[PDF] Democracys Good Name eBook

Author : Michael Mandelbaum
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 16,84 MB
Release : 2007-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1586486306

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The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most remarkable developments in history: the rapid rise of democracy around the world. In 1900, only ten countries were democracies and by 1975 there were only 30. Today, 119 of the world's 190 countries have adopted this form of government, and it is by far the most celebrated and prestigious one. How did democracy acquire its good name? Why did it spread so far and so fast? Why do important countries remain undemocratic? And why do efforts to export democracy so often fail and even make conditions worse? In Democracy's Good Name, Michael Mandelbaum, one of America's leading foreign policy thinkers, answers these questions. He surveys the methods and risks of promoting democracy, and analyzes the prospects for the establishment of democratic governments in Russia, China, and the Arab world. Written in Mandelbaum's clear and accessible style, Democracy's Good Name presents a lucid, comprehensive, and surprising account of the history and future of democracy from the American Revolution to the occupation of Iraq.

Author : BusinessNews Publishing,
Publisher : Primento
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 18,2 MB
Release : 2017-01-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 2511000563

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The must-read summary of Michael Mandelbaum's book: “Democracy's Good Name: The Rise and Risks of the World’s Most Popular Form of Government ”. This complete summary of "Democracy's Good Name" by Michael Mandelbaum, a renowned American writer and professor, provides an overview of his analysis of the reasons of the rise of democracy throughout the world and examination of the methods and risks of promoting democracy. Added-value of this summary: • Save time • Understand democracy and its full implications • Expand your knowledge of international politics To learn more, read "Democracy's Good Name" and discover Mandelbaum's assessment of democracy and how its outreach might impact global politics.

Author : Michael Mandelbaum
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 16,47 MB
Release : 2007-12-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1586486306

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The last thirty years have witnessed one of the most remarkable developments in history: the rapid rise of democracy around the world. In 1900, only ten countries were democracies and by 1975 there were only 30. Today, 119 of the world's 190 countries have adopted this form of government, and it is by far the most celebrated and prestigious one. How did democracy acquire its good name? Why did it spread so far and so fast? Why do important countries remain undemocratic? And why do efforts to export democracy so often fail and even make conditions worse? In Democracy's Good Name, Michael Mandelbaum, one of America's leading foreign policy thinkers, answers these questions. He surveys the methods and risks of promoting democracy, and analyzes the prospects for the establishment of democratic governments in Russia, China, and the Arab world. Written in Mandelbaum's clear and accessible style, Democracy's Good Name presents a lucid, comprehensive, and surprising account of the history and future of democracy from the American Revolution to the occupation of Iraq.

Author : Thomas Carothers
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 49,91 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 0520310055

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This is the first comprehensive, even-handed examination of U.S. policy in Latin America during the Reagan era. Drawing on interviews with U.S. officials and his own perspective as a former State Department lawyer, Thomas Carothers sheds new light on the much-discussed U.S. involvements in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Panama and turns up varied and often unexpected findings in less-studied countries such as Bolivia, Costa Rica, Paraguay, and Chile. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1991.

Author : Eric Anthony Beerbohm
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 11,75 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691154619

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When a government in a democracy acts in our name, are we, as citizens, responsible for those acts? What if the government commits a moral crime? The protestor's slogan--"Not in our name!"--testifies to the need to separate ourselves from the wrongs of our leaders. Yet the idea that individual citizens might bear a special responsibility for political wrongdoing is deeply puzzling for ordinary morality and leading theories of democracy. In Our Name explains how citizens may be morally exposed to the failures of their representatives and state institutions, and how complicity is the professional hazard of democratic citizenship. Confronting the ethical challenges that citizens are faced with in a self-governing democracy, Eric Beerbohm proposes institutional remedies for dealing with them. Beerbohm questions prevailing theories of democracy for failing to account for our dual position as both citizens and subjects. Showing that the obligation to participate in the democratic process is even greater when we risk serving as accomplices to wrongdoing, Beerbohm argues for a distinctive division of labor between citizens and their representatives that charges lawmakers with the responsibility of incorporating their constituents' moral principles into their reasoning about policy. Grappling with the practical issues of democratic decision making, In Our Name engages with political science, law, and psychology to envision mechanisms for citizens seeking to avoid democratic complicity.

Author : Jeremy Brecher
Publisher : Metropolitan Books
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 23,65 MB
Release : 2007-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1429900180

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A riveting documentary anthology that examines a deeply disturbing question: Is the United States guilty of war crimes in Iraq? Until recently, the possibility that the United States was responsible for war crimes seemed unthinkable to most Americans. But as previously suppressed information has started to emerge—photographs from Abu Ghraib; accounts of U.S. attacks on Iraqi hospitals, mosques, and residential neighborhoods; secret government reports defending unilateral aggression—Americans have begun an agonizing reappraisal of the Iraq war and the way in which their government has conducted it. Drawing on a wide range of documents—from the protocols of the Geneva Convention to FBI e-mails about prisoners held in Guantánamo Bay to executive-branch papers justifying the circumvention of international law—In the Name of Democracy examines the legality of the Iraq war and the occupation that followed. Included in this powerful investigation are eyewitness accounts, victim testimonials, statements by soldiers turned resisters and whistle-blowers, interviews with intelligence insiders, and contributions by Mark Danner and Seymour Hersh. The result is a controversial, chilling anthology that explores the culpability of officials as well as the responsibilities of ordinary citizens, and for the first time squarely confronts the matter of American impunity.

Author : Tom H. Carothers
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 18,62 MB
Release : 1991-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780520073197

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Examines U.S. policy in Latin America during the 1980s and discusses American involvement in Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Panama

Author : Jonathan Norcross
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 35,59 MB
Release : 2024-02-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 338534994X

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Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

Author : Amy Goodman
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 11,59 MB
Release : 2017-04-25
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1501123599

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"A celebration of the acclaimed television and radio news program Democracy Now! and the extraordinary movements and heroes who have moved our democracy forward. In 1996 Amy Goodman began hosting a show on Pacifica Radio called Democracy Now! to focus on the issues and movements that are too often ignored by the corporate media. Today Democracy Now! is the largest public media collaboration in the US, broadcasting on over 1,400 public television and radio stations around the world, with millions accessing it online at DemocracyNow.org. Now Amy, along with her journalist brother, David, and co-author Denis Moynihan, share stories of the heroes -- the whistleblowers, the organizers, the protesters -- who have brought about remarkable change. This important book looks back over the past two decades of Democracy Now! and the powerful movements and charismatic leaders who are re-shaping our world. Goodman takes the reader along as she goes to where the silence is, bringing out voices from the streets of Ferguson to Staten Island, Wall Street, South Carolina to East Timor -- and other places where people are rising up to demand justice. Democracy Now! is the modern day underground railroad of information, bringing stories from the grassroots to a global audience."--