Author: Jon Elster
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: democracy, theory, studies, cambridge, deliberative
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1998-03-28
List price: $32.99
ISBN-10: 0521596963
ISBN-13: 9780521596961
It is sometimes assumed that voting is the central mechanism for political decision making. The contributors to this volume focus on an alternative mechanism, which is decision by discussion or deliberation. This volume is characterized by a realistic approach to the issue of deliberative democracy. Rather than assuming that deliberative democracy is always ideal, the authors critically probe its limits and weaknesses as well as its strengths.Book DescriptionIt is sometimes assumed that voting is the central mechanism for political decision-making. The contributors to this volume focus on an a
Author: Frank Hendriks
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: democracy, action, theory, vital
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2010-06-06
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 019957278X
ISBN-13: 9780199572786
Vital Democracy outlines a theory of democracy in action, based on four elementary forms of democracy--pendulum, consensus, voter and participatory democracy--that are thoroughly analyzed, compared and related to both the literature and the real world of democracy. Just like a few primary colors produce an array of shades, a few basic models of democracy appear, the author argues, to constitute a wide range of democratic variants in real life.Focusing on tried and tested democratic institutions, Frank Hendriks shows that the four models of democracy--with their divergent patterns of leadership
Author: Dimitrios Roussopoulos
Publisher: Black Rose Books
Keywords: democracy, democratizing, prospects, participatory
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2003-06-01
List price: $24.99
ISBN-10: 1551642247
ISBN-13: 9781551642246
First published as a testament to the legacy of the -concept made popular by the New Left of the 1960s, and with the perspective of the intervening decades, this book opens up the way for re-examining just what our role must be in the cause of democracy. With its emphasis on citizen participation, here, presented in one volume are 20 or more of the best arguments for participatory democracy written by some of the most relevant contributors to the debate, both in an historic, and in a contemporary, sense.This wide-ranging collection probes the historical roots of participatory democracy in our
Author: Sheldon S. Woli
Publisher: Princeton University Pre
Keywords: democracy, totalitarianism, inverted, managed, incorporated, specter
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 2008-04-07
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0691135665
ISBN-13: 9780691135663
Democracy is struggling in America--by now this statement is almost cliché. But what if the country is no longer a democracy at all? In Democracy Incorporated, Sheldon Wolin considers the unthinkable: has America unwittingly morphed into a new and strange kind of political hybrid, one where economic and state powers are conjoined and virtually unbridled? Can the nation check its descent into what the author terms "inverted totalitarianism"? Wolin portrays a country where citizens are politically uninterested and submissive--and where elites are eager to keep them that way. At best the nation
Authors:Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner,
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Keywords: democracy, book, reader, journal
Number of Pages: 440
Published: 2009-08-04
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 080189378X
ISBN-13: 9780801893780
Since its inception, the Journal of Democracy has served as the premier venue for scholarship on democratization. The newest volume in the acclaimed Journal of Democracy book series, Democracy: A Reader brings together the seminal works that have appeared in its pages in nearly twenty years of publication.Democracy is in retreat around the world, giving renewed relevance and urgency to fundamental questions about the system that nevertheless remains the ideal standard of governance. Contributors ask: What exactly is democracy, and what sustains it? What institutions are best suited to a democr
Author: Douglas Yates
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Keywords: democracy, government, american, search, bureaucratic, efficiency
Number of Pages: 235
Published: 1982-05-27
List price: $57.50
ISBN-10: 0674086112
ISBN-13: 9780674086111
Although everyone agrees on the need to make government work better, few understand public bureaucracy sufficiently well to offer useful suggestions, either theoretical or practical. In fact, some consider bureaucratic efficiency incompatible with democratic government. Douglas Yates places the often competing aims of efficiency and democracy in historical perspective and then presents a unique and systematic theory of the politics of bureaucracy, which he illustrates with examples from recent history and from empirical research. He argues that the United States operates under a system of
Author: Linda J. Beck
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Keywords: democracy, senegal, clientelist, africa, brokering, rise
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2008-02-15
List price: $90.00
ISBN-10: 0230602835
ISBN-13: 9780230602830
This book examines the achievements and limitations of democratization in Senegal--and Africa more broadly--as a result of the continuing political culture of clientelism.
