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Author : Duane E. Campbell
Publisher : Merrill Publishing Company
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Choosing Democracy written by Duane E. Campbell and published by Merrill Publishing Company. This book was released on 1996 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Frances Moore Lappe
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 0787983357
Total Pages : 493 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (879 download)
Download or read book Democracy's Edge written by Frances Moore Lappe and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2005-10-28 with total page 493 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three out of five Americans, both Republicans and Democrats, feel our country is headed in the wrong direction. America is at the edge, a critical place at which we can either renew and revitalize or give in and lose that most precious American ideal--democracy--and along with it the freedom, fairness, and opportunities it assures. Democracy's Edge is a rousing battle cry that we can--and must--act now. From Jefferson to Eisenhower, presidents from both parties have warned us of the danger of letting a closed, narrow group of business and government officials concentrate power over our lives. Yet today, a small and unrepresentative group of people is making vital decisions for all of us. But this crisis is only a symptom, Lappé argues. It's a symptom of thin democracy, something done to us or for us, not by or with us. Such democracy is always at risk of being stolen by private interests or extremist groups, left and right. But there is a solution. The answer, says Lappé, is Living Democracy, a powerful yet often invisible citizens' revolution surging in communities across America. It's not random, disjointed activism but the emergence of a new historical stage of democracy in which Americans realize that democracy isn't something we have but something we do. Either we live it or lose it, says Lappé.
Author : Markus Prior
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521858720
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)
Download or read book Post-Broadcast Democracy written by Markus Prior and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-04-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 2007 book studies the impact of the media on politics in the United States during the last half-century.
Author : Amel Ahmed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107031613
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)
Download or read book Democracy and the Politics of Electoral System Choice written by Amel Ahmed and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the dynamics of electoral system choice and raises questions about the democratic credentials of the early processes of democratization.
Author : S.M. Amadae
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226016544
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (26 download)
Download or read book Rationalizing Capitalist Democracy written by S.M. Amadae and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2003-10-15 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offering a fascinating biography of a foundational theory, Amadae reveals not only how the ideological battles of the Cold War shaped ideas but also how those ideas may today be undermining the very notion of individual liberty they were created to defend.
Author : Larry Diamond
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421418185
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Democracy in Decline? written by Larry Diamond and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Is Democracy in Decline? is a short book that takes up the fascinating question on whether this once-revolutionary form of government--the bedrock of Western liberalism--is fast disappearing. Has the growth of corporate capitalism, mass economic inequality, and endemic corruption reversed the spread of democracy worldwide? In this incisive collection, leading thinkers address this disturbing and critically important issue. Published as part of the National Endowment for Democracy's 25th anniversary--and drawn from articles forthcoming in the Journal of Democracy--this collection includes seven essays from a stellar group of democracy scholars: Francis Fukuyama, Robert Kagan, Thomas Carothers, Marc Plattner, Larry Diamond, Philippe Schmitter, Steven Levitsky, Ivan Krastev, and Lucan Way. Written in a thought-provoking style from seven different perspectives, this book provides an eye-opening look at how the very foundation of Western political culture may be imperiled"--
Author : Duane E. Campbell
Publisher : Prentice Hall
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 436 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Choosing Democracy written by Duane E. Campbell and published by Prentice Hall. This book was released on 2000 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text is appropriate for any course in Multicultural Education or Multicultural Curriculum. This book takes a strong social reconstructionist approach in advocating democratic school reform. It focuses on empowerment and provides detailed descriptions of teaching strategies to achieve it. Based on the experiences of hundreds of future teachers in multicultural education courses, this text offers concrete teaching alternatives that can be used in the classroom to respond to the issues of racism, sexism, gender, and class bias.* NEW-Emphasizes democratic, as opposed to arbitrary, forms of management, in the significantly revised chapter titled Democracy and Classroom Management. * Students are guided to develop their management systems based upon democratic theory. * NEW-Features seven contributors to the text. * Brings increased diversity to the topics of race relations, gender, language acquisition, standards as a strategy for reform, and the analysis of school reform efforts. * NEW-Updates economic data. * Reflects the issues of international economic competition. * NEW-Adds new biographies and related activities. * Encourages students to write their own lessons using critic
Author : Jos‰ Casas Pardo
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781847205285
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)
Download or read book Public Choice and the Challenges of Democracy written by Jos‰ Casas Pardo and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2007-01-01 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This timely and important volume addresses the serious challenges faced by democracy in contemporary society. With contributions from some of the world's most prestigious scholars of public choice and political science, this comprehensive collection p
Author : Reuven Y. Hazan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199572542
Total Pages : 221 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)
Download or read book Democracy Within Parties written by Reuven Y. Hazan and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-07 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text presents a new approach to understanding political parties. It sheds light on the inner dynamics of party politics and offers a comprehensive analysis of one of the most important processes any party undertakes, its process of candidate selection.
