Category: Democracy

By Julian E. Zelizer

Congress is the center and soul of our democracy, where the place pursuits are brokered, legislation are verified, and innovation is become concrete motion. it's also the place a few of democracy's maximum virtues conflict with its worst vices: idealism and compromise meet corruption and sour partisanship. the yank Congress unveils the wealthy and sundry historical past of this singular establishment. Julian E. Zelizer has collected jointly 40 essays by means of well known historians to trap the total drama, landmark laws, and so much memorable personalities of Congress. equipped round 4 significant sessions of congressional background, from the signing of the structure to the production of the dept of native land safety, this quantity brings a clean standpoint to regularly occurring watershed occasions: the Civil battle, Watergate, the Vietnam struggle. It additionally provides a behind-the-scenes examine lesser-known laws debated at the condominium and Senate flooring, reminiscent of westward enlargement and conflict powers keep an eye on. listed below are the tales at the back of the 1868 vote to question President Andrew Johnson; the increase of Jeannette Rankin, the 1st lady elected to Congress and a number one recommend for pacifism; and the talk surrounding James Eastland of Mississippi, who carried civil rights debts in his wallet so that they couldn't arise for a vote. Sidebars additional highlight notables together with Huey lengthy, Sam Rayburn, and Tip O'Neill, bringing the sweeping background of our lawmaking our bodies into sharp concentration. If you have ever questioned how Congress labored some time past or what our elected officers do this present day, this ebook supplies the enticing, usually wonderful, solutions.

By Tatu Vanhanen

This ebook offers the main broad comparative survey of the nation and prerequisites of democracy ever made. It makes a speciality of 172 modern states, with ancient facts at the measures of democracy and on explanatory variables extending again to the 1850s. It provides a accomplished exploration of democratization, its successes and screw ups, making predictions at the customers for democracy for unmarried international locations and for seven areas of the world.As good as providing empirical analyses of democratization at the foundation of Vanhanens's source distribution concept of democratization and making predictions at the customers, the ebook comprises contributions from 5 commentators, Mitchell A. Seligson on Latin the United States, Samuel Decalo and John W. Forje on Africa, John Henderson on Oceania and Ilter Turan on why many of the countires that cross Vanhanen's democratic threshold can't actually be visible as democracies. the quantity additionally contains an introductory bankruptcy which examines and compares different theoretical interpretations of democratization.Prospects for Democracy can be crucial interpreting for all critical scholars of comparative politics and democracy.

By Frank I. Michelman

In Brennan and Democracy, a number one philosopher in U.S. constitutional legislation deals a few strong reflections at the inspiration of "constitutional democracy," an idea during which many have visible the makings of paradox. the following Frank Michelman explores the it seems that conflicting commitments of a democratic governmental method the place key elements of such very important social concerns as affirmative motion, crusade finance reform, and abortion rights are settled now not via a legislative vote yet by means of the selections of unelected judges. Can we--or may still we--embrace the values of democracy including constitutionalism, judicial supervision, and the rule of thumb of legislations? to respond to this query, Michelman calls into carrier the judicial occupation of ideal courtroom Justice William Brennan, the country's version "activist" pass judgement on for the earlier 40 years. Michelman attracts on Brennan's list and writings to indicate how the Justice himself may have understood the judiciary's position within the simultaneous merchandising of either democratic and constitutional govt. the 1st bankruptcy activates us to mirror on how tricky and gentle an act it truly is for the participants of a society to try residing jointly as a humans dedicated to self-government. the second one bankruptcy seeks to resume our appreciation for democratic liberal political beliefs, and comprises an in depth therapy of Brennan's judicial critiques, which areas them in terms of opposing communitarian and libertarian positions. Michelman additionally attracts at the perspectives of 2 different famous constitutional theorists, Robert put up and Ronald Dworkin, to construct a provocative dialogue of no matter if democracy is healthier conceived as a "procedural" or a "substantive" perfect.

By Larry A. Hickman, Thomas M. Alexander

As well as being one of many maximum technical philosophers of the 20 th century, John Dewey (1859-1952) used to be a tutorial innovator, a revolutionary period reformer, and one in all America's final nice public intellectuals. Dewey's insights into the issues of public schooling, immigration, the customers for democratic govt, and the relation of non secular religion to technological know-how are as clean this day as once they have been first released. His penetrating remedies of the character and serve as of philosophy, the moral and aesthetic dimensions of lifestyles, and the position of inquiry in human adventure are of accelerating relevance on the flip of the twenty first century.Based at the award-winning 37-volume serious variation of Dewey's paintings, the fundamental Dewey provides for the 1st time a set of Dewey's writings that's either doable and accomplished. the amount contains essays and publication chapters that show Dewey's highbrow improvement through the years; the choice represents his mature considering on each significant factor to which he grew to become his recognition. 11 half divisions conceal: Dewey in Context; Reconstructing Philosophy; Evolutionary Naturalism; Pragmatic Metaphysics; behavior, behavior, and Language; that means, fact, and Inquiry; Valuation and Ethics; The goals of schooling; the person, the neighborhood, and Democracy; Pragmatism and tradition: technology and know-how, paintings and faith; and Interpretations and opinions. Taken as an entire, this assortment offers distinctive entry to Dewey's knowing of the issues and customers of human lifestyles and of the philosophical firm.

