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Author : Michael J. Malbin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1980-10-02
Category : Law
ISBN : UOM:39015005160323
Author : Michael J. Malbin
Publisher : Basic Books (AZ)
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1982-03-01
Category : Representative government and representation
ISBN : 0465088678
Author : James R. Copland
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781641771214
America is highly polarized around elections, but unelected actors make many of the decisions that affect our lives. In this lucid history, James R. Copland explains how unaccountable agents have taken over much of the U.S. government apparatus. Congress has largely abdicated its authority. “Independent” administrative agencies churn out thousands of new regulations every year. Courts have enabled these rulemakers to expand their powers beyond those authorized by law—and have constrained executive efforts to rein in the bureaucratic behemoth. No ordinary citizen can know what is legal and what is not. There are some 300,000 federal crimes, 98 percent of which were created by administrative action. The proliferation of rules gives enormous discretion to unelected enforcers, and the severity of sanctions can be ruinous to citizens who unwittingly violate a regulation. Outside the bureaucracy, private attorneys regulate our conduct through lawsuits. Most of the legal theories underlying these suits were never voted upon by our elected representatives. A combination of historical accident, decisions by judges and law professors, and self-interested advocacy by litigators has built an onerous and expensive legal regime. Finally, state and local officials may be accountable to their own voters, but some reach further afield, pursuing agendas to dictate the terms of national commerce. These new antifederalists are subjecting the citizens of Wyoming and Mississippi to the whims of the electorates of New York and San Francisco—contrary to the constitutional design. In these ways, the unelected have assumed substantial control of the American republic, upended the rule of law, given the United States the world’s costliest legal system, and inverted the Constitution’s federalism. Copland caps off his account with ideas for charting a corrective course back to democratic accountability.
Author : Paul Tucker
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 662 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2019-09-10
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691196305
Tucker presents guiding principles for ensuring that central bankers and other unelected policymakers remain stewards of the common good.
Author : Michael Saward
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780199579389
Representation is more than a matter of elections and parties. This book offers a radical new perspective on the subject. Representation, it argues, is all around us, a dynamic practise across societies rather than simply a fixed feature of government. At the heart of the argument is the straightforward but versatile notion of the representative claim. People claim to speak or stand for others in multiple, shifting, and surprising patterns. At the same time they offer images oftheir constituents and audiences as artists paint portraits. Who can speak for and about us in this volatile world of representations? Which representative claims can have democratic legitimacy? The Representative Claim is set to transform our core assumptions about what representation is and canbe. At a time when political representation is widely believed to be in crisis, the book provides a timely and critical corrective to conventional wisdom on the present and potential future of representative democracy.
Author : Steven S. Smith,Jason M. Roberts,Ryan J. Vander Wielen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521856760
The American Congress provides the most insightful, up-to-date treatment of congressional politics available in an undergraduate text. Informed by the authors' Capitol Hill experience and nationally-recognized scholarship, The American Congress presents a crisp introduction to all major features of Congress: its party and committee systems, leadership, and voting and floor activity. The American Congress has the most in-depth discussions of the place of the president, the courts, and interest groups in congressional policy making available in a text.
Author : Suzanne Struglinski,Lisa Friedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:781061183
Author : John Keane
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-10-31
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781107041776
Examines the role of the media in shaping and representing political life, arguing that 'media decadence' is harmful for democracy.
Author : Zygmunt Bauman,Council of Europe. Directorate of Policy Planning
Publisher : Council of Europe
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9287174636
Democracy is well-established and soundly practiced in most European countries. But despite unprecedented progress, there is growing dissatisfaction with the state of democracy and deepening mistrust of democratic institutions; a situation exacerbated by the economic crisis. Are Europe's democracies really under threat? Has the traditional model of European democracy exhausted its potential? A broad consensus is forming as to the urgent need to examine the origins of the crisis and to explore visions and strategies which could contribute to rebuilding confidence in democracy. As Europe's guardian of democracy, human rights and the rule of law, the Council of Europe is committed to exploring the state and practice of European democracy, as well as identifying new challenges and anticipating future trends. In order to facilitate this reflection, the Council of Europe held a series of Democracy Debates with the participation of renowned specialists working in a variety of backgrounds and disciplines. This publication presents the eight Democracy Debate lectures. Each presentation analyses a specific aspect of democracy today, placing the issues not only in their political context but also addressing the historical, technological and communication dimensions. The authors make proposals on ways to improve democratic governance and offer their predictions on how democracy in Europe may evolve. Together, the presentations contribute to improving our understanding of democracy today and to recognising the ways it could be protected and strengthened.
Author : Anthony Michael Bertelli
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107169715
Those who implement policies have the discretion to shape democratic values. Public administration is not policy administered, but democracy administered.
