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Author : William R. Keech
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Classical Democratic Theory and the Classical Democratic Citizen written by William R. Keech and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Carole Pateman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521290043
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (9 download)
Download or read book Participation and Democratic Theory written by Carole Pateman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows that current elitist theories are based on an inadequate understanding of the early writings of democratic theory and that much sociological evidence has been ignored.
Author : Graeme Campbell Duncan
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521242097
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (42 download)
Download or read book Democratic Theory and Practice written by Graeme Campbell Duncan and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1983-04-28 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In past decades, democratic theory has been on the defensive, largely as a result of the disappointments of democratic practice. The essays in this volume reflect critically on the theory in the light of those failures and with the corresponding assumption of an indissoluble connection between theory and practice. If theory maintains a monastic impeccability, untouched by the world, it will be sterile and fit merely for arid disputes. Nor can practice stand alone: it varies and changes and is subject to different interpretations. Success will come to it partly through the impact of empirical and prescriptive analysis. The volume is organised in sections, dealing in turn with the changing meanings and evaluations of democracy with classical theories with the revisions and critiques of these theories deriving from existing circumstances and with attempts to extend and to consolidate more adequate and secure theories of democracy. Among the thinkers considered are Mill, de Tocqueville, Marx and Marcuse, while the topics include bureaucracy, feminism, corporatism and social democracy. Together the essays will provide comprehensive review of the past condition and future prospects for democratic theory in practice.
Author : Steven M. Cahn
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 153815756X
Total Pages : 473 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (381 download)
Download or read book The Democracy Reader written by Steven M. Cahn and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-07-13 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracies put political power in the hands of the people. But why should people have a say in the operations of the states that govern them? Are democratic states preferable to non-democratic states? If so, is there something intrinsically good about democracy, or does it merely serve an instrumental role? By what procedures should citizens’ votes be counted? How do we keep the voices of the ignorant from drowning out those of the wise? These, as well as other related questions, are explored in this timely anthology of forty historical and contemporary readings. Short introductions preceding each reading and a general introduction increase student comprehension across the spectrum of readings. With each reading edited for length and accessibility, this volume is ideal for both the undergraduate and graduate students in political theory and philosophy courses.
Author : Susan Lape
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139484125
Total Pages : 357 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)
Download or read book Race and Citizen Identity in the Classical Athenian Democracy written by Susan Lape and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 357 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Race and Citizen Identity in the Classical Athenian Democracy, Susan Lape demonstrates how a race ideology grounded citizen identity. Although this ideology did not manifest itself in a fully developed race myth, its study offers insight into the causes and conditions that can give rise to race and racisms in both modern and pre-modern cultures. In the Athenian context, racial citizenship emerged because it both defined and justified those who were entitled to share in the political, symbolic, and socioeconomic goods of Athenian citizenship. By investigating Athenian law, drama, and citizenship practices, this study shows how citizen identity worked in practice to consolidate national unity and to account for past Athenian achievements. It also considers how Athenian identity narratives fuelled Herodotus' and Thucydides' understanding of history and causation.
Author : Josiah Ober
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 1400828805
Total Pages : 363 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (8 download)
Download or read book Democracy and Knowledge written by Josiah Ober and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 363 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When does democracy work well, and why? Is democracy the best form of government? These questions are of supreme importance today as the United States seeks to promote its democratic values abroad. Democracy and Knowledge is the first book to look to ancient Athens to explain how and why directly democratic government by the people produces wealth, power, and security. Combining a history of Athens with contemporary theories of collective action and rational choice developed by economists and political scientists, Josiah Ober examines Athenian democracy's unique contribution to the ancient Greek city-state's remarkable success, and demonstrates the valuable lessons Athenian political practices hold for us today. He argues that the key to Athens's success lay in how the city-state managed and organized the aggregation and distribution of knowledge among its citizens. Ober explores the institutional contexts of democratic knowledge management, including the use of social networks for collecting information, publicity for building common knowledge, and open access for lowering transaction costs. He explains why a government's attempt to dam the flow of information makes democracy stumble. Democratic participation and deliberation consume state resources and social energy. Yet as Ober shows, the benefits of a well-designed democracy far outweigh its costs. Understanding how democracy can lead to prosperity and security is among the most pressing political challenges of modern times. Democracy and Knowledge reveals how ancient Greek politics can help us transcend the democratic dilemmas that confront the world today.
Author : Cynthia Farrar
Publisher : CUP Archive
ISBN 13 : 9780521375849
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (758 download)
Download or read book The Origins of Democratic Thinking written by Cynthia Farrar and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1988 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dr Farrar argues that the development of political theory accompanied the growth of democracy at Athens in the fifth century BC. By analysing the writings of Protagoras, Thucydides and Democritus in the context of political developments and speculation about the universe, she reveals the existence of a distinctive approach to the characterisation of democratic order, and in doing so demonstrates the virtues of Thucydides' historical conception of politics.
