Democracy In Theory And Practice

Author : Frederick G. Whelan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351205856

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Democracy in Theory and Practice by Frederick G. Whelan Pdf

Democracy in Theory and Practice presents an authoritative overview of democratic theory today. Its distinctive approach links theory to practice, emphasizing the wide variety of institutions and procedures through which core democratic principles are implemented and the normative and practical dimensions of the choices to be made among these alternatives. Designed for courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level, the book features eighteen chapters organized thematically and divided into sections and subsections for easy reference; historical and current examples, citations for specific ideas, annotated references, and further readings throughout enhance the volume's utility for students, scholars, and researchers. Sidebars give biographical sketches of classic theorists and democratic ideas from the US founders and constitutional tradition. Featured topics discussed include: Majority Rule; Participation; Deliberation; Accountability; Representation; Constitutionalism; Electoral Laws; Parties; Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Functions. The Boundary Problem; The "All-Affected" Principle; Contested Senses of Liberal and Procedural Democracy; The Pros and Cons of Term Limits; Proportional Representation; Referendums; Problems of Democratic Transparency and Reversibility. Written by a leading authority in the field, Frederick G. Whelan encourages us to think of the many alternative ways of putting democracy into practice and of these alternatives as requiring choices. This diversity means that there is no unique or correct democratic outcome from a given set of preferences, since outcomes are shaped by the methods followed in reaching them.

Author : Stephen Elstub
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 119 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135703486

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Democracy in Theory and Practice by Stephen Elstub Pdf

Democracy is an issue of major importance in theory and practice in politics throughout the world. However, democracy’s study and advancement has been significantly compromised by a dichotomy between theorising about democracy, and empirical studies of democracy in practice. In addition to highlighting the need for this gap to be overcome, this book contributes to overcoming this divide, by demonstrating a number of ways that democracy in theory and practice can be synthesised; deepening our understanding of the relationship between democracy in theory and practice in the process. Different, but related, democratic principles and concepts are considered such as legitimacy, political equality, deliberation, and participation. A range of practical contexts are also investigated including multi-level polities, deeply divided societies, whole polities, local rural and urban areas, and a range of democratic processes, innovations and spectacular events. Moreover, the book sets the agenda for future work to combine democracy in theory and practice. This book was originally published as a special issue of Representation.

Author : Subrata Mukherjee,Sushila Ramaswamy
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2005-02
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1403924961

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Democracy in Theory and Practice by Subrata Mukherjee,Sushila Ramaswamy Pdf

The book examines the origin and evolution of democracy from the ancient to modern times both comprehensively and analytically. In this context, the importance of both India and China have been highlighted along with contributions made by the Greeks and t

Author : Mary Fran T. Malone
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781441183255

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Achieving Democracy by Mary Fran T. Malone Pdf

Democracy is the ability to participate freely and equally in the political and economic affairs of the country. Americans have relied on philosophical pragmatism and on the impulse of political progressivism to express those creedal democratic values. Achieving Democracy argues that, in the last 30 years, however, by focusing on free markets and small government, America has since lost its grasp on these crucial democratic values. Economically, the vast majority of Americans have been made worse off due to a historically unprecedented redistribution of wealth from the lower and middle classes to the top one percent. Politically, partisan gridlock has hampered efforts to seek fairer taxes, responsive and effective regulation, reliable health care, and better education, among other needs. Achieving Democracy critiques the history of the last 30 years of neoliberal government in the United States, and enables an understanding of the dynamic and changing nature of contemporary government and the future of the regulatory state. Sidney A. Shapiro and Joseph P. Tomain demonstrate how lessons from the past can be applied today to regain essential democratic losses within the successful framework of a progressive government to ultimately construct a good society for all citizens.

Author : Robert J. Cavalier
Publisher : Carnegie-Mellon University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Deliberative democracy
ISBN : 0887485375

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Approaching Deliberative Democracy by Robert J. Cavalier Pdf

A collection of articles on the theory and practice of deliberative democracy edited by Robert Cavalier.

Author : Kenneth L Hacker,Jan van Dijk
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2000-12-05
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781446264829

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Digital Democracy by Kenneth L Hacker,Jan van Dijk Pdf

Increasing attention is being paid to the political uses of the new communication technologies. Digital Democracy offers an invaluable in-depth explanation of what issues of theory and application are most important to the emergence and development of computer-mediated communication systems for political purposes. The book provides a wide-ranging critical examination of the concept of virtual democracy as discussed in theory and as implemented in practice and policy that has been hitherto unavailable. It addresses how the Internet, World Wide Web and computer-mediated political communication are affecting democracy and focuses on the various theoretical and practical issues involved in digital democracy. Using international examples Digital Democracy attempts to connect theoretical analysis to considerations of practice and policy.

