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Author : James H. Read
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : STANFORD:36105132232732
This text sheds light on the promise and limitations of democracy, showing that, despite the failure of Calhoun's remedy, his diagnosis of the potential injustice of majority rule must be taken seriously.
Author : Arend Lijphart
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 586 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2007-10-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135980290
Arend Lijphart is one of the world's leading and most influential political scientists whose work has had a profound impact on the study of democracy and comparative politics. Thinking about Democracy draws on a lifetime's experience of research and publication in this area and collects together for the first time his most significant and influential work. The book also contains an entirely new introduction and conclusion where Professor Lijphart assesses the development of his thought and the practical impact it has had on emerging democracies. This volume will be of enormous interest to all students and scholars of democracy and comparative politics, and politics and international relations in general.
Author : Peter J. Emerson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 139 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Consensus (Social sciences)
ISBN : 0950602841
Author : Mirko Canevaro
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018-06-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781474421782
The first full-length academic study to deal exclusively with female stardom in British cinema.
Author : Ming-Hui Chen,Lynn Kuo,Paul O. Lewis
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-27
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781466500792
Offering a rich diversity of models, Bayesian phylogenetics allows evolutionary biologists, systematists, ecologists, and epidemiologists to obtain answers to very detailed phylogenetic questions. Suitable for graduate-level researchers in statistics and biology, Bayesian Phylogenetics: Methods, Algorithms, and Applications presents a snapshot of current trends in Bayesian phylogenetic research. Encouraging interdisciplinary research, this book introduces state-of-the-art phylogenetics to the Bayesian statistical community and, likewise, presents state-of-the-art Bayesian statistics to the phylogenetics community. The book emphasizes model selection, reflecting recent interest in accurately estimating marginal likelihoods. It also discusses new approaches to improve mixing in Bayesian phylogenetic analyses in which the tree topology varies. In addition, the book covers divergence time estimation, biologically realistic models, and the burgeoning interface between phylogenetics and population genetics.
Author : Arend Lijphart
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300189124
Examining 36 democracies from 1945 to 2010, this text arrives at conclusions about what type of democracy works best. It demonstrates that consensual systems stimulate economic growth, control inflation and unemployment, and limit budget deficits.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004281196
Openness implies bottom-up empowerment and top-down transparency. The Paradox of Openness analyses the tensions encountered when openness is applied to the quest for democracy and markets, freedom and truth, compliance and transparency, and consensus and dissent in progressive Nordic societies.
Author : Institute of Medicine,Committee on the Social and Ethical Impacts of Developments in Biomedicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1995-03-27
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309051323
Breakthroughs in biomedicine often lead to new life-giving treatments but may also raise troubling, even life-and-death, quandaries. Society's Choices discusses ways for people to handle today's bioethics issues in the context of America's unique history and cultureâ€"and from the perspectives of various interest groups. The book explores how Americans have grappled with specific aspects of bioethics through commission deliberations, programs by organizations, and other mechanisms and identifies criteria for evaluating the outcomes of these efforts. The committee offers recommendations on the role of government and professional societies, the function of commissions and institutional review boards, and bioethics in health professional education and research. The volume includes a series of 12 superb background papers on public moral discourse, mechanisms for handling social and ethical dilemmas, and other specific areas of controversy by well-known experts Ronald Bayer, Martin Benjamin, Dan W. Brock, Baruch A. Brody, H. Alta Charo, Lawrence Gostin, Bradford H. Gray, Kathi E. Hanna, Elizabeth Heitman, Thomas Nagel, Steven Shapin, and Charles M. Swezey.
