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Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 187 |
Release | : 2020-05-06 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1848880375 |
The present volume, which collects some of the papers read at the First Global Conference on 'Problems of Democracy' that the Inter-Disciplinary Network organised in April-May 2010, in Prague, attempts to contribute to this debate by addressing some of the most pressing issues about democracy today.
Author | : Mary-Ann Crumplin |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Democracy |
ISBN | : 9781848880511 |
Based on papers presented at a conference held in Prague in May 2010.
Author | : Ilya Somin |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 2013-10-02 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 0804789312 |
One of the biggest problems with modern democracy is that most of the public is usually ignorant of politics and government. Often, many people understand that their votes are unlikely to change the outcome of an election and don't see the point in learning much about politics. This may be rational, but it creates a nation of people with little political knowledge and little ability to objectively evaluate what they do know. In Democracy and Political Ignorance, Ilya Somin mines the depths of ignorance in America and reveals the extent to which it is a major problem for democracy. Somin weighs various options for solving this problem, arguing that political ignorance is best mitigated and its effects lessened by decentralizing and limiting government. Somin provocatively argues that people make better decisions when they choose what to purchase in the market or which state or local government to live under, than when they vote at the ballot box, because they have stronger incentives to acquire relevant information and to use it wisely.
Author | : Yanilda María González |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2020-11-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108900380 |
In countries around the world, from the United States to the Philippines to Chile, police forces are at the center of social unrest and debates about democracy and rule of law. This book examines the persistence of authoritarian policing in Latin America to explain why police violence and malfeasance remain pervasive decades after democratization. It also examines the conditions under which reform can occur. Drawing on rich comparative analysis and evidence from Brazil, Argentina, and Colombia, the book opens up the 'black box' of police bureaucracies to show how police forces exert power and cultivate relationships with politicians, as well as how social inequality impedes change. González shows that authoritarian policing persists not in spite of democracy but in part because of democratic processes and public demand. When societal preferences over the distribution of security and coercion are fragmented along existing social cleavages, politicians possess few incentives to enact reform.
Author | : John Dunn |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 256 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : |
Why does democracy, both as a word and an idea, linger so large in the political imagination today? John Dunn charts its slow but insistent metamorphosis from its roots in Ancient Greece to its overwhelming triumph in the years since 1945. Setting the People Free is an account of this extraordinary idea and its evolution.
Author | : Sotirios Barber |
Publisher | : University Press of Kansas |
Total Pages | : 184 |
Release | : 2014-08-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0700620079 |
Americans err in thinking that while their politics may be ailing, their Constitution is fine. Sick politics is a sure sign of constitutional failure. This is Sotirios Barber’s message in Constitutional Failure. Public attitudes fostered by a consumer culture, constitution worship, the lack of a trusted leadership community, and academic historicism and value skepticism—these, this book tells us in clear and bracing terms, are at the root of our political dysfunction. Barber characterizes the Constitution as a plan of government—a set of means to public purposes like national security and prosperity. He argues that if the government is failing, it’s fair to conclude that the plan is failing and that laws that are supposed to serve as means can’t in reason continue to bind when they no longer work. He argues further that constitutional success depends ultimately on a stratum of diverse and self-critical citizens, who see each other as moral equals and parts of one national community. These citizens, with the politicians among them, would be good-faith contestants regarding the meaning of the common good and the most effective means to secure it. In this way—showing how the success of a constitutional democracy is more a matter of political attitudes than of institutional performance—Barber’s book upends the conventional understanding of constitutional failure. In Barber’s analysis, the apparent stability of formal constitutional institutions—usually interpreted as evidence of constitutional health—may actually indicate the defining element of constitutional failure: a mentally inert citizenry no longer capable of constitutional reflection and reform. At once concise and thorough in its analysis of the concept of constitutional failure and its accounts of a “healthy politics,” the corrosive impact of Madisonian checks and balances (as a substitute for trustworthy leadership), and the outlook for meaningful reform, this book offers a carefully reasoned and provocative assessment of the viability of constitutional governance in the United States.
Author | : Philip Oxhorn |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0271048948 |
"Devoting particular emphasis to Bolivia, Chile, and Mexico, proposes a theory of civil society to explain the economic and political challenges for continuing democratization in Latin America"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Brian Bridges |
Publisher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 311 |
Release | : 2010-01-29 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1849806349 |
This book documents the search for a workable model of democracy in Asia. It explores the various forms of Asian democracy practiced to date, and throws light on where these models may have failed and where they may have succeeded. The case studies developed provide valuable insights into governance and democracy in Asia (North-east, South-east and South) a region that remains fascinating and dynamic despite the impact of the recent global crisis. The book concludes that whilst there may not be a model that works best in all regions, a key ingredient to a workable model must include sound gove.
Author | : Carolyn M. Hendriks |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2020-10-20 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0198843054 |
This book develops the idea of democratic mending as a way of advancing a more connective and systemic approach to democratic repair.
Author | : Jon Elster |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 300 |
Release | : 1998-03-28 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9780521596961 |
This volume assesses the strengths and weaknesses of deliberative democracy.