Understanding Democracy

Author : Jie Lu,Yun-han Chu
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 233 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780197570401

Get Book

Understandings of Democracy by Jie Lu,Yun-han Chu Pdf

"Democracy is popular and still enjoys in supremacy in contemporary political discourse with limited challenges from alternatives. Meanwhile, it has also been acknowledged that democracy is in crisis. However, if most people love democracy and politicians have to live with democracy, how can democracy be in trouble? This book examines this puzzling phenomenon. Theoretically, this book argues that (1) people hold distinct understandings of democracy; (2) popular conceptions of democracy are significantly shaped by socioeconomic and political contexts; (3) such varying conceptions generate different baselines for people to assess democratic practices and to establish their views of democracy; and (4) such distinct conceptions also drive political participation in different ways. Overall, popular understandings of democracy have critically shaped how citizens respond to authoritarian or populist practices in contemporary politics. Using new survey instruments embedded in the Global Barometer Surveys (GBS), this book highlights the significance and essentialness of how people assess the tradeoffs between key democratic principles and instrumental gains when they conceptualize democracy for comparative research on popular understandings of democracy. Furthermore, weaving together GBS II survey data from 72 societies and survey experiments, this book scrutinizes some key micro-dynamics that drive people's critical political attitudes and behaviors, which are centered on how people understand democracy in different ways. Overall, this book theorizes and demonstrates that, as a critical but under-appreciated component of the demand-side dynamics, varying conceptions of democracy offer significant explanatory power for understanding why democracy is in trouble, even when most people profess to love democracy"--

Author : John J. Patrick
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 113 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-05-25
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780195311976

Get Book

Understanding Democracy by John J. Patrick Pdf

Explains the core concepts of democracy.

Author : Nicholas T. Davis,Kirby Goidel,Keith Gaddie
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-08-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472220380

Get Book

Democracy's Meanings by Nicholas T. Davis,Kirby Goidel,Keith Gaddie Pdf

Democracy’s Meanings challenges conventional wisdom regarding how the public thinks about and evaluates democracy. Mining both political theory and more than 75 years of public opinion data, the book argues that Americans think about democracy in ways that go beyond voting or elected representation. Instead, citizens have rich and substantive views about the material conditions that democracy should produce, which draw from their beliefs about equality, fairness, and justice. The authors construct a typology of views about democracy. Procedural views of democracy take a minimalistic quality. While voting and fair treatment are important to this vision of democracy, ideas about equality are mostly limited to civil liberties. In contrast, social views of democracy incorporate both civil and economic equality; according to people with these views, democracy ought to meet the basic social and material needs of citizens. Complementing these two groups are moderate and indifferent views about democracy. While moderate views sit somewhere in between procedural and social perspectives regarding the role of democracy in producing social and economic equality, indifferent views of democracy involve disaffection toward it. For a small group of apathetic citizens, democracy is an ambiguous and ill-defined concept.

Author : Frederic Charles Schaffer
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781501718397

Get Book

Democracy in Translation by Frederic Charles Schaffer Pdf

Frederic C. Schaffer challenges the assumption often made by American scholars that democracy has been achieved in foreign countries when criteria such as free elections are met. Elections, he argues, often have cultural underpinnings that are invisible to outsiders. To examine grassroots understandings of democratic institutions and political concepts, Schaffer conducted fieldwork in Senegal, a mostly Islamic and agrarian country with a long history of electoral politics. Schaffer discovered that ideas of "demokaraasi" held by Wolof-speakers often reflect concerns about collective security. Many Senegalese see voting as less a matter of choosing leaders than of reinforcing community ties that may be called upon in times of crisis.By looking carefully at language, Schaffer demonstrates that institutional arrangements do not necessarily carry the same meaning in different cultural contexts. Democracy in Translation asks how social scientists should investigate the functioning of democratic institutions in cultures dissimilar from their own, and raises larger issues about the nature of democracy, the universality of democratic ideals, and the practice of cross-cultural research.

Author : Michael Mann
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 0521538548

Get Book

The Dark Side of Democracy by Michael Mann Pdf

Publisher Description

Author : Roland Axtmann
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2003-02-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781847871008

Get Book

Understanding Democratic Politics by Roland Axtmann Pdf

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 : Jørgen Møller,Svend-Erik Skaaning
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136665844

Get Book

Requisites of Democracy by Jørgen Møller,Svend-Erik Skaaning Pdf

This book examines theoretical and empirical approaches to measuring, defining and understanding democracy, and brings together the conceptual and theoretical writings of Joseph Schumpeter, Robert A. Dahl, Guillermo O’Donnell, and T. H. Marshal.