Author : Robert Elder
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2021-02-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780465096459
A new biography of the intellectual father of Southern secession—the man who set the scene for the Civil War, and whose political legacy still shapes America today. John C. Calhoun is among the most notorious and enigmatic figures in American political history. First elected to Congress in 1810, Calhoun went on to serve as secretary of war and vice president. But he is perhaps most known for arguing in favor of slavery as a "positive good" and for his famous doctrine of "state interposition," which laid the groundwork for the South to secede from the Union—and arguably set the nation on course for civil war. Calhoun has catapulted back into the public eye in recent years, as some observers connected the strain of radical politics he developed to the tactics and extremism of the modern Far Right, and as protests over racial injustice have focused on his legacy. In this revelatory biographical study, historian Robert Elder shows that Calhoun is even more broadly significant than these events suggest, and that his story is crucial for understanding the political climate in which we find ourselves today. By excising Calhoun from the mainstream of American history, he argues, we have been left with a distorted understanding of our past and no way to explain our present.
Author : Greg Weiner
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-08-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780700628957
In the wake of national crises and sharp shifts in the electorate, new members of Congress march off to Washington full of intense idealism and the desire for instant change—but often lacking in any sense of proportion or patience. This drive for instant political gratification concerned one of the key Founders, James Madison, who accepted the inevitability of majority rule but worried that an inflamed majority might not rule reasonably. Greg Weiner challenges longstanding suppositions that Madison harbored misgivings about majority rule, arguing instead that he viewed constitutional institutions as delaying mechanisms to postpone decisions until after public passions had cooled and reason took hold. In effect, Madison believed that one of the Constitution's primary functions is to act as a metronome, regulating the tempo of American politics. Weiner calls this implicit doctrine "temporal republicanism" to emphasize both its compatibility with and its contrast to other interpretations of the Founders' thought. Like civic republicanism, the "temporal" variety embodies a set of values—public-spiritedness, respect for the rights of others—broader than the technical device of majority rule. Exploring this fundamental idea of time-seasoned majority rule across the entire range of Madison's long career, Weiner shows that it did not substantially change over the course of his life. He presents Madison's understanding of internal constitutional checks and his famous "extended republic" argument as different and complementary mechanisms for improving majority rule by slowing it down, not blocking it. And he reveals that the changes we see in Madison's views of majority rule arise largely from his evolving beliefs about who, exactly, was behaving impulsively-whether abusive majorities in the 1780s, the Adams regime in the 1790s, the nullifiers in the 1820s. Yet there is no evidence that Madison's underlying beliefs about either majority rule or the distorting and transient nature of passions ever swayed. If patience was a fact of life in Madison's day—a time when communication and travel were slow-it surely is much harder to cultivate in the age of the Internet, 24-hour news, and politics based on instant gratification. While many of today's politicians seem to wed supreme impatience with an avowed devotion to original constitutional principles, Madison's Metronome suggests that one of our nation's great luminaries would likely view that marriage with caution.
Author : Anthony J. McGann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0472099493
How does democracy work?
Author : Paul Woodruff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2006-03-16
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780195304541
This brilliant analysis of the nature of democracy draws on the hard-earned lessons of the ancient Greeks.
Author : Edward Fram
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 341 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316511572
Codes of Jewish law may look similar, but they represent very different ways of thinking about the law.
Author : Melvin F. Janowitz
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2024-06-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 082187103X
This volume is based on two DIMACS working group meetings on ''Bioconsensus''. It provides a valuable introduction and reference to the various aspects of this rapidly developing field. The meetings brought together mathematical and biological scientists to discuss the uses in the biological sciences of methods of consensus and social choice. These two lively meetings contributed much toward establishing the new field of ''bioconsensus''. Yet this book is much more than just a report of two meetings. It includes some historical background, as well as a substantial introduction to the axiomatic foundations of the field of bioconsensus and some practical applications of consensus methods to real data. Also included are contributed papers from experts who were not at the meetings. The book is intended for mathematical biologists, evolutionary biologists, and computer scientists.
Author : William J. Bulman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2021-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9781108842495
Explores the emergence of majority rule in the elected assemblies of early modern Britain and its Atlantic colonies over two centuries.
