Politics From Anarchy To Democracy

Author : Irwin Lester Morris,Joe A. Oppenheimer,Karol Edward So?tan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804745846

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Politics from Anarchy to Democracy by Irwin Lester Morris,Joe A. Oppenheimer,Karol Edward So?tan Pdf

Although the study of politics dates to ancient Greece, the basic questions that interested those earliest political scientists still linger with us today: What are the origins of government? What should government do? What conditions foster effective governance? Rational choice theory offers a new means for developing correctable answers to these questions. This volume illustrates the promise of rational choice theory and demonstrates how theory can help us develop interesting, fresh conclusions about the fundamental processes of politics. Each of the book’s three sections begins with a pedagogical overview that is accessible to those with little knowledge of rational choice theory. The first group of essays then discusses various ways in which rational choice contributes to our understanding of the foundations of government. The second set focuses on the contributions of rational choice theory to institutional analysis. The final group demonstrates ways in which rational choice theory helps to understand the character of popular government.

Author : Ferdinand Aloys Hermens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 536 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Majorities
ISBN : UOM:39015008237664

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Democracy Or Anarchy? by Ferdinand Aloys Hermens Pdf

Author : April Carter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135025694

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The Political Theory of Anarchism by April Carter Pdf

Anarchism is a significant but relatively neglected of political thought. April Carter examines the anarchist critique of the state, of bureaucracy, of democratic government and contrasts this attitude with more orthodox political theory. She also considers anarchist theories and social and economic organization, the relevance of anarchism to contemporary conditions and the problems of idealism in politics.

Author : Kevin Carson,Darian Worden,David S D'Amato
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2020-06-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1673250084

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Anarchy & Democracy by Kevin Carson,Darian Worden,David S D'Amato Pdf

Combining the Greek words demos ("common people") and kratos ("strength"), democracy means "rule of the commoners." The philosophical and political debates surrounding democracy extend back 2500 years to Ancient Athens. For much of recent history, many people consider democracy to be a cherished value to protect and spread across the globe, while many others see it as a privilege they hope to someday enjoy. Even others, from all over the political spectrum, see democracy as an enemy to be squashed. Anarchists need to clarify the relationship between democracy and the state. What does "rule of the commoners" really mean and should anarchists support it? How do causes like feminism, anti-racism, anti-colonialism, anti-imperialism, and anti-capitalism relate to democracy? How does democracy relate to market exchange and social organization? Ten anarchist authors have chosen to participate in an in-depth examination of the idea of "democracy" and how it relates to anarchy.

Author : Mark Mattern
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2016-03-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781438459219

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Anarchism and Art by Mark Mattern Pdf

Interprets popular art forms as exhibiting core anarchist values and presaging a more democratic world. Situated at the intersection of anarchist and democratic theory, Anarchism and Art focuses on four popular art forms—DIY (Do It Yourself) punk music, poetry slam, graffiti and street art, and flash mobs—found in the cracks between dominant political, economic, and cultural institutions and on the margins of mainstream neoliberal society. Mark Mattern interprets these popular art forms in terms of core anarchist values of autonomy, equality, decentralized and horizontal forms of power, and direct action by common people, who refuse the terms offered them by neoliberalism while creating practical alternatives. As exemplars of central anarchist principles and commitments, such forms of popular art, he argues, prefigure deeper forms of democracy than those experienced by most people in today’s liberal democracies. That is, they contain hints of future, more democratic possibilities, while modeling in the present the characteristics of those more democratic possibilities. Providing concrete evidence that progressive change is both desirable and possible, they also point the way forward. Mark Mattern is Professor of Political Science at Baldwin Wallace University. He is the coeditor (with Nancy S. Love) of Doing Democracy: Activist Art and Cultural Politics, also published by SUNY Press, and the author of Acting in Concert: Music, Community, and Political Action.

Author : Paul W. Drake
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-27
Category : History
ISBN : 9780804771054

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Between Tyranny and Anarchy by Paul W. Drake Pdf

Between Tyranny and Anarchy provides a unique comprehensive history and interpretation of efforts to establish democracies over two centuries in the major Latin American countries. Drake takes an unusual interdisciplinary approach, combining history and political science with an emphasis on political institutions. He argues that, without a thorough examination of the historical roots and causes of Latin American democracy, most general theories can not adequately explain its failures, successes, and forms. Latin America offers an extraordinary laboratory for the study of democratic experiments. Alongside a well-deserved reputation for authoritarianism, it boasts one of the world's deepest, richest histories of democratic movements, ideas, and institutions. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the region's leading democracies did not lag very far behind the United States and Western Europe in making numerous advances. In comparison with those countries, though, Latin America's democratic history has been distinctive because of its fundamental dilemma: how to reconcile political systems theoretically committed to legal equality with societies divided by extreme socio-economic inequalities.

Author : Seifudein Adem
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351743532

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Anarchy, Order and Power in World Politics by Seifudein Adem Pdf

This title was first published in 2002: Questioning the most fundamental assumptions of international relations theory, this absorbing work compares and contrasts domestic and international politics regarding the issues of order and disorder taking into account aspects of the two realms which have been neglected by scholarship until now. Challenging the view that there exists a one-to-one correspondence between the absence of a world government and international anarchy and that durable and genuine cooperation among sovereign states becomes extremely difficult, if not impossible, under the circumstances, this text is suitable for upper-level undergraduates, graduates and scholars of international relations.

