[PDF] The Approach To Self Government eBook

Author : Ivor Jennings
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 33,71 MB
Release : 2011-06-09
Category : Law
ISBN : 052124191X

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This 1956 book followed in the tradition of Sir Ivor Jennings' earlier The British Constitution and is a clear statement by an expert with a characteristically practical point of view. It is principally concerned with a practical problem: what constitution shall be given to a new country about to govern itself for the first time?

Author : Adam Przeworski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 47,11 MB
Release : 2010-06-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521140110

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The book analyzes the sources of widespread dissatisfaction with democracies around the world and identifies directions for feasible reforms.

Author : Ruth Lane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : pages
File Size : 23,98 MB
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1316738159

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The Complexity of Self Government represents a revolutionary approach to political science. Bottom-up theory turns political and social analysis upside down by focusing analytic attention not on vacuous abstractions but on the individual men and women who either consciously or inadvertently create the institutions within which they live. Understanding this practical level of human activity is made possible through complexity theory, recently developed in computer models, but of wider use in understanding everyday human behaviour. To this complexity framework, the book adds social science to give life and colour to the analytical picture: micro-sociology from Garfinkel and Goffman, anthropology from Bourdieu, and non-technical game theory based on Thomas Schelling's microanalytics, to give rigour and bite. Theoretical examples include India's Mumbai, Iran, the marshes of southern Iraq, Berlusconi's Italy, backcountry China, Zimbabwe, and Nelson Mandela's revolution in South Africa.

Author : Alexander Meiklejohn
Publisher : The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 17,36 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Freedom of speech
ISBN : 1584770872

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Reprint of sole edition. Originally published: New York: Harper Brothers Publishers, [1948]. "Dr. Meiklejohn, in a book which greatly needed writing, has thought through anew the foundations and structure of our theory of free speech . . . he rejects all compromise. He reexamines the fundamental principles of Justice Holmes' theory of free speech and finds it wanting because, as he views it, under the Holmes doctrine speech is not free enough. In these few pages, Holmes meets an adversary worthy of him . . . Meiklejohn in his own way writes a prose as piercing as Holmes, and as a foremost American philosopher, the reach of his culture is as great . . . this is the most dangerous assault which the Holmes position has ever borne." --JOHN P. FRANK, Texas Law Review 27:405-412. ALEXANDER MEIKLEJOHN [1872-1964] was dean of Brown University from 1901-1913, when he became president of Amherst College. In 1923 Meiklejohn moved to the University of Wisconsin- Madison, where he set up an experimental college. He was a longtime member of the National Committee of the American Civil Liberties Union. In 1945 he was a United States delegate to the charter meeting of UNESCO in London. Lectureships have been named for him at Brown University and at the University of Wisconsin. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1963.