Debating Reform

Author : Richard J. Ellis,Michael Nelson
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781544390178

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Debating Reform by Richard J. Ellis,Michael Nelson Pdf

Getting students away from spouting opinions about highly-charged partisan issues, Debating Reform, Fourth Edition looks at key questions about reforming political institutions, with contributed pieces written by top scholars specifically for the volume. Each pro or con essay considers a concrete proposal for reforming the political system. By focusing on institutions, rather than liberal or conservative public policies, students tend to leave behind ideology and grapple with claims and evidence to draw their own conclusions and build their own arguments. Students will explore how institutions work in their American government text, but this reader helps them to understand how they can be made to work better.

Author : Richard J. Ellis,Michael Nelson
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781544390604

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Debating Reform by Richard J. Ellis,Michael Nelson Pdf

Getting students away from spouting opinions about highly-charged partisan issues, Debating Reform, Fourth Edition looks at key questions about reforming political institutions, with contributed pieces written by top scholars specifically for the volume. Each pro or con essay considers a concrete proposal for reforming the political system. By focusing on institutions, rather than liberal or conservative public policies, students tend to leave behind ideology and grapple with claims and evidence to draw their own conclusions and build their own arguments. Students will explore how institutions work in their American government text, but this reader helps them to understand how they can be made to work better.

Author : Richard J. Ellis
Publisher : CQ Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2013-01-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781452240022

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Debating Reform: Conflicting Perspectives on How to Fix the American Political System, 2nd Edition by Richard J. Ellis Pdf

Presenting a range of essays from top scholars in the field, this reader helps students to understand how American Government institutions can be made to work better.

Author : Beat Weber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107195813

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Democratizing Money? by Beat Weber Pdf

Weber provides an economic analysis of current, post-crash monetary reform proposals, including Bitcoin, sovereign money, regional money and modern monetary theory. The book critically examines these reform concepts, exposing their flaws and fallacies, guiding the reader towards a contemporary understanding of what money is and how it works today.

Author : Anthony Barnett,Caroline Ellis
Publisher : Wiley-Blackwell
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993-01-01
Category : Law
ISBN : 0745610811

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Debating the Constitution by Anthony Barnett,Caroline Ellis Pdf

Author : Allyson M. Lunny
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780774829625

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Debating Hate Crime by Allyson M. Lunny Pdf

Debating Hate Crime examines the language used by parliamentarians, senators, and committee witnesses to debate Canada’s hate laws. Drawing on discourse analysis, semiotics, and critical psychoanalysis, Allyson Lunny explores how the tropes, metaphors, and other linguistic signifiers used in these debates expose the particular concerns, trepidations, and anxieties of Canadian lawmakers and the expert witnesses called before their committees. Lunny reveals the meaning and social signification of the endorsement of, and resistance to, hate law. The result is a rich historical account of some of Canada’s most passionate public debates on victimization, rightful citizenship, social threat, and moral erosion.

Author : Mark E. Rush,Richard Lee Engstrom
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Law
ISBN : 0847692124

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Fair and Effective Representation? by Mark E. Rush,Richard Lee Engstrom Pdf

Two experts on political representation, voting rights, and the election process debate the most pertinent issues of electoral reform and assess them in the context of the Founders' vision of representation and minority rights. Mark E. Rush and Richard L. Engstrom discuss the promises and pitfalls of electoral reform--specifically, the merits of converting from the traditional single-member district to some form of proportional representation. The authors examine the shortcomings of the existing methods of elections (such as gerrymandering, low turnout, voter apathy, and underrepresentation of minorities and women), debate the merits of converting to proportional representation, ask whether it would address the imperfections of the current system, and investigate the extent to which proportional representation adheres to the Founders' (particularly Madison's) plan for representation. With an introduction by esteemed political scientist Bruce E. Cain, this is an essential text for courses in voting rights and behavior, elections, and American political thought.

Author : Suisheng Zhao
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317473305

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Debating Political Reform in China: Rule of Law vs. Democratization by Suisheng Zhao Pdf

The growing disconnect between China's market-oriented economy with its emerging civil society, and the brittle, anacronistic, and authoritarian state has given rise to intense discussion and debate about political reform, not only by Western observers, but also among Chinese intellectuals. While some expect China's political reform to lead to democratization, others have proposed to strengthen the institution of single-party rule and provide it with a solid legal base. This book brings the ongoing debate to life and explores the options for political reform. Offering the perspectives of both Western and Chinese scholars, it presents the controversial argument for building a consultive rule of law regime as an alternative to liberal democracy. It provides several critiques of this thesis, and then tests the thesis through empirical studies on the development of the rule of law in China.