Author : Mark Bray
Publisher : John Hunt Publishing
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781782791256

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Translating Anarchy by Mark Bray Pdf

Translating Anarchy tells the story of the anti-capitalist anti-authoritarians of Occupy Wall Street who strategically communicated their revolutionary politics to the public in a way that was both accessible and revolutionary. By “translating” their ideas into everyday concepts like community empowerment and collective needs, these anarchists sparked the most dynamic American social movement in decades. ,

Author : DaN McKee
Publisher : Tippermuir Books Limited
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781916477865

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Authentic Democracy by DaN McKee Pdf

Show me what democracy looks like. This is what democracy looks like. In recent years, such chants - in the main aimed at democratically-elected governments by free citizens - have become common in anti-government protests across the world. Something is clearly amiss with democracy. In Authentic Democracy, this democratic deficit is exposed. By unpacking the underlying arguments and assumptions which justify the current political order, Authentic Democracy shows that the existing democracies are in fact highly undemocratic; and that anarchism is what authentic democracy looks like. "Dan McKee offers an engaging and accessible case for anarchism, deeply rooted in ethics and powerfully responding to conventional defences of authority. This book is an original and valuable contribution which deserves a wide audience." - Uri Gordon, author of Anarchy Alive!

Author : Frederick Lewis Schuman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 792 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Imperialism
ISBN : UCAL:B3477476

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International Politics by Frederick Lewis Schuman Pdf

Author : Robert Paul Wolff
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1998-09-28
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0520215737

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In Defense of Anarchism by Robert Paul Wolff Pdf

With a new preface, Robert Paul Wolff's classic analysis of the foundations of the authority of the state and the problems of political authority and moral autonomy in a democracy.

Author : Markus Lundström
Publisher : PM Press
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781629639994

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Anarchist Critique of Radical Democracy by Markus Lundström Pdf

In spring of 2013, a wave of urban riots swept across Sweden after police shot an elderly man in his own home. When community residents from his marginalized city-district demanded an official apology, they were ignored. The anti-police insurgences that followed addressed deep problems of the Swedish welfare state, and the official responses revealed glitches built into democracy itself. In this updated edition of Anarchist Critique of Radical Democracy: The Impossible Argument, sociologist and historian Markus Lundström explores the boundaries of Swedish democracy. He probes in-depth interviews with community residents to explain how the 2013 riots intensified a profound, democratic conflict: the social divide between the governors and the governed. Resistance to this divide is then traced through the defiance of governance and approaches to democracy in the history of anarchist thought. This book offers an original introduction to anarchism. It relates the diversity of anarchist thought to anti-police riots and the radicalization of democracy.

Author : Markus Lundström
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319769766

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Anarchist Critique of Radical Democracy by Markus Lundström Pdf

"The very best and most fruitful interrogations of political life often come from a deep and scrupulous plunge into a single event. So it is with Markus Lundström's brilliant analysis of the battle in the streets of Husby in 2013. The result is a subtle, philosophically informed and original understanding of the possibilities for enacting the promise of anarchism." -Professor James C. Scott, Yale University, USA "This is movement-based theorizing at its best. Lundström offers a compelling genealogy that details how anarchism might radicalize democracy, or might have to move entirely beyond it. This is an important book for those wondering what comes next, after alterglobalization, after Occupy, for activists in Europe and North America." -Associate Professor Richard Day, Queen's University, Canada "This book takes seriously tensions within anarchism between making democracy more participatory vs making a more radical arrangement beyond democracy. Lundström exemplifies these tensions, and appeals to a variety of anarchist writers for the theoretical tools to think this tension productively." -Professor Kathy E. Ferguson, University of Hawai'i, USA "Advancing on the anarchist tradition, Lundström's argument is timely, compelling, and deeply grounded in the collective experience of radical democratic contestation. This book deserves wide attention from scholars and activists alike." -Assistant Professor Uri Gordon, University of Nottingham, UK This book addresses the conflictual nature of radical democracy. By analyzing democratic conflict in Husby, a marginalized Stockholm city district, it exposes democracy's core division - between governors and governed - as theorized by Jacques Rancière. Tracing the genealogy of that critique, the book interrogates a historical tradition generically adverse to every form of governance, namely anarchism. By outlining the divergent and discontinuous relationship between democracy and anarchy - within the history of anarchist thought - the author adds to democratic theory 'The Impossible Argument': a compound anarchist critique of radical democracy.

Author : Anne Norton
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : 0197644376

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Wild Democracy by Anne Norton Pdf

This is a manifesto for a wilder democracy. This is an ethic for free, courageous and anarchic democrats. Courage is necessary because fear is the death of democracy. Fear--fear for personal security, fear of change and loss--leads to fascism and authoritarianism. Anarchy protects us. Anarchy is not a license, anarchy is the shadow and salvation of democracy, the discipline of the free. Wild democracy is nurtured in anarchic spaces. The Western canon taught that true democracy is dangerous, and that the people are a problem to be managed. This book argues that people have not only the right but the ability to rule themselves. The law should not rule them, they should rule the law. The book offers a critique of liberalism, the rule of law, and the Western canon. The anarchy that the book advocates is not a rejection of politics, solidarity, or cooperation: it is the rejection of any ruler but oneself. Wild democrats speak freely and deliberately. They are unafraid of difference, diversity and pluralism. They take risks. They experiment with new forms of government and the abandonment of governance. They dare to live with their enemies, to become new people and make new worlds. They recognize that when liberty is gone they have not only the right but the duty to rebel. This book, composed of a series of brief theses, offers a braver, more daring ethic for democrats, one that values courage more than civility, places respect above tolerance, and rejects authoritarianism decisively.

Author : Anthony De Jasay
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Anarchism
ISBN : 0415170672

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Against Politics by Anthony De Jasay Pdf

Government depends on collective decision making. Even in peaceful democracies, some decide for all. The author challenges the morality of this position. It is not different political systems that are at fault as the nature of politics itself