[PDF] Democracy In Action eBook

Author : Kristina Smock
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 33,66 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Community development, Urban
ISBN : 0231126735

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In cities across the US, grass-roots organizations are working to revitalize popular participation in disenfranchised communities by bringing ordinary people into public life. This book examines the techniques used to achieve these goals.

Author : Frank Hendriks
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 36,20 MB
Release : 2010-04-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 019957278X

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Vital Democracy outlines an innovative new theory of democracy in action.

Author : Steven Friedman
Publisher : Wits University Press
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 31,1 MB
Release : 2019-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1776143027

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Argues that South Africans, like everyone else, need democracy for a more equal society What are democracies meant to do? And how does one know when one is a democratic state? These incisive questions and more by leading political scientist, Steven Friedman, underlie this robust enquiry into what democracy means for South Africa post 1994. Democracy is often viewed through a lens reflecting Western understanding. New democracies are compared to idealized notions by which the system is said to operate in the global North. The democracies of Western Europe and North America are understood to be the finished product and all others are assessed by how far they have progressed towards approximating this model. Power in Action persuasively argues against this stereotype. Friedman asserts that democracies can only work when every adult has an equal say in the public decisions that affect them.Democracy is achieved not by adopting idealized models derived from other societies–rather, it is the product of collective action by citizens who claim the right to be heard not only through public protest action, but also through the conscious exercise of influence on public and private power holders. Viewing democracy in this way challenges us to develop a deeper understanding of democracy’s challenges and in so doing to ensure that more citizens can claim a say over more decisions in society.

Author : Richard C. Remy
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,95 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780078747625

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This program provides a behind-the-scenes look at Washington never before available in any government program.

Author : Vera Schatten Coelho
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 34,35 MB
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1848139152

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Mobilizing for Democracy is an in-depth study into how ordinary citizens and their organizations mobilize to deepen democracy. Featuring a collection of new empirical case studies from Angola, Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, this important new book illustrates how forms of political mobilization, such as protests, social participation, activism, litigation and lobbying, engage with the formal institutions of representative democracy in ways that are core to the development of democratic politics. No other volume has brought together examples from such a broad Southern spectrum and covering such a diversity of actors: rural and urban dwellers, transnational activists, religious groups, politicians and social leaders. The cases illuminate the crucial contribution that citizen mobilization makes to democratization and the building of state institutions, and reflect the uneasy relationship between citizens and the institutions that are designed to foster their political participation.

Author : Anne Wallace Sharp
Publisher : Greenhaven Publishing LLC
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 26,88 MB
Release : 2012-04-20
Category : Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN : 142050908X

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Author Anne Wallace Sharp describes the events that led up to and followed the historic Freedom Rides of 1961. The experiences of African Americans in the Jim Crow South, the stark inequality enforced with segregation laws, and the struggles of the budding civil rights movement are all discussed. Sharp recounts the experiences shared by the Freedom Riders as they faced oppression and violence, and describes how this event changed the course of American history.

Author : Benjamin I. Page
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 26,54 MB
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 022672493X

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America faces daunting problems—stagnant wages, high health care costs, neglected schools, deteriorating public services. How did we get here? Through decades of dysfunctional government. In Democracy in America? veteran political observers Benjamin I. Page and Martin Gilens marshal an unprecedented array of evidence to show that while other countries have responded to a rapidly changing economy by helping people who’ve been left behind, the United States has failed to do so. Instead, we have actually exacerbated inequality, enriching corporations and the wealthy while leaving ordinary citizens to fend for themselves. What’s the solution? More democracy. More opportunities for citizens to shape what their government does. To repair our democracy, Page and Gilens argue, we must change the way we choose candidates and conduct our elections, reform our governing institutions, and curb the power of money in politics. By doing so, we can reduce polarization and gridlock, address pressing challenges, and enact policies that truly reflect the interests of average Americans. Updated with new information, this book lays out a set of proposals that would boost citizen participation, curb the power of money, and democratize the House and Senate.

Author : Richard C. Remy
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
Page : 978 pages
File Size : 17,39 MB
Release : 1997-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780028220611

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My goal in writing this book is to help you develop the knowledge, skills, and ideals you need to protect your own freedom; to keep democracy alive in the United States. In the pages that follow you will find information to help you better understand how the machinery of representative government works and why it sometimes does not work. You will have the chance to develop skills for making sound judgments about public policy and for taking part in politics. And you will read about key principles of democracy such as majority rule with minority rights, free elections, and individual liberty. - A letter to students.