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Author : Michael J. Sheeran
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Group decision making
ISBN : UCSC:32106019546792
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1948434016
Author : Adam Jentleson
Publisher : Liveright Publishing
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781631497780
With a new epilogue on filibuster battles under the Biden administration THE CASE FOR ENDING THE FILIBUSTER "A truly excellent book… blistering and persuasive.” —Ezra Klein, New York Times An insider’s account of how politicians representing a radical white minority of Americans have used “the world’s greatest deliberative body” to hijack our democracy. Our democracy is under assault from homegrown authoritarians, with most observers blaming Donald Trump and the Republican Party that submitted to him. Yet as Adam Jentleson shows, the problem not only goes back to the nineteenth century, but is less about the presidency than it is about our nation’s most venerated institution: the United States Senate. A revelatory history of minority rule in America as expressed through the Senate filibuster, Kill Switch shows that white conservatives have long relied on the filibuster—which is not featured in the Constitution, and which, as Jentleson demonstrates, the Framers would have opposed—to shut down attempts to create a multiracial democracy. Featuring a new epilogue on filibuster battles under the Biden administration, Kill Switch will remain an essential warning about the costs of empowering this nation’s right-wing minority. • “Jentleson understands the inner workings of the institution, down to the most granular details, showing precisely how arcane procedural rules can be leveraged to dramatic effect.” —Jennifer Szalai, New York Times • “Careful and thorough and exacting.” —Michael Tomasky, New York Review of Books • “[An] excellent, surprising new book.” —Benjamin Wallace-Wells, The New Yorker
Author : James H. Read
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132232732
This text sheds light on the promise and limitations of democracy, showing that, despite the failure of Calhoun's remedy, his diagnosis of the potential injustice of majority rule must be taken seriously.
Author : Julia McMeans
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 1502631970
Today, many votes are decided by majority rules. Likewise, many people are protected by minority rights. This book examines both concepts, explains what they mean, what the Constitution says about them, and how they can be practiced in everyday situations.
Author : James Bohman,William Rehg
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 484 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0262522411
The contributions in this anthology address tensions that arise between reason and politics in a democracy inspired by the ideal of achieving reasoned agreement among free and equal citizens.
Author : Roger Fleming
Publisher : Elderberry Press (OR)
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-06-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1934956643
Little does Nick Taft know when he arrives to serve his Congressman in Washington, he would stumble upon a human smuggling cartel insulated by powerful Capitol Hill interests. He soon falls for the beguiling Lisa Castile, an ambitious staffer of the opposing party who works for a committee chairman with suspect ties to the trafficking venture. The relationship of these two opposites and the enterprise they unveil trails immigration reform legislation, controlled by the nefarious chairman. The young staffers find themselves swept into a Justice Department investigation of the illegal operation, uncertain as to whether it is to deter them or protect them. Majority Rules moves the reader through the halls of Congress with an insider's view of currently relevant political history. In between colorful power schemes, the story highlights the majority/minority mindset that has entrapped Washington for decades.
Author : Peter Emerson
Publisher : Springer
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2016-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319235004
This book discusses voting procedures in collective decision-making. Drawing on well-established election processes from all over the world, the author presents a voting procedure that allows for the speedy but fair election of a proportional, all-party coalition. The methodology - a matrix vote - is accurate, robust and ethno-color blind. In the vote, the counting procedure encourages all concerned to cross the gender as well as any party and/or sectarian divides. While in the resulting executive each party will be represented fairly and, at best, with the consensus of parliament, every minister will be the one most suited to his/her new portfolio. By using preferential voting and thus achieving consensus, the matrix vote will be fundamental to the resolution of conflicts. The matrix vote can also be used when: • two or more parliamentary parties elect a coalition government • one parliamentary party elects a government or shadow cabinet, or organizations in civil society elect their governing boards or executive committees • any group chooses a fixed number of individuals to form a team in which each member carries out a different function
Author : Paul Woodruff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195304541
This brilliant analysis of the nature of democracy draws on the hard-earned lessons of the ancient Greeks.
Author : Henry S. Richardson
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Law
ISBN : 0195150910
Henry Richardson builds a convincing case for a qualified populism and for a strong form of deliberative democracy based on liberal and republican premises.
Author : William Lynn Ransom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:422278647
Author : Paul A. Thomas
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781538163221
Wikipedia is one of the most visited websites on the Internet, regularly bringing in millions of readers a day. But how exactly does a huge site like this work? What are its strengths? What are its weaknesses? Who edits the site? And perhaps most importantly how can you, the reader, help make the site better? In this book, Paul A. Thomas—a seasoned Wikipedia contributor who has accrued almost 60,000 edits since he started editing in 2007—breaks down the history of the free encyclopedia and explains the process of becoming an editor. Chapters include: The History of Wikipedia The Wiki-Ethos: What to Know Before You Edit Getting Started: Making Your First Edits Growing as an Editor: To Wikitext and Beyond Concrete Ways to Make Wikipedia a Better Resource Becoming a Critical Editor: Countering Bias A Short Glossary of Wiki-Slang After reading Inside Wikipedia, you will be ready to contribute to the largest, most comprehensive knowledge base the world has ever seen. What will you write about?
Author : Gerard Vanderhaar
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781725233294
Apocalyptic voices grow louder as we enter the new Millennium, promising dire consequences for the fate of humanity, our planet and our civilization. But theirs are not the only voices around. There are voices that are equally strong and full of hope, courage and conviction. Gerard Vanderhaar's voice is not apocalyptic, but prophetic and full of passion. He proposes a new direction, one that will lead to a more workable world - that of the Nonviolent Christ. Vanderhaar shows how figures like Mahatma Gandhi, Martin Luther King, Dorothy Day and others have taken the example of the Nonviolent Christ as their guide for living and working justly and courageously in the world. He then offers suggestions for incorporating gestures of peace and words of compassion and justice into our daily dealings at home, at work, with difficult people, and as part of the political process. He also shows how our attitudes toward money, time and people can deeply influence our effectiveness in working for a better future.
Author : Harold J. Spaeth,Jeffrey A. Segal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2001-02-19
Category : History
ISBN : 0521805716
Examines the influence of precedent on the behavior of the US Supreme Court justices.
Author : John B. Judis,Ruy Teixeira
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2004-02-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780743254786
ONE OF THE ECONOMIST'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR AND A WINNER OF THE WASHINGTON MONTHLY'S ANNUAL POLITICAL BOOK AWARD Political experts John B. Judis and Ruy Teixeira convincingly use hard data -- demographic, geographic, economic, and political -- to forecast the dawn of a new progressive era. In the 1960s, Kevin Phillips, battling conventional wisdom, correctly foretold the dawn of a new conservative era. His book, The Emerging Republican Majority, became an indispensable guide for all those attempting to understand political change through the 1970s and 1980s. At the beginning of the twenty-first century, with the country in Republican hands, The Emerging Democratic Majority is the indispensable guide to this era. In five well-researched chapters and a new afterword covering the 2002 elections, Judis and Teixeira show how the most dynamic and fastest-growing areas of the country are cultivating a new wave of Democratic voters who embrace what the authors call "progressive centrism" and take umbrage at Republican demands to privatize social security, ban abortion, and cut back environmental regulations. As the GOP continues to be dominated by neoconservatives, the religious right, and corporate influence, this is an essential volume for all those discontented with their narrow agenda -- and a clarion call for a new political order.