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Author : Heinz Eulau
Publisher : Ardent Media
ISBN 13 : 9780672514876
Total Pages : 744 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (148 download)
Download or read book Labyrinths of Democracy written by Heinz Eulau and published by Ardent Media. This book was released on 1973 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : G÷ran Therborn
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788738993
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)
Download or read book Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy written by G÷ran Therborn and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A global panorama of the historical development and contemporary malaise of liberal democracy, from a renowned social theorist. Barely a century has passed since liberal democracy became established in the majority of advanced capitalist economies. Elsewhere, it is of even more recent vintage. Classical liberalism held universal suffrage a mortal threat to property. So why did it nevertheless come to pass, and how stable today is the marriage between representative government and the continued rule of capital? People on all continents consider inequality a "very big problem". The Davos Economic Forum and the OECD say they are worried. But capitalist democracies don't respond. How has democracy been transformed from a popular demand for social justice to a professional power game? These questions are raised, and answered, in Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy. Together with an essay on the current situation, it includes a compact global history of 'The Right to Vote and the Four World Routes to/through Modernity' and two landmark essays from New Left Review, 'The Rule of Capital and the Rise of Democracy' and 'The Travail of Latin American Democracy', collected here in book form for the first time.
Author : Göran Therborn
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1788739000
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (887 download)
Download or read book Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy written by Göran Therborn and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classical liberalism regarded universal suffrage as a mortal threat to property. So what explains the advent of liberal democracy, and how stable today is the marriage between representative government and the continued rule of capital? Across every continent, people think inequality is a 'very big problem'. Even the Davos Economic Forum and the OECD say they are worried. And yet capitalist states don't respond. How has democracy been transformed from a popular demand for social justice into a professional power game? To dispel our worsening political malaise, Gran Therborn argues, requires a 'disruptive democracy' of radical social movements, such as the climate strike. Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy opens with a major new essay mapping the social fractures of the present era. There is also a compact historical survey of worldwide patterns of democratization and a landmark analysis of the OECD economies, 'The Rule of Capital and the Rise of Democracy', originally published in New Left Review and collected here in book form for the first time.
Author : Larry Diamond
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801882876
Total Pages : 334 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (828 download)
Download or read book Assessing the Quality of Democracy written by Larry Diamond and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2005-11-25 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description
Author : Reuven Brenner
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 9780472065561
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (655 download)
Download or read book Labyrinths of Prosperity written by Reuven Brenner and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Argues that macroeconomic management of the economy leads nations into decline
Author : Lidija R. Basta Fleiner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783719020705
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Labyrinths of the Crisis written by Lidija R. Basta Fleiner and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Zoë Wilson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135862567
Total Pages : 267 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (358 download)
Download or read book The United Nations and Democracy in Africa written by Zoë Wilson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-11-21 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores UN bureaucracy and the development dysfunction it sows in four 'most different' African countries: Angola, Botswana, Namibia, and Tanzania. Wilson's original purpose for researching this book was to uncover new solutions to some of the United Nations' most vexing implementation problems. Yet, as research unfolded, it became clear that the reasons for those problems lay tangled up in bureaucratic and philosophical quagmires of a much more fundamental nature. The United Nations and Democracy in Africa is the documentation not only of these bureaucratic and philosophical absurdities that find expression through development practice, but also the journey of the author from ardent defender of the UN to profound sceptic.
Author : Norman R. Luttbeg
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 9780739100479
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The Grassroots of Democracy written by Norman R. Luttbeg and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 1999 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American cities provide many of the governmental services that contribute to a greater quality of life for their inhabitants. Local governments are seen as those closest to the people and most responsive to them, more so than state and national governments. Yet typical turnout in municipal elections is below 30 percent of those eligible; few people want to be candidates for low-paying positions in city governments; and seldom are elections competitive--rarely do they offer voters a choice of policy positions among candidates. In The Grassroots of Democracy, Norman Luttbeg provides the results of a comparative study of two rounds of elections in the late 1980s and early 1990s in 118 randomly chosen cities whose populations exceed 25,000. Luttbeg seeks to account for why some cities had competitive elections while others did not; to assess the impact of competition on municipal policies, such as achieving growth or lowering taxes; and to examine the interaction between competition and accurate representation of minorities and women. Never before has a study comparatively assessed elections and policies in American cities in sufficient numbers that the idiosyncrasies of cities do not swamp the general patterns. The Grassroots of Democracy will thus hold significant interest for political scientists, sociologists, urban planners, and public administrators.
Author : Shannon Carter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429889933
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)
Download or read book Writing Democracy written by Shannon Carter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Writing Democracy: The Political Turn in and Beyond the Trump Era calls on the field of writing studies to take up a necessary agenda of social and economic change in its classrooms, its scholarship, and its communities to challenge the rise of neoliberalism and right-wing nationalism. Grown out of an extended national dialogue among public intellectuals, academic scholars, and writing teachers, collectively known as the Writing Democracy project, the book creates a strategic roadmap for how to reclaim the progressive and political possibilities of our field in response to the "twilight of neoliberalism" (Cox and Nilsen), ascendant right-wing nationalism at home (Trump) and abroad (Le Pen, Golden Dawn, UKIP), and hopeful radical uprisings (Black Lives Matter, Occupy Wall Street, Arab Spring). As such, the book tracks the emergence of a renewed left wing in rhetoric and activism post-2008, suggests how our work as teachers, scholars, and administrators can bring this new progressive framework into our institutions, and then moves outward to our role in activist campaigns that are reshaping public debate. Part history, part theory, this book will be an essential read for faculty, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate students in composition and rhetoric and related fields focused on progressive pedagogy, university-community partnerships, and politics.