Author : Teresa Joseph,Siby K. Joseph
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2018-03-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429942686

Get Book

Deliberative Democracy by Teresa Joseph,Siby K. Joseph Pdf

Deliberative democracy can be seen as a part of the agenda of deepening democracy, wherein the public deliberation of citizens forms the basis of legitimate decision-making, with the people participating directly in the deliberations or making of decisions that affect them. Although political theorists have long contended that democracy should not be based merely on voting but also on informed public debate and despite diverse attempts at deliberative democracy having been made in various parts of the world, it is only during the recent decades that such initiatives have gained momentum. In terms of procedural democracy and the working of democratic institutions, India’s record is considered to be noteworthy. However, questions relating to deliberative democracy have come to the fore, particularly in the recent years, with questions of inclusion and equality posing major challenges. The essays in this volume address various dimensions of the issue, ranging from a theoretical conceptualization of deliberative democracy to its role in constitution-making, Gandhian contributions to deliberative democracy, civil society interventions and the role of the media in deliberative processes in India, the participation of new social movements, Dalit and ecological movements, as well as the intricacies of deliberation and decentralization, and issues of development, marginalization and mobilization. The volume facilitates an understanding of the broad contours and evolving nature of democracy in India and how the Indian experience can inform larger debates on deliberative democracy. Please note: Taylor & Francis does not sell or distribute the Hardback in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka.

Author : Albert Breton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1997-08-13
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0521582369

Get Book

Understanding Democracy by Albert Breton Pdf

Democracy has moved to the centre of systemic reflections on political economy, gaining a position which used to be occupied by the debate about socialism and capitalism. Certitudes about democracy have been replaced by an awareness of the elusiveness and fluidity of democratic institutions and of the multiplicity of dimensions involved. This is a book which reflects this intellectual situation. It consists of a collection of essays by well-known economists and political scientists from both North America and Europe on the nature of democracy, on the conditions for democracy to be stable, and on the relationship between democracy and important economic issues such as the functioning of the market economy, economic growth, income distribution and social policies.

Author : J. Patrick Gunning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Bureaucracy
ISBN : 9864120832

Get Book

Understanding Democracy by J. Patrick Gunning Pdf

Author : Barry Holden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UGA:32108026260144

Get Book

Understanding Liberal Democracy by Barry Holden Pdf

This comprehensive introductory text examines the meaning and history of basic concepts such as "democracy", "liberal democracy", "liberty" and "equality" and how they are related. Different forms and theories of democracy and the justifications and prospects for liberal democracy are discussed.

Author : Hugh Chisholm
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1016 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
ISBN : UOM:39015015204509

Get Book

The Encyclopaedia Britannica by Hugh Chisholm Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Wimmer,Cornelia Wallner,Rainer Winter,Karoline Oelsner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317217411

Get Book

(Mis)Understanding Political Participation by Jeffrey Wimmer,Cornelia Wallner,Rainer Winter,Karoline Oelsner Pdf

The practices of participation and engagement are characterised by complexities and contradictions. All celebratory examples of uses of social media, e.g. in the Arab spring, the Occupy movement or in recent LGBTQ protests, are deeply rooted in human practices. Because of this connection, every case of mediated participation should be perceived as highly contextual and cannot be attributed to one (social) specific media logic, necessitating detailed empirical studies to investigate the different contexts of political and civic engagement. In this volume, the theoretical chapters discuss analytical frameworks that can enrich our understanding of current contexts and practices of mediated participation. The empirical studies explore the implications of the new digital conditions for the ways in which digitally mediated social interactions, practices and environments shape everyday participation, engagement or protest and their subjective as well societal meaning.

Author : Nicholas Wolterstorff
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199558957

Get Book

Understanding Liberal Democracy by Nicholas Wolterstorff Pdf

This volume presents influential work by Nicholas Wolterstorff at the intersection between political philosophy and religion, alongside nine new essays on the nature of liberal democracy, human rights, and political authority. These novel essays offer an attractive alternative to the public reason liberalism defended by thinkers such as John Rawls.

Author : John Dewey
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-31
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781473382800

Get Book

Democracy and Education by John Dewey Pdf

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.