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Author : Andrew Karch
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472069682
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Author : Jacob Grumbach
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691218465
As national political fights are waged at the state level, democracy itself pays the price Over the past generation, the Democratic and Republican parties have each become nationally coordinated political teams. American political institutions, on the other hand, remain highly decentralized. Laboratories against Democracy shows how national political conflicts are increasingly flowing through the subnational institutions of state politics—with profound consequences for public policy and American democracy. Jacob Grumbach argues that as Congress has become more gridlocked, national partisan and activist groups have shifted their sights to the state level, nationalizing state politics in the process and transforming state governments into the engines of American policymaking. He shows how this has had the ironic consequence of making policy more varied across the states as red and blue party coalitions implement increasingly distinct agendas in areas like health care, reproductive rights, and climate change. The consequences don’t stop there, however. Drawing on a wealth of new data on state policy, public opinion, money in politics, and democratic performance, Grumbach traces how national groups are using state governmental authority to suppress the vote, gerrymander districts, and erode the very foundations of democracy itself. Required reading for this precarious moment in our politics, Laboratories against Democracy reveals how the pursuit of national partisan agendas at the state level has intensified the challenges facing American democracy, and asks whether today’s state governments are mitigating the political crises of our time—or accelerating them.
Author : David Pepper
Publisher : St. Helena Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781662919589
“It’s the statehouses, stupid.” Laboratories of Autocracy shows that far more than the high-profile antics of politicians like Marjorie Taylor Greene or Jim Jordan—and yes, even bigger than Donald Trump’s "Big Lie”—it’s anonymous, often corrupt politicians in statehouses across the country who pose the greatest dangers to American democracy. Because these statehouses no longer operate as functioning democracies, these unknown politicians have all the incentive to keep doing greater damage, and can not be held accountable however extreme they get. This has driven steep declines in states like Ohio and others across the country. And collectively, it’s placed American democracy in its greatest peril since the dawn of the Jim Crow era. But Pepper doesn’t stop there. He lays out a robust pro-democracy agenda outlining how everyone from elected officials to business leaders to everyday citizens can fight back.
Author : Andrew Karch
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472069683
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Author : David Osborne
Publisher : Harvard Business Review Press
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Competition, International
ISBN : UCAL:B4385162
Author : Benjamin J. Hurlbut
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2017-01-31
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780231542913
Human embryo research touches upon strongly felt moral convictions, and it raises such deep questions about the promise and perils of scientific progress that debate over its development has become a moral and political imperative. From in vitro fertilization to embryonic stem cell research, cloning, and gene editing, Americans have repeatedly struggled with how to define the moral status of the human embryo, whether to limit its experimental uses, and how to contend with sharply divided public moral perspectives on governing science. Experiments in Democracy presents a history of American debates over human embryo research from the late 1960s to the present, exploring their crucial role in shaping norms, practices, and institutions of deliberation governing the ethical challenges of modern bioscience. J. Benjamin Hurlbut details how scientists, bioethicists, policymakers, and other public figures have attempted to answer a question of great consequence: how should the public reason about aspects of science and technology that effect fundamental dimensions of human life? Through a study of one of the most significant science policy controversies in the history of the United States, Experiments in Democracy paints a portrait of the complex relationship between science and democracy, and of U.S. society's evolving approaches to evaluating and governing science's most challenging breakthroughs.
Author : Heather K. Gerken
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2009-04-05
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780691136943
In this lucid and lively book, Gerken diagnoses what is wrong with the American election process and proposes a radically new and simple solution: a democracy index that would rate the performance of state and local election systems.
Author : Bargu Banu Bargu
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Political violence
ISBN : 9781474450294
This book makes a strong case that Turkey's regime and its vicissitudes are dependent on a necropolitical undercurrent. Building on the insights of critical and contemporary theory, the essays address the multiple ways in which lives are brought into the fold of power. Once there, they are subjected to mechanisms of death and destruction, and to modalities of infrastructural violence, strategic neglect and exposure. This produces new forms of impoverishment, inequality and disposability. Bringing together historical, discursive, and ethnographic approaches from multiple disciplines, this collection offers a sobering and original analysis of contemporary Turkey.
Author : Brendan Boyd,Andrea Olive
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Canadian provinces
ISBN : 1487539118
"Canada's federal system, composed of ten provincial governments and three territories, all with varying economies and political cultures, is often blamed for the country's failure to develop coordinated policy responses to key issues. But in other federal and multi-level governance systems, the ability of multiple governments to test a variety of policy responses has been lauded as an effective way to build local and national policy. Despite high-profile examples of policy diffusion in Canada, there is surprisingly little academic study of policy learning and diffusion among provinces. Featuring cutting edge research, Provincial Policy Laboratories explores the cross-jurisdictional movement of policies among governments in Canada's federal system. The book is comprised of case studies in a range of emerging policy areas, including parentage rights, hydraulic fracturing regulations, species at risk legislation, sales and aviation taxation, and marijuana policy. Throughout, the contributors aim to increase knowledge about this understudied aspect of Canadian federalism and contribute to the practice of intergovernmental policy making across the country."--
Author : John Dewey
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781473382800
This antiquarian volume contains a comprehensive treatise on democracy and education, being an introduction to the 'philosophy of education'. Written in clear, concise language and full of interesting expositions and thought-provoking assertions, this volume will appeal to those with an interest in the role of education in society, and it would make for a great addition to collections of allied literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Education as a Necessity of Life'; 'Education as a Social Function'; 'Education as Direction'; 'Education as Growth'; 'Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline'; 'Education as Conservative and Progressive'; 'The Democratic Conception in Education'; 'Aims in Education', etcetera. We are republishing this vintage book now complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.
Author : Brendan Boyd,Andrea Olive
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Canadian provinces
ISBN : 9781487526399
Examining a range of policy areas in Canada, this book assesses the extent to which governments share information and learn from each other when tackling challenging policy problems and the impact it has on national policy making.
Author : Twentieth Century Fund. Task Force on Governance of New Towns,Royce Hanson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015007226197
Author : Kimberley Coles
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0472069853
Examines the world of humanitarian aid workers and the processes of democratization that they put into effect in Bosnia-Herzegovina
Author : Debasish Roy Chowdhury,John Keane
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192588272
India is heralded as the world's largest democracy. Yet, there is now growing alarm about its democratic health. To Kill a Democracy gets to the heart of the matter. Combining poignant life stories with sharp scholarly insight, it rejects the belief that India was once a beacon of democracy but is now being ruined by the destructive forces of Modi-style populism. The book details the much deeper historical roots of the present-day assaults on civil liberties and democratic institutions. Democracy, the authors also argue, is much more than elections and the separation of powers. It is a whole way of life lived in dignity, and that is why they pay special attention to the decaying social foundations of Indian democracy. In compelling fashion, the book describes daily struggles for survival and explains how lived social injustices and unfreedoms rob Indian elections of their meaning, while at the same time feeding the decadence and iron-fisted rule of its governing institutions. Much more than a book about India, To Kill A Democracy argues that what is happening in the country is globally important, and not just because every third person living in a democracy is an Indian. It shows that when democracies rack and ruin their social foundations, they don't just kill off the spirit and substance of democracy. They lay the foundations for despotism.
Author : Robert C. Lieberman,Suzanne Mettler,Kenneth M. Roberts
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2021-11-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108834100
This book examines how polarization threatens democracy and the sources of political and institutional resilience that can help sustain it.