Prologue To Democracy

Author : Mark Lloyd
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0252091752

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Prologue to a Farce by Mark Lloyd Pdf

Inspired by Madison’s observation, Mark Lloyd has crafted a complex and powerful assessment of the relationship between communications and democracy in the United States. In Prologue to a Farce, he argues that citizens’ political capabilities depend on broad public access to media technologies, but that the U.S. communications environment has become unfairly dominated by corporate interests. Drawing on a wealth of historical sources, Lloyd demonstrates that despite the persistent hope that a new technology (from the telegraph to the Internet) will rise to serve the needs of the republic, none have solved the fundamental problems created by corporate domination. After examining failed alternatives to the strong publicly-owned communications model, such as anti-trust regulation, the public trustee rules of the Federal Communications Commission, and the under-funded public broadcasting service, Lloyd argues that we must recreate a modern version of the Founder’s communications environment, and offers concrete strategies aimed at empowering citizens.

Author : Sir William Blake Richmond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1920
Category : Great Britain
ISBN : OXFORD:N10347212

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Democracy--false Or True? by Sir William Blake Richmond Pdf

Author : Mark Lloyd
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-12-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0252031040

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Prologue to a Farce by Mark Lloyd Pdf

Inspired by Madison’s observation, Mark Lloyd has crafted a complex and powerful assessment of the relationship between communications and democracy in the United States. In Prologue to a Farce, he argues that citizens’ political capabilities depend on broad public access to media technologies, but that the U.S. communications environment has become unfairly dominated by corporate interests. Drawing on a wealth of historical sources, Lloyd demonstrates that despite the persistent hope that a new technology (from the telegraph to the Internet) will rise to serve the needs of the republic, none have solved the fundamental problems created by corporate domination. After examining failed alternatives to the strong publicly-owned communications model, such as anti-trust regulation, the public trustee rules of the Federal Communications Commission, and the under-funded public broadcasting service, Lloyd argues that we must recreate a modern version of the Founder’s communications environment, and offers concrete strategies aimed at empowering citizens.

Author : Lisle A. Rose
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780813164274

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Prologue to Democracy by Lisle A. Rose Pdf

This study of the Southern Federalists examines their contribution to the formation of the party system at the end of the eighteenth century and to the liberalization of politics in America. Despite their belief in rule by the elite and their reluctance to develop an organized party system, the Southern Federalists are shown by Lisle A. Rose to have elicited political participation along broad geographic and social lines through local party efforts, newspaper campaigns, and mass meetings. Forced into distinct ideological and organizational identities, the Southern Federalists as much as their Republican opponents had a significant share in shaping American political life in the last years of the eighteenth century.

Author : W. B. Richmond
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2015-07-08
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1330971531

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Democracy False Or True? A Prologue and Dream (Classic Reprint) by W. B. Richmond Pdf

Excerpt from Democracy False or True? A Prologue and Dream It is a dangerous, but agreeable, game to play the prophet, perhaps unwise; but while admitting that, I am going to do so, not because I feel sure, but because I want to sift my own thoughts. I may be told "why not do so in private?" I've done that already. Probably it does not matter what an old man says, "He is a weather beaten block waiting for axe or fire." Whatever Ideals are mine, there are few which are in agreement with the fashion of to-day. Still I am capable of looking forward. I've looked back a great deal in my life, and been a humble student of "Cause and Effect." Young enough to believe, even though it lies distant from hence, in Utopia, and I make bold to say so. I still believe in the human race. I still believe in a capacity for repentance and change of direction from bad to a better state of things. It is likely that the desirable, according to my philosophy, would be the undesirable to many, perhaps, just now, most people! Nevertheless I mean to state it. William Morris made a delightful story, "News from Nowhere"; he thought that Socialism would realise his Ideal, perhaps it might; anyway Socialism is a pleasanter word than Individualism, it suggests "Thou," the other cries "I." Thou has not been in the air of late. has been so, and prominently; of this, more presently! Some great and wise men have spent considerable energies in building Utopia. Jesus Christ, Moses, Hamurrabbi, and Mohammed, Plato, Sir Thomas More, and, when I come to think of it, all leaders of thought have played with the bricks of that entertaining place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Author : Gert J.J. Biesta
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-21
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789460915123

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Learning Democracy in School and Society: Education, Lifelong Learning, and the Politics of Citizenship by Gert J.J. Biesta Pdf

This book explores the relationships between education, lifelong learning and democratic citizenship. It emphasises the importance of the democratic quality of the processes and practices that make up the everyday lives of children, young people and adults for their ongoing formation as democratic citizens. The book combines theoretical and historical work with critical analysis of policies and wider developments in the field of citizenship education and civic learning. The book urges educators, educationalists, policy makers and politicians to move beyond an exclusive focus on the teaching of citizenship towards an outlook that acknowledges the ongoing processes and practices of civic learning in school and society. This is not only important in order to understand the complexities of such learning. It can also help to formulate more realistic expectations about what schools and other educational institutions can contribute to the promotion of democratic citizenship. The book is particularly suited for students, researchers and policy makers who have an interest in citizenship education, civic learning and the relationships between education, lifelong learning and democratic citizenship. Gert Biesta (www.gertbiesta.com) is Professor of Education at the School of Education, University of Stirling, UK.

