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Author : David McCord Wright
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (249 download)
Download or read book Democracy and Progress written by David McCord Wright and published by . This book was released on 1950 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nahum Capen
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The History of Democracy written by Nahum Capen and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Dumas
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Download or read book Progress of Democracy; Illustrated in the History of Gaul and France written by Dumas and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Christopher Meckstroth
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 0190213922
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book The Struggle for Democracy written by Christopher Meckstroth and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revolutionaries, counter-revolutionaries, and reformers the world over appeal to democracy to justify their actions. But when political factions compete over the right to act in "the people's" name, who is to decide? Although the problem is as old as the great revolutions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, events from the Arab Spring to secession referendums suggest that today it is hardly any closer to being solved. This book defends a new theory of democratic legitimacy and change that provides an answer. Christopher Meckstroth shows why familiar views that identify democracy with timeless principles or institutions fall into paradox when asked to make sense of democratic founding and change. Solving the problem, he argues, requires shifting focus to the historical conditions under which citizens work out what it will mean to govern themselves in a democratic way. The only way of sorting out disputes without faith in progress is to show, in Socratic fashion, that some parties' claims to speak for "the people" cannot hold up even on their own terms. Meckstroth builds his argument on provocative and closely-argued interpretations of Plato, Kant, and Hegel, suggesting that familiar views of them as foundationalist metaphysicians misunderstand their debt to a method of radical doubt pioneered by Socrates. Recovering this tradition of antifoundational argument requires rethinking the place of German idealism in the history of political thought and opens new directions for contemporary democratic theory. The historical and Socratic theory of democracy the book defends makes possible an entirely new way of approaching struggles over contested notions of progress, popular sovereignty, political judgment and democratic change.
Author : Claude Ake
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815723482
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Democracy and Development in Africa written by Claude Ake and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2001-09-19 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite three decades of preoccupation with development in Africa, the economies of most African nations are still stagnating or regressing. For most Africans, incomes are lower than they were two decades ago, health prospects are poorer, malnourishment is widespread, and infrastructures and social institutions are breaking down. An array of factors have been offered to explain the apparent failure of development in Africa, including the colonial legacy, social pluralism, corruption, poor planning and incompetent management, limited in-flow of foreign capital, and low levels of saving and investment. Alone or in combination, these factors are serious impediments to development, but Claude Ake contends that the problem is not that development has failed, but that it was never really on the agenda. He maintains that political conditions in Africa are the greatest impediment to development. In this book, Ake traces the evolution and failure of development policies, including the IMF stabilization programs that have dominated international efforts. He identifies the root causes of the problem in the authoritarian political structure of the African states derived from the previous colonial entities. Ake sketches the alternatives that are struggling to emerge from calamitous failure--economic development based on traditional agriculture, political development based on the decentralization of power, and reliance on indigenous communities that have been providing some measure of refuge from the coercive power of the central state. Ake's argument may become a new paradigm for development in Africa.
Author : Nahum CAPEN
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 714 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (22 download)
Download or read book The History of Democracy; Or, Political Progress Historically Illustrated, from the Earliest to the Latest Periods ... With Portraits, Etc written by Nahum CAPEN and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 714 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Lothrop Motley
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Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Historic Progress and American Democracy written by John Lothrop Motley and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Larry Jay Diamond
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801862731
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (627 download)
Download or read book Democratization in Africa written by Larry Jay Diamond and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The country-specific chapters serve to underline the differences between African democracy and liberal democracy, yet some authors are at pains to emphasize that whatever their limitations, African democracies are an advance over what had gone before." -- African Studies Review
Author : Gregory Laski
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190642793
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (96 download)
Download or read book Untimely Democracy written by Gregory Laski and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Machine generated contents note: -- Table of Contents: -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: Democracy's Progress -- Chapter One: On the Possibility of Democracy in the Present-Past: Reading Thomas Jefferson and W.E.B. Du Bois in the Times of Slavery and Freedom -- Chapter Two: Narrating the Present-Past in Frederick Douglass's Life and Times -- Chapter Three: Making Reparation; or, How to Count the Wrongs of Slavery -- Chapter Four: Failed Futures: Of Prophecy and Pessimism at the Nadir -- Chapter Five: Pauline E. Hopkins's Untimely Democracy (Stasis, Agitation, Agency) -- Epilogue: Democracy's Plunges
Author : Ernest Lamers
Publisher : Andrews UK Limited
ISBN 13 : 1788360192
Total Pages : 73 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (883 download)
Download or read book Democracy - A Work in Progress written by Ernest Lamers and published by Andrews UK Limited. This book was released on 2020-02-11 with total page 73 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 consideration was given to the fact that it is humans - who do not behave as rationally as political theories are bound to assume - who must implement these theories. Flawed humans who are driven by the forces of prejudice, feelings, emotions, etc. These immutable and distinctive characteristics of the imperfect human ensure that democracy has been impossible to achieve. Democracy will never be perfect. One can only hope for small, incremental improvements. Any attempt to force radical changes is doomed to failure.
