Democracy Without Borders?

Democracy Without Borders?
Author: Marc F. Plattner
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 182
Release: 2008
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780742559257

Democracy Without Borders? assesses the worldwide prospects of liberal democracy. In an era of globalization and in an intellectual climate in which the idea of national sovereignty is under assault, Plattner identifies the essential features of modern liberal democracy and offers guidance about what is required to sustain it. An investigation of the complex and tension-filled relationship between liberalism and majority rule is at the heart of this important book.

Liberal Democracy

Liberal Democracy
Author: Max Meyer
Publisher: Springer Nature
Total Pages: 77
Release: 2020-01-01
Genre: Comparative government
ISBN: 3030474089

This open access book aims to show which factors have been decisive in the rise of successful countries. Never before have so many people been so well off. However, prosperity is not a law of nature; it has to be worked for. A liberal economy stands at the forefront of this success - not as a political system, but as a set of economic rules promoting competition, which in turn leads to innovation, research and enormous productivity. Sustainable prosperity is built on a foundation of freedom, equal opportunity and a functioning government. This requires a stable democracy that cannot be defeated by an autocrat. Autocrats claim that "illiberalism" is more efficient, an assertion that justifies their own power. Although autocrats can efficiently guide the first steps out of poverty, once a certain level of prosperity has been achieved, people begin to demand a sense of well-being - freedom and codetermination. Only when this is possible will they feel comfortable, and progress will continue. Respect for human rights is crucial. The rules of the free market do not lean to either the right or left politically. Liberalism and the welfare state are not mutually exclusive. The "conflict" concerns the amount of government intervention. Should there be more or less? As a lawyer, entrepreneur, and board member with over 40 years of experience in this field of conflict, the author clearly describes the conditions necessary for a country to maintain its position at the top.

The People Vs. Democracy

The People Vs. Democracy
Author: Yascha Mounk
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2018-03-05
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0674976827

Uiteenzetting over de opkomst van het populisme en het gevaar daarvan voor de democratie.

Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy

Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy
Author: David M. Elcott
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2021-05-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0268200599

Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy highlights the use of religious identity to fuel the rise of illiberal, nationalist, and populist democracy. In Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy, David Elcott, C. Colt Anderson, Tobias Cremer, and Volker Haarmann present a pragmatic and modernist exploration of how religion engages in the public square. Elcott and his co-authors are concerned about the ways religious identity is being used to foster the exclusion of individuals and communities from citizenship, political representation, and a role in determining public policy. They examine the ways religious identity is weaponized to fuel populist revolts against a political, social, and economic order that values democracy in a global and strikingly diverse world. Included is a history and political analysis of religion, politics, and policies in Europe and the United States that foster this illiberal rebellion. The authors explore what constitutes a constructive religious voice in the political arena, even in nurturing patriotism and democracy, and what undermines and threatens liberal democracies. To lay the groundwork for a religious response, the book offers chapters showing how Catholicism, Protestantism, and Judaism can nourish liberal democracy. The authors encourage people of faith to promote foundational support for the institutions and values of the democratic enterprise from within their own religious traditions and to stand against the hostility and cruelty that historically have resulted when religious zealotry and state power combine. Faith, Nationalism, and the Future of Liberal Democracy is intended for readers who value democracy and are concerned about growing threats to it, and especially for people of faith and religious leaders, as well as for scholars of political science, religion, and democracy.

Liberalism Without Illusions

Liberalism Without Illusions
Author: Bernard Yack
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 306
Release: 1996-03
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9780226944708

In this tightly organized collection of essays, sixteen distinguished political theorists explore Shklar's intellectual legacy, focusing both on her own ideas and on the broad range of issues that most intrigued her. The volume opens with a series of varied and illuminating assessments of Shklar's conception of liberal politics. The second part, with essays on Descartes and Racine, Hobbes, Rousseau, and Laski, emphasizes the relation between individual freedom and moral psychology in modern political thought. The third part addresses contemporary issues, such as the role of hypocrisy, offensive speech, and constitutional courts in liberal democracies. The book concludes with an autobiographical essay by Shklar that provides a vivid sense of her singular voice and personality.

Capitalism Without Democracy

Capitalism Without Democracy
Author: Kellee S. Tsai
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2007
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780801473265

Focusing on the activities and aspirations of the private entrepreneurs who are driving China's economic growth.

Liberalism and Democracy

Liberalism and Democracy
Author: Norberto Bobbio
Publisher: Verso
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2005
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9781844670628

A magisterial introduction to the relationship between liberalism and democracy, from its beginnings in classical Greek thought to our own times.

Islam and Democracy in Indonesia

Islam and Democracy in Indonesia
Author: Jeremy Menchik
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2016-01-11
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 1107119146

This book explains how the leaders of the world's largest Islamic organizations understand tolerance, explicating how politics works in a Muslim-majority democracy.

Why America Needs a Left

Why America Needs a Left
Author: Eli Zaretsky
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2013-04-26
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0745656560

The United States today cries out for a robust, self-respecting, intellectually sophisticated left, yet the very idea of a left appears to have been discredited. In this brilliant new book, Eli Zaretsky rethinks the idea by examining three key moments in American history: the Civil War, the New Deal and the range of New Left movements in the 1960s and after including the civil rights movement, the women's movement and gay liberation.In each period, he argues, the active involvement of the left - especially its critical interaction with mainstream liberalism - proved indispensable. American liberalism, as represented by the Democratic Party, is necessarily spineless and ineffective without a left. Correspondingly, without a strong liberal center, the left becomes sectarian, authoritarian, and worse. Written in an accessible way for the general reader and the undergraduate student, this book provides a fresh perspective on American politics and political history. It has often been said that the idea of a left originated in the French Revolution and is distinctively European; Zaretsky argues, by contrast, that America has always had a vibrant and powerful left. And he shows that in those critical moments when the country returns to itself, it is on its left/liberal bases that it comes to feel most at home.

Demopolis

Demopolis
Author: Josiah Ober
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2017-07-20
Genre: History
ISBN: 1316510360

What did democracy mean before liberalism? What are the consequences for our lives today? These questions are examined by this book.