Democracy Reconsidered

Author : Elizabeth Kaufer Busch
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780739139738

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Democracy Reconsidered provides an enlightening study of democracy in America's post-modern context. Elizabeth Kaufer Busch and Peter Augustine Lawler explore some of the foundational principles of democracy as they have been borne out in American society. The essays included in this volume examine the lessons that novelists, philosophers, and political theorists have for democratic societies as they progress towards postmodern skepticism or even disbelief in the absolute principles that form the foundation of democracies. Led by the provocative observations of Lawler, a member of President Bush's Council on Bioethics, the first section lays out the predicament caused by the gravitation of democracy towards a disbelief in absolute truth, leading to a 'crisis of self-evidence.' The second section searches for tools that one might use to restore health to the individual and community within American democracy, including spiritual faith, creative autonomy, and philosophic inquiry. The third section addresses the supposed 'crisis in liberal education' caused by our 'crisis of self-evidence.' Included essays explore the extent to which the professed aims of liberal education may be at odds with the cultivation of dutiful citizens. The book closes by considering some of the political consequences of employing content-less freedom as the primary standard by which human behaviour is judged.

Author : Charles T. Rubin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0847697177

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Conservation Reconsidered by Charles T. Rubin Pdf

The prominent contributors in Conservation Reconsidered establish a fundamentally original view of the conservation movement and the impact of public policy on nature. This collection of essays articulate the belief that the thinkers and actors who helped develop the conservation movement-notably John Muir, Theodore Roosevelt, Gifford Pinchot and Aldo Leopold-have been seriously misunderstood by scholars who have analyzed them in the context of contemporary environmental debates. Conservationism, the contributors argue, was a diverse movement dealing with difficult questions about the relationship of human beings to nature in a modern liberal democratic state. The essays place conservationism within the framework of 19th century American political thinkers including Darwin, Emerson, Thoreau and Olmsted, and they illuminate perennial questions about citizenship and our place in the natural world. Conservation Reconsidered takes a new look at what is problematic about the legacy of American conservationism and explores worthy alternatives to the dominant environmentalist thinking of today.

Author : Lukas K. Sosoe
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3825846873

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Democracy reconsidered by Lukas K. Sosoe Pdf

Author : Jim Garrison,Stefan Neubert,Kersten Reich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317380535

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Democracy and Education Reconsidered by Jim Garrison,Stefan Neubert,Kersten Reich Pdf

Democracy and Education Reconsidered highlights the continued relevance of John Dewey’s Democracy and Education while also examining the need to reconstruct and re-contextualize Dewey’s educational philosophy for our time. The authors propose ways of revising Dewey’s thought in light of the challenges facing contemporary education and society, and address other themes not touched upon heavily in Dewey’s work, such as racism, feminism, post-industrial capitalism, and liquid modernity. As a final component, the authors integrate Dewey’s philosophy with more recent trends in scholarship, including pragmatism, post-structuralism, and the works of other key philosophers and scholars.

Author : George E. Marcus,Russell L. Hanson
Publisher : Penn State University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015026972367

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Reconsidering the Democratic Public by George E. Marcus,Russell L. Hanson Pdf

This book offers a re-examination of the evidence about citizens' capacity for self-governance and what it means for the future of democratic politics, from both empirical and normative perspectives. Are ordinary citizens capable of governing themselves? For more than three decades, social scientists have accumulated evidence of the undemocratic propensities of many ordinary citizens. This has caused some to worry about the stability of existing democratic institutions, while others argue that the institutions themselves are the problem: politics needs to be democratized further, giving citizens more opportunities to practice democratic politics and acquire democratic values. The thirty-three contributors to this volume enter this debate with new evidence on citizens' capacity for deliberative politics. They argue that previous methods of investigation significantly underestimate people's ability to govern themselves, and that the prospects for democracy are better than conventional wisdom suggests. Realization of these prospects will depend on citizens grasping the interplay of emotions and reason in political life, creating new opportunities for citizen deliberation, and reinvigorating the institutions of representative government. Theories of democracy in turn will have to accommodate this changing reality as citizens show themselves to be self-determining in their political activities.

Author : Jim Garrison,Stefan Neubert,Kersten Reich
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317380542

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Democracy and Education Reconsidered by Jim Garrison,Stefan Neubert,Kersten Reich Pdf

Democracy and Education Reconsidered highlights the continued relevance of John Dewey’s Democracy and Education while also examining the need to reconstruct and re-contextualize Dewey’s educational philosophy for our time. The authors propose ways of revising Dewey’s thought in light of the challenges facing contemporary education and society, and address other themes not touched upon heavily in Dewey’s work, such as racism, feminism, post-industrial capitalism, and liquid modernity. As a final component, the authors integrate Dewey’s philosophy with more recent trends in scholarship, including pragmatism, post-structuralism, and the works of other key philosophers and scholars.