By Timothy Mitchell

How oil undermines democracy, and our skill to deal with the environmental crisis.

Oil is a curse, it is usually stated, that condemns the nations generating it to an life outlined by means of battle, corruption and massive inequality. Carbon Democracy tells a extra advanced tale, arguing that no state escapes the political outcomes of our collective dependence on oil. It shapes the physique politic either in areas equivalent to the center East, which depend upon sales from oil construction, and within the locations that experience the best call for for energy.

Timothy Mitchell starts off with the historical past of coal strength to inform an intensive new tale concerning the upward push of democracy. Coal used to be a resource of strength so open to disruption that oligarchies within the West turned susceptible for the 1st time to mass calls for for democracy. within the mid-twentieth century, in spite of the fact that, the advance of inexpensive and plentiful power from oil, such a lot significantly from the center East, provided a method to minimize this vulnerability to democratic pressures. The abundance of oil made it attainable for the 1st time in background to reorganize political lifestyles round the administration of anything now known as "the economy" and the promise of its limitless progress. The politics of the West grew to become depending on an undemocratic heart East.

In the twenty-first century, the oil-based varieties of sleek democratic politics became unsustainable. international intervention and armed forces rule are faltering within the center East, whereas governments far and wide seem incapable of addressing the crises that threaten to finish the age of carbon democracy—the disappearance of inexpensive power and the carbon-fuelled cave in of the ecological order.

In making the creation of strength the critical strength shaping the democratic age, Carbon Democracy rethinks the background of strength, the politics of nature, the idea of democracy, and where of the center East in our universal world.

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By Hermann Schmitt, Jacques Thomassen

The publication examines the democratic nature of the ecu Union and aid for eu Integration one of the voters of the member states which are a part of the Union. The ebook relies on broad surveys between humans of Europe, contributors of the ecu Parliament, and contributors of the nationwide parliaments.

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By Mariya Y. Omelicheva

Selling democracy has lengthy been a concern of Western international coverage. In perform, in spite of the fact that, overseas makes an attempt to extend consultant kinds of govt were inconsistent and are frequently perceived within the West to were disasters. The states of principal Asia, particularly, appear to be "democracy resistant," and their governments have endured to help numerous kinds of authoritarianism within the a long time following the Soviet Union's collapse.

In Democracy in relevant Asia, Mariya Omelicheva examines the ideals and values underlying overseas guidelines of the most important worldwide powers -- the us, the eu Union, Russia, and China -- so as to comprehend their efforts to steer political switch in Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan. Omelicheva has traveled widely within the quarter, amassing information from concentration teams and public opinion surveys. She attracts at the result of her fieldwork in addition to on legit files and statements of democracy-promoting countries that allows you to current a provocative new research. Her learn unearths that the governments and voters of crucial Asia have built their very own perspectives on democracy supported by way of the Russian and chinese language versions instead of through Western examples.

The overwhelming majority of past scholarly paintings in this topic has fascinated with the thoughts of democratization pursued by way of one agent comparable to the U.S. or the eu Union. Omelicheva shifts the point of interest from democracy promoters' how to their message and expands the scope of current research to incorporate a number of assets of effect. Her clean technique illuminates the entire complexity of either international and neighborhood notions of excellent governance and confirms the significance of social-psychological and language-based views in realizing the stumbling blocks to increasing egalitarianism.

By Robert J. C. Young

This key new advent, by means of one of many prime exponents within the box, explains in transparent and available language the ancient and theoretical origins of post-colonial conception. Acknowledging that post-colonial idea attracts on a large, frequently contested, variety of thought from diversified fields, younger analyzes the techniques and concerns concerned, explains the which means of key phrases, and translates the paintings of a few of the key writers involved, to supply an amazing introductory advisor for these undergraduates or lecturers coming to post-colonial idea and feedback for the 1st time.

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By Anthony McGann

The good judgment of Democracy examines a number of the broadest questions in political science—what is democracy and the way does it work—and presents a unified conception to provide an explanation for them. McGann brings jointly the customarily opposed literature on normative political philosophy, social selection, and the empirical research of political associations to teach that it's attainable to supply solutions for lots of notable difficulties general in all three. “This ranks with Riker and Mackie as the most vital works in democratic idea of the final thirty years. McGann slices via stylish nonsense like a knife via scorching butter.”--Iain McLean, Oxford University “McGann brings a number of theoretical arguments jointly to supply a coherent good judgment of majoritarian democracy and a wholehearted and finished safeguard of majority rule. particularly, he reveals advantage in what's in most cases considered as majority rule's vice — particularly biking — and he additionally exhibits that proportional illustration, now not first-past-the-post, is needed for actual majoritarianism. The e-book could be learn not only via formal theorists yet via a vast diversity of political technological know-how students and students.”--Nicholas R. Miller, college of Maryland “In The good judgment of Democracy Anthony McGann practices political technological know-how how it might be performed. he is taking a tough and significant theoretical query, specifically how we should always interpret the opportunity of majority-rule biking, pursues it single-mindedly around the unhelpful limitations raised by way of confirmed subspecialties and methodologies, and arrives at a collection of non-obvious normative and empirical effects. Will you settle with each argument he advances? definitely now not. you'll, besides the fact that, profit immensely from analyzing this exemplary book.”--Jim Johnson, collage of Rochester Anthony McGann is Assistant Professor of Political technological know-how on the college of California, Irvine.