Author : Adam Przeworski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1991-07-26
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 052142335X

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Democracy and the Market by Adam Przeworski Pdf

The quest for freedom from hunger and repression has triggered in recent years a dramatic, worldwide reform of political and economic systems. Never have so many people enjoyed, or at least experimented with democratic institutions. However, many strategies for economic development in Eastern Europe and Latin America have failed with the result that entire economic systems on both continents are being transformed. This major book analyzes recent transitions to democracy and market-oriented economic reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Drawing in a quite distinctive way on models derived from political philosophy, economics, and game theory, Professor Przeworski also considers specific data on individual countries. Among the questions raised by the book are: What should we expect from these experiments in democracy and market economy? What new economic systems will emerge? Will these transitions result in new democracies or old dictatorships?

Author : William Blake Richmond, Sir
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-05-21
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1358264449

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Democracy--False Or True? by William Blake Richmond, Sir Pdf

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Author : Barbara Barkhuizen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1997-11-28
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 0702142301

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Democracy by Barbara Barkhuizen Pdf

Attempting to demystify popular notions of democracy, this text shows how democracy evolves - through the societal application of ethical principles that vary and mutate. The ultimate message is that South Africans can successfully build a democracy to meet the needs of all in their society.

Author : Ignacio Walker
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780268096663

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Democracy in Latin America by Ignacio Walker Pdf

In 2009, Ignacio Walker—scholar, politician, and one of Latin America’s leading public intellectuals—published La Democracia en América Latina. Now available in English, with a new prologue, and significantly revised and updated for an English-speaking audience, Democracy in Latin America: Between Hope and Despair contributes to the necessary and urgent task of exploring both the possibilities and difficulties of establishing a stable democracy in Latin America. Walker argues that, throughout the past century, Latin American history has been marked by the search for responses or alternatives to the crisis of oligarchic rule and the struggle to replace the oligarchic order with a democratic one. After reviewing some of the principal theories of democracy based on an analysis of the interactions of political, economic, and social factors, Walker maintains that it is primarily the actors, institutions, and public policies—not structural determinants—that create progress or regression in Latin American democracy.

Author : W. B. Richmond
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1354281152

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Democracy--False Or True? a Prologue and Dream by W. B. Richmond Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Donna Podems
Publisher : IAP
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781681237909

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Democratic Evaluation and Democracy by Donna Podems Pdf

Democratic evaluation brings a way of thinking about evaluation’s role in society and in particular, its role in strengthening social justice. Yet the reality of applying it, and what happens when it is applied particularly outside the West, is unclear. Set in South Africa, a newly formed democracy in Southern Africa, the book affords an in-depth journey that immerses a reader into the realities of evaluation and its relation to democracy. The book starts with the broader introductory chapters that set the scene for more detailed ones which bring thorough insights into national government, local government, and civil societies’ experience of evaluation, democratic evaluation and their understanding of how it contributes to strengthening democracy (or not). A teaching case, the book concludes by providing guiding questions that encourage reflection, discussion and learning that ultimately aims to inform practice and theory.

Author : Paul Cartledge
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199837458

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Democracy by Paul Cartledge Pdf

"Democracy: A Life holds out three unique research aims: a proper understanding of the origins and variety of ancient Greek democracies; a detailed account of the fate of democracy - both the institution and the word - in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds from the fifth century BCE to the 6th century CE; and a nuanced exploration of the ways in which all ancient Greek democracies differed from all modern so-called 'democracies'"--

Author : Paul Carrese
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107121058

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Democracy in Moderation by Paul Carrese Pdf

A rediscovery of Montesquieu's legacy in shaping America's complex political order including influence on Washington's practical moderation.

Author : Robert Penn Warren
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0674196260

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Democracy and Poetry by Robert Penn Warren Pdf

In these two essays, one of America's most honored writers fastens on the interrelation of American democracy and poetry and the concept of selfhood vital to each. "I really don't want to make a noise like a pundit," Mr. Warren declares, "What I do want to do is to return us--and myself most of all--to a scrutiny of our own experience of our own world." Indeed, Democracy and Poetry offers one of the most pertinent and strongly personal meditations on our condition to have appeared in recent letters. Our native "poetry," that is, literature and art, in general, is a social document, is "diagnostic," and has often been a corrosive criticism of our democracy, Mr. Warren argues. Persuasively, and movingly, he shows that all of "art" and all that goes into the making of democracy require a free and responsible self. Yet the American experience has been one of the decay of the notion of self. Our astounding success jeopardized what we promised to create--the free man. For a century and a half the conception of the self has been dwindling, separating itself from traditional values, moral identity, and a secure relation with community. Lonely heroes in a bankrupt civilization, then protest, despair, aimlessness, and violence, have marked our literature. The anguish of Robert Penn Warren's own poetic vision of art and democracy is soothed only by his belief that poetry--the making of art can nourish and at least do something toward the rescue of democracy; he shows how art can be- come a healer, can be "therapeutic." In the face of disintegrative forces set loose in a business and technetronic society, it is poetry that affirms the notion of the self. It is a model of the organized self, an emblem of the struggle for the achieving self, and of the self in a community. More and more as our modern technetronic society races toward the abolition of the self, and diverges from a culture created to enhance the notion of selfhood, poetry becomes indispensable. Compelling, resonant, memorable, Democracy and Poetry is a major testament not only to the vitality of poetry, but also to a faith in democracy.