Author : Nancy E. Bailey
Publisher : R&L Education
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-29
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781475803587

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Misguided Education Reform by Nancy E. Bailey Pdf

Misguided Education Reform: Debating the Impact on Students argues for reforms that will help, not hurt, America’s public school students. Early childhood education, testing, reading, special education, discipline, loss of the arts, and school facilities, are all areas experiencing reform in the wrong direction. This book says “no” to the reforms that fail, and challenges Americans to address the real student needs that will fix public schools and make America strong.

Author : Laura J. Snyder
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780226767352

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Reforming Philosophy by Laura J. Snyder Pdf

The Victorian period in Britain was an “age of reform.” It is therefore not surprising that two of the era’s most eminent intellects described themselves as reformers. Both William Whewell and John Stuart Mill believed that by reforming philosophy—including the philosophy of science—they could effect social and political change. But their divergent visions of this societal transformation led to a sustained and spirited controversy that covered morality, politics, science, and economics. Situating their debate within the larger context of Victorian society and its concerns, Reforming Philosophy shows how two very different men captured the intellectual spirit of the day and engaged the attention of other scientists and philosophers, including the young Charles Darwin. Mill—philosopher, political economist, and Parliamentarian—remains a canonical author of Anglo-American philosophy, while Whewell—Anglican cleric, scientist, and educator—is now often overlooked, though in his day he was renowned as an authority on science. Placing their teachings in their proper intellectual, cultural, and argumentative spheres, Laura Snyder revises the standard views of these two important Victorian figures, showing that both men’s concerns remain relevant today. A philosophically and historically sensitive account of the engagement of the major protagonists of Victorian British philosophy, Reforming Philosophy is the first book-length examination of the dispute between Mill and Whewell in its entirety. A rich and nuanced understanding of the intellectual spirit of Victorian Britain, it will be welcomed by philosophers and historians of science, scholars of Victorian studies, and students of the history of philosophy and political economy.

Author : Carol Miller Swain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780521698665

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Debating Immigration by Carol Miller Swain Pdf

Includes statistical tables and graphs.

Author : Laurent Bernhard,Flavia Fossati,Regula Hänggli,Hanspeter Kriesi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 351 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108497510

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Debating Unemployment Policy by Laurent Bernhard,Flavia Fossati,Regula Hänggli,Hanspeter Kriesi Pdf

Considers the policy debates surrounding unemployment in Western Europe after the outbreak of the Great Recession.

Author : Joshua Woods,C. Damien Arthur
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498535229

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Debating Immigration in the Age of Terrorism, Polarization, and Trump by Joshua Woods,C. Damien Arthur Pdf

Debating Immigration utilizes a theoretically informed framework for analyzing the multifaceted immigration debate before and after 9/11 in the age of terrorism, political polarization, and authoritarianism.

Author : Barbara Dennis,David Skilton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317268659

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Reform and Intellectual Debate in Victorian England by Barbara Dennis,David Skilton Pdf

First published in 1987. Readers of Victorian literature, both poetry and prose, are constantly aware of a powerful undercurrent of change - political, social, and intellectual - which determines the shape of the literature being produced. Topics covered include parliamentary reform, the Gentleman, religious debate and secular thought, education; leisure and attitudes to the arts, and the Woman Question. This title will be of interest to students of history.

Author : Amanda Goodrich
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Aristocracy (Social class)
ISBN : 0861932757

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Debating England's Aristocracy in the 1790s by Amanda Goodrich Pdf

The 1790s saw a lively `French Revolution Debate' in England, with much space and intellectual energy, in classic texts by men such as Burke and Paine, and ensuing pamphlet literature, devoted characterisations and representations of the aristocracy; yet this is the first full-scale survey of the subject. Dr Goodrich takes a fresh approach to the topic, illustrating the complexities of the bitter battle fought out in such texts between radicals and loyalists, and highlighting the persistent viciousness and vitriol of a radical anti-aristocratic rhetoric. However, she demonstrates that the loyalist response contained the more innovative campaign, bringing out in particular the development of a commercial loyalism which promoted a new model of society with a modern aristocracy and an open elite; what emerges are English defences of aristocracy which are not simply reducible to ideas of an ancien régime or a Gothic institution.