Author : Hans Agné
Publisher : Almqvist & Wiksell International
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015066828685

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Author : Carole Pateman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 052129004X

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Participation and Democratic Theory by Carole Pateman Pdf

Shows that current elitist theories are based on an inadequate understanding of the early writings of democratic theory and that much sociological evidence has been ignored.

Author : O. Encarnación
Publisher : Springer
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781403981646

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The Myth of Civil Society by O. Encarnación Pdf

Almost irrespective of the geographic setting, the debate about the future of democracy in post-authoritarian societies is increasingly tied to the strength of civil society. A strong civil society is thought to be crucial to the emergence of successful democracies while a weak civil society is deemed the cause of flawed or frozen democracies. Using contrasting evidence from Spain and Brazil, this study challenges these widespread assumptions about contemporary democratization. It argues that it is the performance of political institutions rather than the configuration of civil society that determines the consolidation of democratic regimes.

Author : Patrick M. Jenlink
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781607091240

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Dewey's Democracy and Education Revisited by Patrick M. Jenlink Pdf

This book presents a collection of contemporary discourses that reconsider the relationship of democracy as a political ideology and American ideal (i.e., Dewey's progressivist ideas) and education as the foundation of preparing democratic citizens in America.

Author : Jeffrey C. Alexander,Elizabeth Butler Breese,Marîa Luengo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 317 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-20
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781107085251

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The Crisis of Journalism Reconsidered by Jeffrey C. Alexander,Elizabeth Butler Breese,Marîa Luengo Pdf

This collection of original essays interrogates the 'crisis of journalism' narrative from a dramatically different perspective.

Author : Jeffrey Friedman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2016-02-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317661177

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The Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion Reconsidered by Jeffrey Friedman Pdf

In the Nature and Origins of Mass Opinion (1992), John Zaller set out one of the most influential models of opinion formation: he presented the public as a pliable instrument of political elites, who are able to garner support simply by sending "cues" through the mass media telling Republicans or Democrats, for example, what "the" Republican or Democratic position is on a given issue. Contributors to this volume critically examine Zaller’s model and its implications, empirical and normative. The introduction contrasts two different strands in Zaller’s book, one of which confines the impact of media messages to politicians’ cues, the other of which emphasizes the impact of journalists’ interpretive frames. Other chapters examine whether elite domination of public opinion is desirable and assess how well Zaller’s model has withstood two decades of research. Zaller himself contributes a long retrospective in which he modifies some claims, defends others, and sets out a bold new research agenda. This book was published as a special issue of Critical Review: A Journal of Politics and Society.

Author : John R. Hibbing,Elizabeth Theiss-Morse
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002-08-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521009863

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Stealth Democracy by John R. Hibbing,Elizabeth Theiss-Morse Pdf

Americans often complain about the operation of their government, but scholars have never developed a complete picture of people's preferred type of government. In this provocative and timely book, Hibbing and Theiss-Morse, employing an original national survey and focus groups, report the governmental procedures Americans desire. Contrary to the prevailing view that people want greater involvement in politics, most citizens do not care about most policies and therefore are content to turn over decision-making authority to someone else. People's wish for the political system is that decision makers be empathetic and, especially, non-self-interested, not that they be responsive and accountable to the people's largely nonexistent policy preferences or, even worse, that the people be obligated to participate directly in decision making. Hibbing and Theiss-Morse conclude by cautioning communitarians, direct democrats, social capitalists, deliberation theorists, and all those who think that greater citizen involvement is the solution to society's problems.

Author : Bruce Morrisons
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1138708097

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Transnational Democracy in Critical and Comparative Perspective by Bruce Morrisons Pdf

This title was first published in 2003.This text brings together two themes of enormous current intellectual and emotional impact: democracy and its institutional forms and the globalization of economic, social and cultural affairs. The volume pursues the meaning of transnational democracy through an examination of the sources of novel democratic potential at multiple levels, from the local to the global. To a very great extent, this task depends upon a critical analysis of state and nation formation, state-level democratization and transnational social movement emergence. In engaging these complex issues, the authors find themselves drawn into intellectual and geographic territories as diverse as European institutional and intellectual history, North American and European trade agreements, Canadian constitutionalism, African state-society relations and debates regarding the democratic peace. While the coverage is global in its attention to transnational institutions and international non-governmental organizations for instance, it is also genuinely regional, as it seeks out - and critically assesses - the potential building blocks for a more appropriately democratic future in the varied forms that the institutionalization of globalization assumes around the world.

Author : Gary Marks,Larry Jay Diamond
Publisher : SAGE Publications, Incorporated
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1992-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015021569440

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Reexamining Democracy by Gary Marks,Larry Jay Diamond Pdf

Seymour Martin Lipset is one of the best known and most prolific social scientists this century. These comprehensive essays pay tribute to his scholarship by exploring his core theme: the conditions, problems, dynamics, values and institutions of democracy, both in the US and throughout the world. Published originally as a Special Issue of The American Behavioral Scientist, Reexamining Democracy is devoted to rethinking the character and development of democracy worldwide. The contributors offer fascinating perspectives on an ever-potent and compelling social force.