issue of what makes a good state, one that is democratic in the fullest sense of the word, could not be more important. To take just one example: by the simplest of measures, neither Britain nor the United States can claim to be truly democratic. The most basic tenet of democracy is that no voice be louder than any other. Yet in our ‘first past the post’ electoral systems a voter supporting a losing candidate is unrepresented, his or her voice unequal to one supporting a winning candidate, who frequently does not gain a majority of the votes cast. This is just one of a number of problems, all of them showing that democratic reform is a necessity in our contemporary world.
The Principle of Democracy
Author | : Yat-sen Sun |
Publsiher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 1970 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : UOM:39015002447582 |
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Democracy and the Rule of Law
Author | : Adam Przeworski,José María Maravall |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2003-07-21 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0521532663 |
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This book addresses the question of why governments sometimes follow the law and other times choose to evade the law. The traditional answer of jurists has been that laws have an autonomous causal efficacy: law rules when actions follow anterior norms; the relation between laws and actions is one of obedience, obligation, or compliance. Contrary to this conception, the authors defend a positive interpretation where the rule of law results from the strategic choices of relevant actors. Rule of law is just one possible outcome in which political actors process their conflicts using whatever resources they can muster: only when these actors seek to resolve their conflicts by recourse to la, does law rule. What distinguishes rule-of-law as an institutional equilibrium from rule-by-law is the distribution of power. The former emerges when no one group is strong enough to dominate the others and when the many use institutions to promote their interest.
Open Democracy
Author | : Hélène Landemore |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2022-03-08 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9780691212395 |
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To the ancient Greeks, democracy meant gathering in public and debating laws set by a randomly selected assembly of several hundred citizens. To the Icelandic Vikings, democracy meant meeting every summer in a field to discuss issues until consensus was reached. Our contemporary representative democracies are very different. Modern parliaments are gated and guarded, and it seems as if only certain people are welcome. Diagnosing what is wrong with representative government and aiming to recover some of the openness of ancient democracies, Open Democracy presents a new paradigm of democracy. Supporting a fresh nonelectoral understanding of democratic representation, Hélène Landemore demonstrates that placing ordinary citizens, rather than elites, at the heart of democratic power is not only the true meaning of a government of, by, and for the people, but also feasible and, more than ever, urgently needed. -- Cover page 4.
Toward Democracy
Author | : James T. Kloppenberg |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 909 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780195054613 |
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Chapter 4 -- Chapter 5 -- Chapter 6 -- Chapter 7 -- Chapter 8 -- Chapter 9 -- Chapter 10 -- Chapter 11 -- Chapter 12 -- Chapter 13 -- Chapter 14 -- INDEX
The Principles of Representative Government
Author | : Bernard Manin |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 260 |
Release | : 1997-02-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0521458919 |
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The thesis of this original and provocative book is that representative government should be understood as a combination of democratic and undemocratic, aristocratic elements. Professor Manin challenges the conventional view that representative democracy is no more than an indirect form of government by the people, in which citizens elect representatives only because they cannot assemble and govern in person. The argument is developed by examining the historical moments when the present institutional arrangements were chosen from among the then available alternatives. Professor Manin reminds us that while today representative institutions and democracy appear as virtually indistinguishable, when representative government was first established in Europe and America, it was designed in opposition to democracy proper. Drawing on the procedures used in earlier republican systems, from classical Athens to Renaissance Florence, in order to highlight the alternatives that were forsaken, Manin brings to the fore the generally overlooked results of representative mechanisms. These include the elitist aspect of elections and the non-binding character of campaign promises.
The Militant Democracy Principle in Modern Democracies
Author | : Dr Markus Thiel |
Publsiher | : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. |
Total Pages | : 605 |
Release | : 2013-02-28 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9781409496793 |
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Providing an up-to-date analysis of key country approaches to Militant Democracy, featuring contributions from some of the key people working in this area, including Mark Tushnet and Helen Irving, this book is a valuable resource for students, academics and policy-makers concerned with democratic principles.