Foundations For Democracy

Author : Jürg Steiner
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107015030
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Foundations of Deliberative Democracy written by Jürg Steiner and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-21 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines the interplay between the normative and empirical aspects of the deliberative model of democracy.

Author : John H. Hallowell
Publisher : Amagi Books
ISBN 13 : 9780865976696
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moral Foundation of Democracy written by John H. Hallowell and published by Amagi Books. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hallowell makes a significant argument in favour of the importance of moral values in the orderly functioning of modern democracies. Hallowell begins with a survey of the role that classical liberalism and faith in man as a reasonable, moral, and spiritual actor played in the emergence of democratic self-government. He sharply criticises positivist thought and moral relativism as direct challenges to the notion that transcendent truths guide individuals in their actions and influence how people participate in a democratic society. Hallowell reminds us that at its core, a well-functioning democracy must be based on a fundamental respect for the dignity of the individual.

Author : Ian Shapiro
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300189753
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moral Foundations of Politics written by Ian Shapiro and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-30 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When do governments merit our allegiance, and when should they be denied it? Ian Shapiro explores this most enduring of political dilemmas in this innovative and engaging book. Building on his highly popular Yale courses, Professor Shapiro evaluates the main contending accounts of the sources of political legitimacy. Starting with theorists of the Enlightenment, he examines the arguments put forward by utilitarians, Marxists, and theorists of the social contract. Next he turns to the anti-Enlightenment tradition that stretches from Edmund Burke to contemporary post-modernists. In the last part of the book Shapiro examines partisans and critics of democracy from Plato’s time until our own. He concludes with an assessment of democracy’s strengths and limitations as the font of political legitimacy. The book offers a lucid and accessible introduction to urgent ongoing conversations about the sources of political allegiance.

Author : Nir Kedar
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253057450
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)

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Download or read book David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy written by Nir Kedar and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-12-07 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy, Nir Kedar offers a poignant study of the primary national founder of the State of Israel and the first prime minister of Israel. Kedar provides an explication of the making of Israeli democracy in terms of its institutional-legal structures and social-cultural underpinnings. David Ben-Gurion and the Foundation of Israeli Democracy connects the formal structures of democracy to the fundamental principles that they were constructed to serve—human freedom and dignity.

Author : Rob Reich
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691202273
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Just Giving written by Rob Reich and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The troubling ethics and politics of philanthropy Is philanthropy, by its very nature, a threat to today’s democracy? Though we may laud wealthy individuals who give away their money for society’s benefit, Just Giving shows how such generosity not only isn’t the unassailable good we think it to be but might also undermine democratic values. Big philanthropy is often an exercise of power, the conversion of private assets into public influence. And it is a form of power that is largely unaccountable and lavishly tax-advantaged. Philanthropy currently fails democracy, but Rob Reich argues that it can be redeemed. Just Giving investigates the ethical and political dimensions of philanthropy and considers how giving might better support democratic values and promote justice.

Author : John Higley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742568555
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elite Foundations of Liberal Democracy written by John Higley and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2006-07-27 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This compelling and convincing study represents the culmination of the authors' several decades of research on the pivotal role played by elites in the success or failure of political regimes. Revising the classical theory of elites and politics, John Higley and Michael Burton distinguish basic types of elites and associated political regimes. They canvas political change during the modern historical and contemporary periods to identify circumstances and ways in which the sine qua non of liberal democracy, a consensually united elite, has formed and persisted. The book considers an impressive body of cases, examining how consensually united elites have fostered forty-five liberal democracies and how disunited or ideologically united elites have thus far prevented liberal democracy in more than one hundred other countries. The authors argue that obstacles to the emergence of elites propitious for liberal democracy are more formidable than democratization enthusiasts recognize. They assess prospects for the transformation of disunited and ideologically united elites where they now exist, ask whether current challenges to Western liberal democracies will undermine their consensually united elites, and explore what the rise of the distinctive elite clustered around George W. Bush may portend for America's liberal democracy. The authors' powerful and important argument reframes our thinking about liberal democracy and questions optimistic assumptions about the prospects for its spread in the twenty-first century.

Author : Alexander Mohr
Publisher : Universal-Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1599423316
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The German Political Foundations As Actors in Democracy Assistance written by Alexander Mohr and published by Universal-Publishers. This book was released on 2010 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Germany, political foundations (Stiftungen) play an important role in shaping civil society through political democracy education. The foundations, however, have also committed themselves to strengthening democratic political and societal structures abroad. Their joint mission abroad is the contribution to democratic structures, information and debate in the countries and regions they are working in. They complement the official German foreign policy, but choose their own priorities and strategies. The focus of this thesis is the German political foundations as actors in democracy assistance. 'Democracy assistance' focuses less on the aspects of technical assistance but much more on political parties and the promotion of civil society as the backbone of democracy. Democracy assistance is a relatively recent international development activity of governments and international organizations. In recent years the international community has come to realize the importance of political parties and a well-functioning political party system for the process of democratisation. Here the German political foundations are working internationally as actors in democracy assistance - independent from the German government but at the same time fully state-funded. The objectives of this dissertation are to understand the work and strategies of the German political foundations as actors in the context of democracy assistance abroad, research their partner spectrums on selected countries, to identify their short comings and to give an outlook of the foundations work in the future in the fast-changing global political environment.

Author : Lance DeHaven-Smith
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 430 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Representative Democracy written by Lance DeHaven-Smith and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 1999 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Foundations of Representative Democracy analyzes a unique collection of works. This book relates how great philosophers of political theory such as Plato, Aristotle, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Thomas Jefferson contributed to what we now know as «representative democracy». Professor deHaven-Smith enhancesthe reader's comprehension and ability to identify the nexus between classical ideas and representative democracy by discussing major themes, key points, and implications found in these classical works. This is an excellent resource for anyone involved in government - ranging from public administrators to politicians to academia and students.

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Publisher : Center for Civic Education
ISBN 13 : 9780898181524
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Foundations of Democracy written by and published by Center for Civic Education. This book was released on 1995 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ellen Meiksins Wood
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1784781975
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Peasant-Citizen and Slave written by Ellen Meiksins Wood and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The controversial thesis at the center of this study is that, despite the importance of slavery in Athenian society, the most distinctive characteristic of Athenian democracy was the unprecedented prominence it gave to free labor. Wood argues that the emergence of the peasant as citizen, juridically and politically independent, accounts for much that is remarkable in Athenian political institutions and culture. From a survey of historical writings of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the focus of which distorted later debates, Wood goes on to take issue with influential arguments, such as those of G.E.M. de Ste Croix, about the importance of slavery in agricultural production. The social, political and cultural influence of the peasant-citizen is explored in a way which questions some of the most cherished conventions of Marxist and non-Marxist historiography.