Columns Of Democracy

Author : Nicholas Johnson
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1387911295
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Columns of Democracy written by Nicholas Johnson and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2018-07-27 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracies are under attack in many countries including our own. Wannabe dictators feel threatened by democraciesÕ existence. Their destructive efforts are abetted by democraciesÕ citizen apathy. This book examines the institutions, the ÒcolumnsÓ that support democracy. They include such institutions as independent media, K-12 and higher education, respected, independent judges, accessible voting systems, and public libraries. These institutions support both an active citizenry and meaningful checks on executivesÕ abuses. This book calls Americans to action Ð with suggestions. It also contains the authorÕs ÒcolumnsÓ Ð an example of citizen use of the column of democracy called media.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 58 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Three Pillars of Democracy written by and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : George Szpiro
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691209081
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Numbers Rule written by George Szpiro and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author takes the general reader on a tour of the mathematical puzzles and paradoxes inherent in voting systems, such as the Alabama Paradox, in which an increase in the number of seats in the Congress could actually lead to a reduced number of representatives for a state, and the Condorcet Paradox, which demonstrates that the winner of elections featuring more than two candidates does not necessarily reflect majority preferences. Szpiro takes a roughly chronological approach to the topic, traveling from ancient Greece to the present and, in addition to offering explanations of the various mathematical conundrums of elections and voting, also offers biographical details on the mathematicians and other thinkers who thought about them, including Plato, Pliny the Younger, Pierre Simon Laplace, Thomas Jefferson, John von Neumann, and Kenneth Arrow.

Author : Robert A. Dahl
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300254059
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book On Democracy written by Robert A. Dahl and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by the preeminent democratic theorist of our time, this book explains the nature, value, and mechanics of democracy. In a new introduction to this Veritas edition, Ian Shapiro considers how Dahl would respond to the ongoing challenges democracy faces in the modern world. "Within the liberal democratic camp there is considerable controversy about exactly how to define democracy. Probably the most influential voice among contemporary political scientists in this debate has been that of Robert Dahl."--Marc Plattner, New York Times "An excellent introduction for novices, as well as a trusty handbook for experts and political science mavens."--Publishers Weekly

Author : Rhodes P. J. Rhodes
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 1474471986
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Athenian Democracy written by Rhodes P. J. Rhodes and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athens' democracy developed during the sixth and fifth centuries and continued into the fourth; Athens' defeat by Macedon in 322 began a series of alternations between democracy and oligarchy. The democracy was inseparably bound up with the ideals of liberty and equality, the rule of law, and the direct government of the people by the people. Liberty meant above all freedom of speech, the right to be heard in the public assembly and the right to speak one's mind in private. Equality meant the equal right of the male citizens (perhaps 60,000 in the fifth century, 30,000 in the fourth) to participate in the government of the state and the administration of the law. Disapproved of as mob rule until the nineteenth century, the institutions of Athenian democracy have become an inspiration for modern democratic politics and political philosophy. P. J. Rhodes's reader focuses on the political institutions, political activity, history, and nature of Athenian democracy and introduces some of the best British, American, German and French scholarship on its origins, theory and practice. Part I is devoted to political institutions: citizenship, the assembly, the law-courts, and capital punishment. Part II explores aspects of political activity: the demagogues and their relationship with the assembly, the manoeuvrings of the politicians, competitive festivals, and the separation of public from private life. Part III looks at three crucial points in the development of the democracy: the reforms of Solon, Cleisthenes and Ephialtes. Part IV considers what it was in Greek life that led to the development of democracy. Some of the authors adopt broad-brush approaches to major questions; others analyse a particular body of evidence in detail. Use is made of archaeology, comparison with other societies, the location of festivals in their civic context, and the need to penetrate behind what the classical Athenians made of their past.

Author : Ms.Prachi Mishra
Publisher : International Monetary Fund
ISBN 13 : 1455201847
Total Pages : 41 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy and Reforms written by Ms.Prachi Mishra and published by International Monetary Fund. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 41 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Empirical evidence on the relationship between democracy and economic reforms is limited to few reforms, countries, and years. This paper studies the impact of democracy on the adoption of economic reforms using a new dataset on reforms in the financial, capital and banking sectors, product markets, agriculture, and trade for 150 countries over the period 1960 - 2004. Democracy has a positive and significant impact on the adoption of economic reforms but there is no evidence that economic reforms foster democracy. Our results are robust to the inclusion of a large variety of controls and estimation strategies.

Author : Abel Escribà-Folch
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069122305X
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Migration and Democracy written by Abel Escribà-Folch and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-11 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How remittances—money sent by workers back to their home countries—support democratic expansion In the growing body of work on democracy, little attention has been paid to its links with migration. Migration and Democracy focuses on the effects of worker remittances—money sent by migrants back to their home countries—and how these resources shape political action in the Global South. Remittances are not only the largest source of foreign income in most autocratic countries, but also, in contrast to foreign aid or international investment, flow directly to citizens. As a result, they provide resources that make political opposition possible, and they decrease government dependency, undermining the patronage strategies underpinning authoritarianism. The authors discuss how international migration produces a decentralized flow of income that generally circumvents governments to reach citizens who act as democratizing agents. Documenting why dictatorships fall and how this process has changed in the last three decades, the authors show that remittances increase the likelihood of protest and reduce electoral support for authoritarian incumbents. Combining global macroanalysis with microdata and case studies of Senegal and Cambodia, Migration and Democracy demonstrates how remittances—and the movement of people from authoritarian nations to higher-income countries—foster democracy and its expansion.

Author : Lynn Haines
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Searchlight on Congress, and on the Democracy which Gives it Existence (title Varies Slightly) written by Lynn Haines and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Christopher Lord
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0230211682
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy in the New Europe written by Christopher Lord and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2017-09-16 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Behind the façade of democracy are a number of unanswered questions, foremost among them how to relate democracy beyond the state especially at the EU level to democracy within the state. This important new text provides a wide-ranging assessment of the theory and practice of democracy at all levels in Europe today.

Author : Katrin Auel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136753494
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Europeanisation of Parliamentary Democracy written by Katrin Auel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-05-04 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This groundbreaking new study shows how the process of creating an ever closer European Union affects not only the policy-making, but also the politics and polity of the Member States. Empirical studies on the domestic impact of Europe identified different forms of Europeanization due to alternative mechanisms of internalising the new norms and rules. Although many studies have since focused on the question of how, to what degree, in what direction, at what pace, and at what point of time "Europe matters", the Europeanization of one particular structural determinant of the Member States, namely the system of parliamentary democracy, is still under-researched. This is all the more astonishing as democracy in the EU depends to a large extent on the democratic legitimacy of procedures at the national level. This volume addresses the key issue of the Europeanisation of parliamentary systems and thus contributes to the ongoing debate on the parliamentary dimension of the European Union. It brings together theoretical concepts as well as cross-national empirical research on the Europeanization of the member states’ parliamentary systems, focussing on different elements such as structures, procedures and decision-making processes as well as on the question how parliamentarians as actors react to these changes and actively shape this Europeanization. This book was previously published as a special issue of The Journal of Legislative Studies.