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1) Democracy
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Pub. Date
2007
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This book makes the case for recasting current theories of democracy, democratization and de-democratization.
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Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (198 pages)
Description
Part lament, part provocative call-to-action, this book charts how democracy is being diluted and restricted in five of the world's oldest democracies - the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, and New Zealand.
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Contemporary Pragmatism volume 9:2
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
320 p. : ill.
Description
This volume focuses on democratic experimentalism, gathering a collection of original and previously unpublished essays focusing upon its major outlines, as well as specific aspects - both promising and troublesome - of this theoretical approach. Together these essays offer conceptions of democracy and democratic governance that emphasize and highlight experimentalist aspects of pragmatic thought, particularly Deweyan pragmatism, and its relationship...
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In this classic and prescient book, Joseph A. Schumpeter introduced the world to the concept of "creative destruction," which forever altered how global economics is approached and perceived. Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy is essential reading for anyone who seeks to understand where the world economy is headed. --publisher.
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Series
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
vii, 195 p.
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This critical tour through recent democratic theory examines the deliberative turn in democratic theory which argued that democratic legitimacy is to be found in authentic deliberations on the part of those affected by a collective decision.
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Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (73 pages).
Description
"Democracy is the worst form of government except for all those that have been tried before." - Winston Churchill.
So how should mankind organise itself to ensure a civilised society?
In this personal, and sometimes challenging, work the author argues that an idealised form of political government has been the goal of mankind since Plato himself. But political thinking has overwhelmingly been a theoretical exercise detached from reality. Little...
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Pub. Date
c2011
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Jack Knight is professor of political science and law at Duke University and the author of Institutions and Social Conflict. James Johnson is associate professor of political science at the University of Rochester and former editor of Perspectives on Politics.
Why democracy is the best way of deciding how decisions should be made
Pragmatism and its consequences are central issues in American politics today, yet scholars rarely examine in detail...
