Democratic Responsibility

Author : Nora Hanagan
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
ISBN 13 : 026810607X
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democratic Responsibility written by Nora Hanagan and published by University of Notre Dame Pess. This book was released on 2019-08-31 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American society is often described as one that celebrates self-reliance and personal responsibility. However, abolitionists, progressive reformers, civil rights activists, and numerous others often held their fellow citizens responsible for shared problems such as economic exploitation and white supremacy. Moreover, they viewed recognizing and responding to shared problems as essential to achieving democratic ideals. In Democratic Responsibility, Nora Hanagan examines American thinkers and activists who offered an alternative to individualistic conceptions of responsibility and puts them in dialogue with contemporary philosophers who write about shared responsibility. Drawing on the political theory and practice of Henry David Thoreau, Jane Addams, Martin Luther King Jr., and Audre Lorde, Hanagan develops a distinctly democratic approach to shared responsibility. Cooperative democracy is especially relevant in an age of globalization and hyperconnectivity, where societies are continually threatened with harms—such as climate change, global sweatshop labor, and structural racism—that result from the combined interactions of multiple individuals and institutions, and which therefore cannot be resolved without collective action. Democratic Responsibility offers insight into how political actors might confront seemingly intractable problems, and challenges conventional understandings of what commitment to democratic ideals entails. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of political science, especially those who look to the history of political thought for resources that might promote social justice in the present.

Author : Ralph Hancock
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1442207396
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Responsibility of Reason written by Ralph Hancock and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2011-01-16 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Responsibility of Reason, Ralph C. Hancock undertakes no less than to answer the Heideggerian challenge. Offering trenchant and original interpretations of Aristotle, Heidegger, Strauss, and Alexis de Tocqueville, he argues that Tocqueville saw the essential more clearly than apparently deeper philosophers. Hancock addresses political theorists on the question of the grounding of liberalism, and, at the same time, philosophers on the most basic questions of the meaning and limits of reason. Moreover, he shows how these questions are for us inseparable.

Author : Adam Przeworski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521646161
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy, Accountability, and Representation written by Adam Przeworski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-09-13 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 6 Party Government and Responsiveness: James A. Stimson

Author : Arthur Twining Hadley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 202 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Relations Between Freedom and Responsibility in the Evolution of Democratic Government written by Arthur Twining Hadley and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Arthur Twining Hadley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Relation Between Freedom and Responsibility in the Evolution of Democratic Government written by Arthur Twining Hadley and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frances Rosenbluth
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300241054
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Responsible Parties written by Frances Rosenbluth and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politics In recent decades, democracies across the world have adopted measures to increase popular involvement in political decisions. Parties have turned to primaries and local caucuses to select candidates; ballot initiatives and referenda allow citizens to enact laws directly; many places now use proportional representation, encouraging smaller, more specific parties rather than two dominant ones.Yet voters keep getting angrier.There is a steady erosion of trust in politicians, parties, and democratic institutions, culminating most recently in major populist victories in the United States, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. Frances Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro argue that devolving power to the grass roots is part of the problem. Efforts to decentralize political decision-making have made governments and especially political parties less effective and less able to address constituents’ long-term interests. They argue that to restore confidence in governance, we must restructure our political systems to restore power to the core institution of representative democracy: the political party.

Author : Nora Hanagan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780268106089
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democratic Responsibility written by Nora Hanagan and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "American society is often described as one that celebrates self-reliance and personal responsibility. However, abolitionists, progressive reformers, civil rights activists, and numerous others often held their fellow citizens responsible for shared problems such as economic exploitation and white supremacy. Moreover, they viewed recognizing and responding to shared problems as essential to achieving democratic ideals. In Democratic Responsibility, Nora Hanagan examines American thinkers and activists who offered an alternative to individualistic conceptions of responsibility and puts them in dialogue with contemporary philosophers who write about shared responsibility. Drawing on the political theory and practice of Henry David Thoreau, Jane Addams, Martin Luther King Jr., and Audre Lorde, Hanagan develops a distinctly democratic approach to shared responsibility. Cooperative democracy is especially relevant in an age of globalization and hyperconnectivity, where societies are continually threatened with harms--such as climate change, global sweatshop labor, and structural racism--that result from the combined interactions of multiple individuals and institutions, and which therefore cannot be resolved without collective action. Democratic Responsibility offers insight into how political actors might confront seemingly intractable problems, and challenges conventional understandings of what commitment to democratic ideals entails. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of political science, especially those who look to the history of political thought for resources that might promote social justice in the present"--

Author : Robert D. Behn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 9780815798101
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Democratic Accountability written by Robert D. Behn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2004-05-26 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditionally, American government has created detailed, formal procedures to ensure that its agencies and employees are accountable for finances and fairness. Now in the interest of improved performance, we are asking our front-line workers to be more responsive, we are urging our middle managers to be innovative, and we are exhorting our public executives to be entrepreneurial. Yet what is the theory of democratic accountability that empowers public employees to exercise such discretion while still ensuring that we remain a government of laws? How can government be responsive to the needs of individual citizens and still remain accountable to the entire polity? In Rethinking Democratic Accountability, Robert D. Behn examines the ambiguities, contradictions, and inadequacies in our current systems of accountability for finances, fairness, and performance. Weaving wry observations with political theory, Behn suggests a new model of accountability—with "compacts of collective, mutual responsibility"—to address new paradigms for public management.

Author : Center for Civic Education, Calabasas, CA.
Publisher : Center for Civic Education
ISBN 13 : 9780898181500
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Democracy written by Center for Civic Education, Calabasas, CA. and published by Center for Civic Education. This book was released on 1993 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces students to the four ideas which are basic to our constitutional form of government: authority, privacy, responsibility, and justice.

Author : Sjur Bergan
Publisher : Council of Europe
ISBN 13 : 9789287175373
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reimagining Democratic Societies written by Sjur Bergan and published by Council of Europe. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reimagining democratic societies, although a demanding task, is one in which higher education must engage. As societies change, our understanding of democracy must also evolve. We need democratic institutions, but also democratic culture and democratic innovation. Citizen participation, as a cornerstone of democracy, must go beyond citizen mobilisation on just a few issues. An educated, committed citizenry deeply involved in creating and sustaining diverse democratic societies is essential for human progress and advancing the quality of life for all. The authors - academics, policy makers and practitioners from Europe and the United States - argue this point, making the case for why democratic reimagination and innovation cannot succeed without higher education and why higher education cannot fulfil its educational, academic and societal missions without working for the common good. Case studies provide examples of how higher education can contribute to reimagining and reinvigorating democracy.