Author : Donald T. Critchlow
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199340064
Total Pages : 169 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)
Download or read book American Political History: A Very Short Introduction written by Donald T. Critchlow and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-14 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Founding Fathers who drafted the United States Constitution in 1787 distrusted political parties, popular democracy, centralized government, and a strong executive office. Yet the country's national politics have historically included all those features. In American Political History: A Very Short Introduction, Donald Critchlow takes on this contradiction between original theory and actual practice. This brief, accessible book explores the nature of the two-party system, key turning points in American political history, representative presidential and congressional elections, struggles to expand the electorate, and critical social protest and third-party movements. The volume emphasizes the continuity of a liberal tradition challenged by partisan divide, war, and periodic economic turmoil. American Political History: A Very Short Introduction explores the emergence of a democratic political culture within a republican form of government, showing the mobilization and extension of the mass electorate over the lifespan of the country. In a nation characterized by great racial, ethnic, and religious diversity, American democracy has proven extraordinarily durable. Individual parties have risen and fallen, but the dominance of the two-party system persists. Fierce debates over the meaning of the U.S. Constitution have created profound divisions within the parties and among voters, but a belief in the importance of constitutional order persists among political leaders and voters. Americans have been deeply divided about the extent of federal power, slavery, the meaning of citizenship, immigration policy, civil rights, and a range of economic, financial, and social policies. New immigrants, racial minorities, and women have joined the electorate and the debates. But American political history, with its deep social divisions, bellicose rhetoric, and antagonistic partisanship provides valuable lessons about the meaning and viability of democracy in the early 21st century. 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 : Herbert David Croly
Publisher : Good Press
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Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (57 download)
Download or read book The Promise of American Life written by Herbert David Croly and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Le Viandier (often called Le Viandier de Taillevent) is a recipe book generally attributed to Guillaume Tirel, alias Taillevent. It is known, the earliest version of the work was written around 1300, before the alleged author, Tyrel's was born. Le Viandier is one of the earliest recipe collections of the Middle Ages, along with the Latin Liber de Coquina (early 14th century) and the English Forme of Cury (c. 1390). It is also famous as a book that contains the first detailed description of an entremet.
Author : Alexandre Dumas
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Total Pages : 388 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book The Progress of Democracy written by Alexandre Dumas and published by . This book was released on 1841 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Axel Hadenius
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 052141685X
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (214 download)
Download or read book Democracy and Development written by Axel Hadenius and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992-09-17 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a thorough investigation into the requisites of democracy. Based on data from all 132 sovereign states of the Third World, it first establishes a scale to measure the level of democracy existing in these countries. The author discusses various interpretations of the meaning of political democracy, and emerges with a specification of its essential principles which includes such elements as the holding of elections to central decision-making organs, and the maintenance of certain fundamental political liberties. Theories concerning the requisites of democratic government are then examined in order to explain the manifest differences in the level of democracy among the states of the Third World. The author employs statistical techniques including regression analysis to test theories related to socio-economic conditions, demographic and cultural factors, and institutional arrangements. This book thus provides a uniquely wide-ranging examination both of the elements which constitute democracy, and of the factors which explain its varying prevalence.
Author : Nahum Capen
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Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (134 download)
Download or read book History of Democracy ; Or, Political Progress Historically Illustrated from the Earliest to the Latest Periods written by Nahum Capen and published by . This book was released on 1873 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Democratic Progress Institute
Publisher : Anchor Books
ISBN 13 : 9781905592449
Total Pages : 53 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (924 download)
Download or read book New Media and the Development of Democracy written by Democratic Progress Institute and published by Anchor Books. This book was released on 2012 with total page 53 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kirk S. Bowman
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271046465
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Militarization, Democracy, and Development written by Kirk S. Bowman and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do Third World countries benefit from having large militaries, or does this impede their development? Kirk Bowman uses statistical analysis to demonstrate that militarization has had a particularly malignant impact in this region. For his quantitative comparison he draws on longitudinal data for a sample of 76 developing countries and for 18 Latin American nations. To illuminate the causal mechanisms at work, Bowman offers a detailed comparison of Costa Rica and Honduras between 1948 and 1998. The case studies not only serve to bolster his general argument about the harmful effects of militarization but also provide many new insights into the processes of democratic consolidation and economic transformation in these two Central American countries.