Author : Stephen Elstub
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:741223244

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Democracy in Theory and Practice by Stephen Elstub Pdf

Author : Duncan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1983-04-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521242096

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Democratic Theory and Practice by Duncan Pdf

In past decades, democratic theory has been on the defensive, largely as a result of the disappointments of democratic practice. The essays in this volume reflect critically on the theory in the light of those failures and with the corresponding assumption of an indissoluble connection between theory and practice. If theory maintains a monastic impeccability, untouched by the world, it will be sterile and fit merely for arid disputes. Nor can practice stand alone: it varies and changes and is subject to different interpretations. Success will come to it partly through the impact of empirical and prescriptive analysis. The volume is organised in sections, dealing in turn with the changing meanings and evaluations of democracy with classical theories with the revisions and critiques of these theories deriving from existing circumstances and with attempts to extend and to consolidate more adequate and secure theories of democracy. Among the thinkers considered are Mill, de Tocqueville, Marx and Marcuse, while the topics include bureaucracy, feminism, corporatism and social democracy. Together the essays will provide comprehensive review of the past condition and future prospects for democratic theory in practice.

Author : Michael A. Neblo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107027671

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Deliberative Democracy between Theory and Practice by Michael A. Neblo Pdf

This book offers a model to bridge the differences between political theorists and social scientists, focusing on deliberative practices.

Author : Arend Lijphart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781135980306

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Thinking about Democracy by Arend Lijphart Pdf

This book draws on Professor Arend Lijphart’s lifetime experience of research and publication in democracy and comparative politics and collects together for the first time his most significant and influential work.

Author : David Kahane,Daniel Weinstock,Dominique Leydet,Melissa Williams
Publisher : UBC Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780774859080

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Deliberative Democracy in Practice by David Kahane,Daniel Weinstock,Dominique Leydet,Melissa Williams Pdf

Deliberative democracy is a dominant paradigm in normative political philosophy. Deliberative democrats want politics to be more than a clash of contending interests, and they believe political decisions should emerge from reasoned dialogue among citizens. But can these ideals be realized in complex and unjust societies? This book brings together leading scholars who explore debates in deliberative democratic theory in four areas of practice: education, constitutions and state boundaries, indigenous-settler relations, and citizen participation and public consultation. This dynamic volume casts new light on the strengths and limitations of deliberative democratic theory, offering guidance to policy makers and to students and scholars interested in democratic justice.

Author : Sungmoon Kim
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107049031

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Confucian Democracy in East Asia by Sungmoon Kim Pdf

Confucian Democracy in East Asia explores the unique Confucian reasoning that still exists in much of East Asian culture.

Author : Gregory Tardi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 768 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Administrative law
ISBN : 0779873254

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The Theory and Practice of Political Law by Gregory Tardi Pdf

Author : Sanford A Lakoff
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 611 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429973611

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Democracy by Sanford A Lakoff Pdf

This book reviews the historical development of democracy and the backlash against it, the theoretical character of modern democracy, the practical problems of establishing and maintaining democracy, and the meaning of democracy and its prospects.

Author : Paul Lucardie
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2013-12-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317934073

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Democratic Extremism in Theory and Practice by Paul Lucardie Pdf

Democracy and extremism are usually considered as opposites. We assume that our system (in the UK, the USA, the Netherlands etc.) is democratic, and extremists try to destroy our system and introduce some kind of dictatorship, if not chaos and anarchy. Yet in many cases, the extremists seem sincere in their attempt to construct a more democratic polity. Hence, they can be called democrats and yet also extremists, in so far as they strive for a regime with characteristics that are more extreme in a significant sense. This book analyses radical and extreme democratic theories and ideas in their historical context, interlocked with critical descriptions of historical institutions and experiments that help to evaluate the theories. Cases range from ancient Athens to recent experiments with citizen juries and citizen assemblies, from the time-honoured Swiss Landsgemeinde to contemporary (and controversial) workers’ councils in Venezuela and participatory budgeting in Porto Alegre. Among the theorists discussed here are familiar names as well as relatively unknown persons: Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Karl Marx, Murray Bookchin and John Burnheim, William Godwin and Barbara Goodwin, Anton Pannekoek and Heinz Dieterich. Whereas the extreme ideas do not seem to work very well in practice, they do indicate ways by which we could make existing political systems more democratic. This book will be of interest to students of Politics and Current Affairs, as well as inspiration to political activists and reformists.