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Author : Karl Bürkli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Referendum
ISBN : HARVARD:32044080048036
Author : Karl Bürkli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1869
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:42252522
Author : Moritz Rittinghausen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1897
Category : Referendum
ISBN : UCAL:$B269621
Author : Senator Mike Gravel
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781728339306
The universal form of governance where citizens vote to empower their elected officials to represent their interests is simply representative government –– not a democracy where people would rule directly. Accepting this definitional distinction improves our understanding that bringing the people into the operations of government as deliberative lawmakers –– deliberative direct democracy –– is the answer to dysfunctional representative government. However, empowering the people as deliberative lawmakers is anathema to the selfish interests of elites whose power to control society would be greatly diminished. Consequently, we stay mired in systems of government that do not work.
Author : Nathan Cree
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Referendum
ISBN : PSU:000004710561
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1906
Category : Direct democracy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105047167635
Author : James William Sullivan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Democracy
ISBN : MINN:31951002049375L
Author : David Magleby
Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2001-12-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0801869803
Direct Legislation concludes with a consideration of the developing implications of direct legislation for legislatures, political parties, candidate elections, and other political institutions and processes.
Author : Michael L. Mezey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2008-08-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780742564824
Although we tend to use the terms 'representative democracy' and 'democracy' as synonyms, Michael Mezey maintains that they are not. Democracy means that the people govern; representative democracy means that the people elect others to govern for them. This raises the question of the extent to which representative government approximates democracy-a question that turns on the relationship between representatives and those whom they represent. Mezey reviews the literature on the meaning of representation and its relationship to issues of citizen control. In the empirical sections that follow, he draws on data from the United States Congress and from legislatures outside the United States to discuss the extent to which the composition of a legislature reflects the demography of its nation. The author also examines a legislature's various political and economic interests and the extent to which representatives are responsive to specific requests for assistance from their constituents and to constituent opinions on public policy questions. He further looks at the effect that interest groups, political parties, and election systems have on the relationship between representatives and their constituents. Finally, Mezey addresses the criticisms that have been leveled against representative institutions: that they are slow to act, inefficient and uninformed when they do act, that they are too inclined to do what is popular rather than what is necessary and, conversely, that their members are too removed from the opinions of their constituents and therefore unfaithful to their democratic obligation to respond to the wishes of those whom they represent. Rich in thoughtful analysis, Representative Democracy incorporates normative, empirical and comparative perspectives on representation. It is perfectly suited for use in an upper-level course on the legislative process or Congress.
Author : David Altman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108496636
Offers a comparative study of the origins, performance, and reform of contemporary mechanisms of direct democracy.
Author : Matt Qvortrup
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781526102799
Should citizens be allowed to propose legislation? Should they even be allowed to recall politicians if they do not live up to their expectations? These questions and many others form the subject of this timely book. In addition to presenting an up to date review of the empirical literature, Direct democracy provides a survey of the political philosophers who have theorised about this subject. It is the central tenet in the book that the demand for direct democracy is a consequence of the demand for more consumer choices. Like consumers want individualised products, so voters want individualised and bespoke policies. Described by the BBC as "The world’s leading expert on referendums", the author, Matt Qvortrup, draws on his experience as a political advisor to the US State Department, as well as his extensive academic knowledge of direct democracy.
Author : Roland Axtmann
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2003-03-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0761971831
This textbook is designed for first-time students of politics. It provides an ideal introduction and survey to the key themes and issues central to the study of democratic politics today. The text is structured around three major parts: concepts, institutions and political behaviour; and ideologies and movements. Within each section a series of short and accessible chapters serve to both introduce the key ideas, institutional forms and ideological conflicts central to the study of democratic politics and provide a platform for further, in-depth studies. Each chapter contains a 'bullet-point' summary, a guide to further reading, and a set of questions for tutorial discussion. Designed and written for an undergraduate readership, Understanding Democratic Politics: An Introduction will become an essential guide and companion to all students of politics throughout their university degree.
Author : Michael N Mautner, Ph. D.
Publisher : Legacy Books
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780473068554
All people share the basic needs of survival and the social drives embedded in human nature. Survival demands sustenance, safety and procreation; and the social drives demand dignity, justice and freedom. These shared values emerge when the common will is distilled from the diverse wills of people. Where this communal wisdom governs, human dignity will be honored and our survival will be secure. This book describes a system of pure democracy where all major decision are done through referendums and statistically meaningful public opinion polls. The policies are then executed by expert agencies with oversight from public policy panels. The book also describes transition to Direct Democracy through Representatives pledged to "I shall vote in Congress or Parliament according to the instructions of my constituents."
Author : Bernard Manin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1997-02-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521458919
The thesis of this original and provocative book is that representative government should be understood as a combination of democratic and undemocratic, aristocratic elements. Professor Manin challenges the conventional view that representative democracy is no more than an indirect form of government by the people, in which citizens elect representatives only because they cannot assemble and govern in person. The argument is developed by examining the historical moments when the present institutional arrangements were chosen from among the then available alternatives. Professor Manin reminds us that while today representative institutions and democracy appear as virtually indistinguishable, when representative government was first established in Europe and America, it was designed in opposition to democracy proper. Drawing on the procedures used in earlier republican systems, from classical Athens to Renaissance Florence, in order to highlight the alternatives that were forsaken, Manin brings to the fore the generally overlooked results of representative mechanisms. These include the elitist aspect of elections and the non-binding character of campaign promises.
Author : Simon Sterne
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783382158781
Reprint of the original, first published in 1871. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.