Author : Min Reuchamps,Julien Vrydagh,Yanina Welp
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2023-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783110758269
Citizens' Assemblies (CAs) are flourishing around the world. Quite often composed of randomly selected citizens, CAs, arguably, come as a possible answer to contemporary democratic challenges. Democracies worldwide are indeed confronted with a series of disruptive phenomena such as a widespread perception of distrust and growing polarization as well as low performance. Many actors seek to reinvigorate democracy with citizen participation and deliberation. CAs are expected to have the potential to meet this twofold objective. But, despite deliberative and inclusive qualities of CAs, many questions remain open. The increasing popularity of CAs call for a holistic reflection and evaluation on their origins, current uses and future directions. The De Gruyter Handbook of Citizens' Assemblies showcases the state of the art around the study of CAs and opens novel perspectives informed by multidisciplinary research and renewed thinking about deliberative participatory processes. It discusses the latest theoretical, empirical, and methodological scientific developments on CAs and offers a unique resource for scholars, decision-makers, practitioners, and curious citizens to better understand the qualities, purposes, promises but also pitfalls of CAs.
Author : Frank Vibert
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2007-06-07
Category : Law
ISBN : 0521694140
This book examines the challenge that unelected bodies such as economic regulators present to democracy, and argues that they should be seen as a new branch of government and held to account through a new separation of powers.
Author : Stephen H. Jones
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781838605872
National identity and liberal democracy are recurrent themes in debates about Muslim minorities in the West. Britain is no exception, with politicians responding to claims about Muslims' lack of integration by mandating the promotion of 'fundamental British values' including 'democracy' and 'individual liberty'. This book engages with both these themes, addressing the lack of understanding about the character of British Islam and its relationship to the liberal state. It charts a gradual but decisive shift in British institutions concerned with Islamic education, Islamic law and Muslim representation since Muslims settled in the UK in large numbers in the 1950s. Based on empirical research including interviews undertaken over a ten-year period with Muslims, and analysis of public events organized by Islamic institutions, Stephen Jones challenges claims about the isolation of British Islamic organizations and shows that they have decisively shaped themselves around British public and institutional norms. He argues that this amounts to the building of a distinctive 'British Islam'. Using this narrative, the book makes the case for a variety of liberalism that is open to the expression of religious arguments in public and to associations between religious groups and the state. It also offers a powerful challenge to claims about the insularity of British Islamic institutions by showing how the national orientation of Islam called for by British policymakers is, in fact, already happening.
Author : Henrike Knappe
Publisher : Budrich UniPress
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2017-01-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783863887209
Transnational civil society networks have become increasingly important democratizing actors in global politics. Still, the exploration of democracy in such networks remains conceptually and methodologically challenging. Practice theory provides a framework to study democracy as routinized performances even in contexts of fluid boundaries, temporal relations and a diffuse constituency. The author attempts to understand how new forms of democratic practice emerge in the interaction between political actors and their structural environments.
Author : Suzanne Struglinski,Lisa Friedman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:751699267
It's All Who You Know When Working the System Here's How to Get to Know the Right People With the Tea Party wind in their sails, Republicans blew back into power in a big way in this year. The 2010 mid-term elections saw the GOP win the Houseof Representatives and claim a bigger margin in the Senate, prompting President Obama to acknowledge responsibility for what he called the "shellacking" Democrats took at the polls. Along with renewed introspection from the White House and Democrats on the Hill, the changes sparked bitter intramural battles among Republicans for committee leadership posts. The new House majority also set in motion fundamental organizational changes to committees, and sweeping legislative initiatives aimed at rolling backthe Obama administration agenda. Meanwhile, working behind the scenes to write bills, map out legislative maneuvers and block the opposing party's political moves are hundreds of Capitol Hill staffers. Some old, many new, congressional aides on both sides of the aisle are playing a vital role in the 112th Congress. The fast-paced changes in the legislative landscape can be daunting. But there's one place you can always count on to tell you who's in, who's out, and who is the most effective person to address your cause: The Almanac of the Unelected. While members of the House of Representatives and the Senate enact laws, it is often their staffers who exert the greatest influence in the lawmaking process. Staffers advise their elected bosses, establish political positions on issues, craft legislation, put policies in place, and play important roles on scores of congressional committees. Now in its 23rd year, the Almanac of the Unelected contains in-depth profiles on key congressional staffmembers that you will not find elsewhere. In addition to contact information and other pertinent data, the Almanac is constantly updating itself to give you the inside track. Our writers conduct one-on-one interviews with congressional staffers to make sure you know precisely which issues they are handle and what bills will pass their desks each year as they help to craft new or refine the existing laws and codes that govern our nation. With all the sweeping changes that have taken place since the mid-t.