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Author | : Ben Keppel |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 332 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : African Americans |
ISBN | : 9780674958432 |
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By carefully tracing the public lives of Bunche, Clark, and Hansberry, Keppel shows how the mainstream media selectively appropriated the most challenging themes and goals of the struggle for racial equality so that difficult questions about the relationship between racism and American democracy could be softened, if not entirely evaded.
Author | : Robert D. Putnam |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 280 |
Release | : 1994-05-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781400820740 |
Download Making Democracy Work Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Why do some democratic governments succeed and others fail? In a book that has received attention from policymakers and civic activists in America and around the world, Robert Putnam and his collaborators offer empirical evidence for the importance of "civic community" in developing successful institutions. Their focus is on a unique experiment begun in 1970 when Italy created new governments for each of its regions. After spending two decades analyzing the efficacy of these governments in such fields as agriculture, housing, and health services, they reveal patterns of associationism, trust, and cooperation that facilitate good governance and economic prosperity.
Author | : Steven Klein |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2020-09-24 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 110847862X |
Download The Work of Politics Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This theoretically innovative book shows how democratic social movements can use the welfare state to challenge domination in society.
Author | : Danny Oppenheimer |
Publisher | : MIT Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2012-01-27 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0262300958 |
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Why democracy is the most effective form of government despite irrational (and sometime oblivious) voters and flawed (and sometimes inept) politicians. Voters often make irrational decisions based on inaccurate and irrelevant information. Politicians are often inept, corrupt, or out of touch with the will of the people. Elections can be determined by the design of the ballot and the gerrymandered borders of a district. And yet, despite voters who choose candidates according to the boxer–brief dichotomy and politicians who struggle to put together a coherent sentence, democracy works exceptionally well: citizens of democracies are healthier, happier, and freer than citizens of other countries. In Democracy Despite Itself, Danny Oppenheimer, a psychologist, and Mike Edwards, a political scientist, explore this paradox: How can democracy lead to such successful outcomes when the defining characteristic of democracy—elections—is so flawed? Oppenheimer and Edwards argue that democracy works because regular elections, no matter how flawed, produce a variety of unintuitive, positive consequences. The brilliance of democracy, write Oppenheimer and Edwards, does not lie in the people's ability to pick superior leaders. It lies in the many ways that it subtly encourages the flawed people and their flawed leaders to work toward building a better society.
Author | : James Miller |
Publisher | : Macmillan + ORM |
Total Pages | : 279 |
Release | : 2018-09-18 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0374717249 |
Download Can Democracy Work? Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
"Of all the books on democracy in recent years one of the best is James Miller’s Can Democracy Work? . . . Miller provides an intelligent journey through the turbulent past of this great human experiment in whether we can actually govern ourselves." —David Blight, The Guardian A new history of the world’s most embattled idea Today, democracy is the world’s only broadly accepted political system, and yet it has become synonymous with disappointment and crisis. How did it come to this? In Can Democracy Work? James Miller, the author of the classic history of 1960s protest Democracy Is in the Streets, offers a lively, surprising, and urgent history of the democratic idea from its first stirrings to the present. As he shows, democracy has always been rife with inner tensions. The ancient Greeks preferred to choose leaders by lottery and regarded elections as inherently corrupt and undemocratic. The French revolutionaries sought to incarnate the popular will, but many of them came to see the people as the enemy. And in the United States, the franchise would be extended to some even as it was taken from others. Amid the wars and revolutions of the twentieth century, communists, liberals, and nationalists all sought to claim the ideals of democracy for themselves—even as they manifestly failed to realize them. Ranging from the theaters of Athens to the tents of Occupy Wall Street, Can Democracy Work? is an entertaining and insightful guide to our most cherished—and vexed—ideal.
Author | : Markus M. L. Crepaz |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2000-06-16 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780472111268 |
Download Democracy and Institutions Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
How institutional engineering affects the life of democracies
Author | : Larry Diamond |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2005-11-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780801882869 |
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Author | : Richard Wolff |
Publisher | : Haymarket Books |
Total Pages | : 221 |
Release | : 2012-10-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1608462579 |
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What, and who, are we working for? A thoughtful assessment on our current society from “probably America’s most prominent Marxist economist” (The New York Times). Capitalism as a system has spawned deepening economic crisis alongside its bought-and-paid-for political establishment. Neither serves the needs of our society. Whether it is secure, well-paid, and meaningful jobs or a sustainable relationship with the natural environment that we depend on, our society is not delivering the results people need and deserve. One key cause for this intolerable state of affairs is the lack of genuine democracy in our economy as well as in our politics. The solution requires the institution of genuine economic democracy, starting with workers managing their own workplaces, as the basis for a genuine political democracy. Here Richard D. Wolff lays out a hopeful and concrete vision of how to make that possible, addressing the many people who have concluded economic inequality and politics as usual can no longer be tolerated and are looking for a concrete program of action. “Wolff’s constructive and innovative ideas suggest new and promising foundations for much more authentic democracy and sustainable and equitable development, ideas that can be implemented directly and carried forward. A very valuable contribution in troubled times.” —Noam Chomsky, leading public intellectual and author of Hope and Prospects
Author | : Brian Wampler |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2019-11-28 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 1108493149 |
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Demonstrates how specific dimensions of democracy - participation, citizenship rights, and an inclusionary state - enhance human development and well-being.
Author | : David Graeber |
Publisher | : Doubleday UK |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 081299356X |
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Explores the idea of democracy, its current state of crisis, and its potential as a tool for change, sharing historical perspectives on the effectiveness of democratic uprisings in various times and cultures.