Author : Kent Thornton Johnson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)
Download or read book On the Confrontation of Classical Democratic Theory by the Findings of Contemporary Political Behavior Research written by Kent Thornton Johnson and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Held
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780804754729
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (547 download)
Download or read book Models of Democracy, 3rd Edition written by David Held and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Models of Democracy provides a critical reassessment of major theories of democracy from ancient Greece to the present, along with the author's own prescription for revitalizing contemporary democratic politics.
Author : Henry S. Kariel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 452 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Frontiers of Democratic Theory written by Henry S. Kariel and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard Crick
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191577650
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Democracy: A Very Short Introduction written by Bernard Crick and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2002-10-10 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No political concept is more used, and misused, than that of democracy. Nearly every regime today claims to be democratic, but not all 'democracies' allow free politics, and free politics existed long before democratic franchises. This book is a short account of the history of the doctrine and practice of democracy, from ancient Greece and Rome through the American, French, and Russian revolutions, and of the usages and practices associated with it in the modern world. It argues that democracy is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for good government, and that ideas of the rule of law, and of human rights, should in some situations limit democratic claims. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author : Gerald M. Mara
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791477991
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)
Download or read book The Civic Conversations of Thucydides and Plato written by Gerald M. Mara and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2008-07-15 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that classical political philosophy, represented in the works of Thucydides and Plato, is an important resource for both contemporary democratic political theory and democratic citizens. By placing the Platonic dialogues and Thucydides' History in conversation with four significant forms of modern democratic theory—the rational choice perspective, deliberative democratic theory, the interpretation of democratic culture, and postmodernism—Gerald M. Mara contends that these classical authors are not enemies of democracy. Rather than arguing for the creation of a more encompassing theoretical framework guided by classical concerns, Mara offers readings that emphasize the need to focus critically on the purposes of politics, and therefore of democracy, as controversial yet unavoidable questions for political theory.
Author : Mostafa Rejai
Publisher : New York : Atherton Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Democracy: the Contemporary Theories written by Mostafa Rejai and published by New York : Atherton Press. This book was released on 1967 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive textbook brings together and interprets twentieth-century developments in democratic theory. While it focuses primarily on the postwar period, it places the newer conceptions in context and compares them with such classic theories as those developed by Locke, Rousseau, Jefferson, Lincoln, and Mill. After a discussion of the historical evolution of democratic ideas, the author critically examines the contemporary theories. He shows that, in an attempt to bring democratic theory into harmony with actual practice, the newer conceptions increasingly modify the utopian and idealistic content of the classical theories. Professor Rejai demonstrates that beyond merely identifying the definitional components of democracy, the contemporary theorists specify a host of prerequisites under which democratic government is seen to emerge and flourish. He identifies five major types of preconditions, discusses and juxtaposes differing views on each type, and assesses the relative plausibility of each view.--Adapted from book jacket.
Author : John Hoffman
Publisher : SAGE
ISBN 13 : 1412932440
Total Pages : 203 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (129 download)
Download or read book Citizenship Beyond the State written by John Hoffman and published by SAGE. This book was released on 2004-03-16 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is ′citizenship′ still a useful concept? Can citizens - and democracy - exist independently of the state? This text provides an accessible guide to the theories and debates that surround the key political concepts of state, citizenship, and democracy today. John Hoffman reviews the modern development of these concepts from the classic texts of Marx and Weber to the post-war critiques of the feminist, multicultural and critical theorists and considers the on-going barriers to a full realisation of a democratic citizenship. By carefully considering what the state is and what it does, Hoffman shows that it is possible to respond to these critiques and challenges and ′reclaim′ citizenship and democracy as inclusive and emancipatory, rather than divisive and controlling. In advancing this alternative view of a ′stateless′ citizenship, Hoffman opens up new possibilities for conceiving power and society in contemporary politics today. It will be essential reading for all students of politics and sociology for whom the questions of state, nationality, power and identity remain of central importance.
Author : Frank Nick Marini
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (43 download)
Download or read book Images of Classical Democratic Theory written by Frank Nick Marini and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Demetra Kasimis
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108577318
Total Pages : 225 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)
Download or read book The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy written by Demetra Kasimis and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-16 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, immigrants called 'metics' (metoikoi) settled in Athens without a path to citizenship. Galvanized by these political realities, classical thinkers cast a critical eye on the nativism defining democracy's membership rules and explored the city's anxieties over intermingling and passing. Yet readers continue to treat immigration and citizenship as separate phenomena of little interest to theorists writing at the time. In The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy, Demetra Kasimis makes visible the long-overlooked centrality of immigration to the originary practices of democracy and political theory in Athens. She dismantles the interpretive and political assumptions that have led readers to turn away from the metic and reveals the key role this figure plays in such texts as Plato's Republic. The result is a series of original readings that boldly reframes urgent questions about how democracies order their non-citizen members.
Author : Lee Ann Osbun
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Problem of Participation written by Lee Ann Osbun and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
