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Author : John Parkinson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 45,28 MB
Release : 2012-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107025397
A major new statement of deliberative theory that shows how states, even transnational systems, can be deliberatively democratic.
Author : Alexis de Tocqueville
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 750 pages
File Size : 15,87 MB
Release : 2023-08-27
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 3387004591
Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : B. Petric
Publisher : Springer
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 2012-10-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137032766
An analysis of the transnationalization of politics in several societies concerned by programs of democracy promotion, the contributors to this book seek to understand how these new global norms and programs create forms of appropriation and resistance at the local level.
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 48,43 MB
Release : 2005
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IFES published this quarterly magazine from 2004-2006 for scholars and practitioners interested in democratic development. Each issue addresses current affairs in the field of democracy promotion.
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 39,77 MB
Release : 2005
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IFES published this quarterly magazine from 2004-2006 for scholars and practitioners interested in democratic development. Each issue addresses current affairs in the field of democracy promotion.
Author : Christopher H. Achen
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 25,55 MB
Release : 2017-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400888743
Why our belief in government by the people is unrealistic—and what we can do about it Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the actual human nature of democratic citizens. Christopher Achen and Larry Bartels deploy a wealth of social-scientific evidence, including ingenious original analyses of topics ranging from abortion politics and budget deficits to the Great Depression and shark attacks, to show that the familiar ideal of thoughtful citizens steering the ship of state from the voting booth is fundamentally misguided. They demonstrate that voters—even those who are well informed and politically engaged—mostly choose parties and candidates on the basis of social identities and partisan loyalties, not political issues. They also show that voters adjust their policy views and even their perceptions of basic matters of fact to match those loyalties. When parties are roughly evenly matched, elections often turn on irrelevant or misleading considerations such as economic spurts or downturns beyond the incumbents' control; the outcomes are essentially random. Thus, voters do not control the course of public policy, even indirectly. Achen and Bartels argue that democratic theory needs to be founded on identity groups and political parties, not on the preferences of individual voters. Now with new analysis of the 2016 elections, Democracy for Realists provides a powerful challenge to conventional thinking, pointing the way toward a fundamentally different understanding of the realities and potential of democratic government.
Author : Hélène Landemore
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 15,47 MB
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691212392
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.
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 39,75 MB
Release : 2005
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IFES published this quarterly magazine from 2004-2006 for scholars and practitioners interested in democratic development. Each issue addresses current affairs in the field of democracy promotion.
Author : Vijayendra Rao
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 50,31 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107019745
Studies citizens' deliberation on governance and development in Indian democracy, and the influence of state policy and literacy, analysing three hundred village assemblies. This title is also available as Open Access.
Author : Frances Rosenbluth
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 32,29 MB
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300241054
How popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politics In recent decades, democracies across the world have adopted measures to increase popular involvement in political decisions. Parties have turned to primaries and local caucuses to select candidates; ballot initiatives and referenda allow citizens to enact laws directly; many places now use proportional representation, encouraging smaller, more specific parties rather than two dominant ones.Yet voters keep getting angrier.There is a steady erosion of trust in politicians, parties, and democratic institutions, culminating most recently in major populist victories in the United States, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. Frances Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro argue that devolving power to the grass roots is part of the problem. Efforts to decentralize political decision-making have made governments and especially political parties less effective and less able to address constituents’ long-term interests. They argue that to restore confidence in governance, we must restructure our political systems to restore power to the core institution of representative democracy: the political party.