Democratick Editorials

Democratick Editorials
Author: William Leggett
Publisher: Liberty Fund
Total Pages: 440
Release: 1984
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

William Leggett (1801-1839) was the intellectual leader of the laissez-faire wing of Jacksonian democracy. His diverse writings applied the principle of equal rights to liberty and property. These editorials maintain a historical and contemporary relevance. Lawrence H. White is Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia.

Public Opinion

Public Opinion
Author: Rosalee A. Clawson
Publisher: CQ Press
Total Pages: 588
Release: 2016-03-17
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1506354629

In this revision of their lauded Public Opinion: Democratic Ideals, Democratic Practice, Rosalee A. Clawson and Zoe M. Oxley continue to link the enduring normative questions of democratic theory to the best empirical research on public opinion. Exploring the tension between ideals and their practice, each chapter focuses on exemplary studies so that students gain a richer understanding of key findings and the research process as well as see methods applied in context.

Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics

Collective Preferences in Democratic Politics
Author: Scott L. Althaus
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 388
Release: 2003-09-08
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780521527873

Since so few people appear knowledgeable about public affairs, one might question whether collective policy preferences revealed in opinion surveys accurately convey the distribution of voices and interests in a society. This study, the first comprehensive treatment of the relationship between knowledge, representation, and political equality in opinion surveys, suggests some surprising answers. Knowledge does matter, and the way it is distributed in society can cause collective preferences to reflect disproportionately the opinions of some groups more than others. Sometimes collective preferences seem to represent something like the will of the people, but frequently they do not. Sometimes they rigidly enforce political equality in the expression of political viewpoints, but often they do not. The primary culprit is not any inherent shortcoming in the methods of survey research. Rather, it is the limited degree of knowledge held by ordinary citizens about public affairs. Accounting for these factors can help survey researchers, journalists, politicians, and concerned citizens better appreciate the pitfalls and possibilities for using opinion polls to represent the people s voice.

Public Opinion

Public Opinion
Author: Rosalee A. Clawson
Publisher: CQ Press
Total Pages: 537
Release: 2020-08-04
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1544390157

Clawson and Oxley link the enduring normative questions of democratic theory to existing empirical research on public opinion. Organized around a series of questions—In a democratic society, what should be the relationship between citizens and their government? Are citizens’ opinions pliable? Are they knowledgeable, attentive, and informed?—the text explores the tension between ideals and their practice. Each chapter focuses on exemplary studies, explaining not only the conclusion of the research, but how it was conducted, so students gain a richer understanding of the research process and see methods applied in context.

Democratic Economic Planning

Democratic Economic Planning
Author: Robin Hahnel
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 317
Release: 2021-05-31
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1000392112

Democratic Economic Planning presents a concrete proposal for how to organize, carry out, and integrate comprehensive annual economic planning, investment planning, and long-run development planning so as to maximize popular participation, distribute the burdens and benefits of economic activity fairly, achieve environmental sustainability, and use scarce productive resources efficiently. The participatory planning procedures proposed provide workers in self-managed councils and consumers in neighbourhood councils with autonomy over their own activities while ensuring that they use scarce productive resources in socially responsible ways without subjecting them to competitive market forces. Certain mathematical and economic skills are required to fully understand and evaluate the planning procedures discussed and evaluated in technical sections in a number of chapters. These sections are necessary to advance the theory of democratic planning, and should be of primary interest to readers who have those skills. However, the book is written so that the main argument can be followed without fully digesting the more technical sections. Democratic Economic Planning is written for dreamers who are disenamored with the economics of competition and greed want to know how a system of equitable cooperation can be organized; and also for sceptics who demand "hard proof" that an economy without markets and private enterprise is possible.

A Preface to Democratic Theory

A Preface to Democratic Theory
Author: Robert A. Dahl
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1956
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780226134260

Robert Dahl's Preface helped launch democratic theory fifty years ago as a new area of study in political science, and it remains the standard introduction to the field. Exploring problems that had been left unsolved by traditional thought on democracy, Dahl here examines two influential models--the Madisonian, which represents prevailing American doctrine, and its recurring challenger, populist theory--arguing that they do not accurately portray how modern democracies operate. He then constructs a model more consistent with how contemporary democracies actually function, and, in doing so, develops some original views of popular sovereignty and the American constitutional system.

Participation and Democratic Theory

Participation and Democratic Theory
Author: Carole Pateman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 134
Release: 1970
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780521290043

Shows that current elitist theories are based on an inadequate understanding of the early writings of democratic theory and that much sociological evidence has been ignored.

Degrees of Democracy

Degrees of Democracy
Author: Stuart N. Soroka
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2010
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0521868335

This book develops and tests a 'thermostatic' model of public opinion and policy and examines both responsiveness and representation across a range of policy domains in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada, concluding that representative democratic government functions surprisingly well.