Author : Paul George Lewis
Publisher : Georgetown University Press
ISBN 13 : 1589012569
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Custodians of Place written by Paul George Lewis and published by Georgetown University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Custodians of Place provides a new theoretical framework that accounts for how different types of cities arrive at decisions about residential growth and economic development. Lewis and Neiman surveyed officials in hundreds of California cities of all sizes and socioeconomic characteristics to account for differences in local development policies. This book shows city governments at the center of the action in shaping their destinies, frequently acting as far-sighted trustees of their communities. They explain how city governments often can insulate themselves for the better from short-term political pressures and craft policy that builds on past growth experiences and future vision. Findings also include how conditions on the ground--local commute times, housing affordability, composition of the local labor force--play an important role in determining the approach a city takes toward growth and land use. What types of cities tend to aggressively pursue industrial or retail firms? What types of cities tend to favor housing over business development? What motivates cities to try to slow residential growth? Custodians of Place answers these and many other questions.
Author : James H. Svara
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0195057627
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Official Leadership in the City written by James H. Svara and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1990 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work examines the roles of mayors, council members and administrators in the American urban governmental process and seeks to identify ways to improve the performance of these key figures.
Author : Charles M. Bonjean
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292772629
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Social Science in America written by Charles M. Bonjean and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This outstanding symposium concerns the development of the social sciences in the United States over its first two hundred years and was brought together by the editors of Social Science Quarterly as the journal's contribution to the nation's Bicentennial celebration. Six prominent scholars representing history, economics, sociology, political science, anthropology, and geography were invited to write essays about the general topic of the progress of the social sciences, and to pursue original lines of thought as well. Each was asked to address three key questions regarding their own discipline: (1) the distinctive contributions made to each discipline by American scholars; (2) the impact of these contributions upon American society; and (3) the relationship of these contributions to the character or nature of life in the United States. The result is a coherent collection of considerable breadth and exceptional quality. The essays include "Time's American Adventures: American History and Historical Writing since 1776" by William Goetzmann; "Economics: Its Direct and Indirect Impact in America, 1776-1976" by Joseph J. Spengler; "Sociology in America: The Experience of Two Centuries" by Robin M. Williams; "Understanding Political Life in America: The Contribution of Political Science" by Heinz Eulau; "Anthropology in America" by Walter Goldschmidt; and "Geography As a Social Science: Recent American Experience" by Kevin Cox.
Author : Richard Wolin
Publisher : Critical Perspectives on Moder
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Labyrinths written by Richard Wolin and published by Critical Perspectives on Moder. This book was released on 1995 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Powerfully testifies to the persistence of intellectual engagement in an era of cynical exhaustion". -- Martin Jay
Author : Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101911123
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)
Download or read book The General in His Labyrinth written by Gabriel García Márquez and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2014-10-15 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: AVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK! General Simon Bolivar, “the Liberator” of five South American countries, takes a last melancholy journey down the Magdalena River, revisiting cities along its shores, and reliving the triumphs, passions, and betrayals of his life. Infinitely charming, prodigiously successful in love, war and politics, he still dances with such enthusiasm and skill that his witnesses cannot believe he is ill. Aflame with memories of the power that he commanded and the dream of continental unity that eluded him, he is a moving exemplar of how much can be won—and lost—in a life.
Author : Daniel R. White
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438424000
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Labyrinths of the Mind written by Daniel R. White and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 1998-04-30 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Labyrinths of the Mind critically engages and creatively transforms the patterns of postmodern culture. It envisions strategies of self-discovery emerging in our era as a labyrinth, whose design evolves as we explore it. Nietzsche serves as our guide throughout the book as we wander the shopping mall, travel on an odyssey with Franz Kafka, critically explore the disorders of psychiatry and psychotherapy, attend a Nine Inch Nails concert during the Gulf War, wake on a medical examination table, and contemplate ourselves in the mirror of the biosphere.
Author : Adam Kuper
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 9780415108294
Total Pages : 962 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (82 download)
Download or read book The Social Science Encyclopedia written by Adam Kuper and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 1996 with total page 962 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This reference has been written by an international team of contributors presenting a global understanding of the key issues within social sciences. A board of advisory editors has worked closely with the editors in determining the most important concepts, thinkers and techniques in each field.
Author : David K. Ryden
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 9780791430576
Total Pages : 324 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (35 download)
Download or read book Representation in Crisis written by David K. Ryden and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 1996-01-01 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Details how the Supreme Court has impoverished the constitutional standing of political parties, thereby contributing to a crisis of representation.