Author : Ilya Somin
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804789312
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)
Download or read book Democracy and Political Ignorance written by Ilya Somin and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the biggest problems with modern democracy is that most of the public is usually ignorant of politics and government. Often, many people understand that their votes are unlikely to change the outcome of an election and don't see the point in learning much about politics. This may be rational, but it creates a nation of people with little political knowledge and little ability to objectively evaluate what they do know. In Democracy and Political Ignorance, Ilya Somin mines the depths of ignorance in America and reveals the extent to which it is a major problem for democracy. Somin weighs various options for solving this problem, arguing that political ignorance is best mitigated and its effects lessened by decentralizing and limiting government. Somin provocatively argues that people make better decisions when they choose what to purchase in the market or which state or local government to live under, than when they vote at the ballot box, because they have stronger incentives to acquire relevant information and to use it wisely.
Author : Duane E. Campbell
Publisher : Pearson
ISBN 13 : 9780135034811
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (348 download)
Download or read book Choosing Democracy written by Duane E. Campbell and published by Pearson. This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike most other texts for Multicultural Education on the market, this one provides practical and useful teaching strategies and class-tested lesson plans, as well as a foundation for understanding the context of multicultural education. Choosing Democracy was the first text of its kind to show teachers how to construct a curriculum that is truly democratic, while at the same time meeting the requirements of today's standard's based educational environment. Most new teachers are not prepared to face the diversity of the classrooms of today. Nor are they prepared to handle the many challenging issues that will arise in these multicultural and multilingual classes. This book gives solid and substantial coverage of important issues facing teachers such as classroom management, critical thinking, cooperative learning, assisting English Language Learners, dealing with substantive values, and assessment. It also teaches educators to formulate a deeper understanding of their own cultural frame of reference in order to develop a second multicultural perspective. New To This Edition: NEW! Provides ideas for teachers looking to change their curriculum in Chapter 12. NEW! Includes a new section with a new co-author, (Dr. Francisco Reveles) an expert on gang related behavior and bullying. NEW! Illustrates ways to manage a classroom based on democratic principles and cultural proficiency-makes the text valuable to even the most reluctant reader. NEW! Contains a new section on integrating technology and using the Internet in the classroom. NEW! Features a thoroughly revised Chapter 13-Explains the major efforts at school reform and The No Child Left Behind Act.
Author : Josep M. Colomer
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 9780191529252
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (292 download)
Download or read book Political Institutions written by Josep M. Colomer and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2001-02-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The role of institutions is to establish the domains of public activity and the rules to select leaders. Democratic regimes organize in simple institutional frameworks to foster the concentration of power and alternative successive absolute winners and losers. They favour political satisfaction of relatively small groups, as well as policy instability. In contrast, pluralistic institutions produce multiple winners, including multiparty co-operation and agreements. They favour stable, moderate, and consensual policies that can satisfy large groups' interests on a great number of issues. The more complex the political institutions, the more stable and socially efficient the outcome will be. This book develops an extensive analysis of this relationship. It explores concepts, questions and insights based on social choice theory, while empirical focus is cast on more than 40 democratic countries and a few international organizations from late medieval times to the present. The book argues that pluralistic democratic institutions are judged to be better than simple formula of their higher capacity of producing socially satisfactory results.
Author : Bernard Grofman
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472083435
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (834 download)
Download or read book Information, Participation, and Choice written by Bernard Grofman and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A review of the consequences for political science of Anthony Downs's seminal work.
Author : David de la Pena
Publisher : Island Press
ISBN 13 : 1610918479
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (19 download)
Download or read book Design as Democracy written by David de la Pena and published by Island Press. This book was released on 2017-12-07 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we design places that fulfill urgent needs of the community, achieve environmental justice, and inspire long-term stewardship? By bringing community members to the table with designers to collectively create vibrant, important places in cities and neighborhoods. For decades, participatory design practices have helped enliven neighborhoods and promote cultural understanding. Yet, many designers still rely on the same techniques that were developed in the 1950s and 60s. These approaches offer predictability, but hold waning promise for addressing current and future design challenges. Design as Democracy is written to reinvigorate democratic design, providing inspiration, techniques, and case stories for a wide range of contexts. Edited by six leading practitioners and academics in the field of participatory design, with nearly 50 contributors from around the world, it offers fresh insights for creating meaningful dialogue between designers and communities and for transforming places with justice and democracy in mind.
Author : Daniel O. Prosterman
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195377737
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)
Download or read book Defining Democracy written by Daniel O. Prosterman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Defining Democracy reveals the history of a little-known experiment in urban democracy begun in New York City during the Great Depression and abolished amid the early Cold War. For a decade, New Yorkers utilized a new voting system that produced the most diverse legislatures in the city's history and challenged the American two-party structure. Daniel O. Prosterman examines struggles over electoral reform in New York City to clarify our understanding of democracy's evolution in the United States and the world.
Author : David Altman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108496636
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Citizenship and Contemporary Direct Democracy written by David Altman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers a comparative study of the origins, performance, and reform of contemporary mechanisms of direct democracy.
Author : Michael Maurice Loriaux
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801424830
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (248 download)
Download or read book France After Hegemony written by Michael Maurice Loriaux and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How does the decline of the hegemon--the dominant, rule-making power of the international system--affect middle-level nations? By examining monetary and credit policy in postwar France, Michael Loriaux illuminates this question, tracing the relationship of domestic economic reform to specific changes in the international political economy which have resulted from U.S. hegemonic decline.
