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Author : James Wilford Garner
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 8 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (738 download)
Download or read book Primary Vs. Representative Government written by James Wilford Garner and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Bernard Manin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521458917
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (589 download)
Download or read book The Principles of Representative Government written by Bernard Manin and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1997-02-28 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The thesis of this original and provocative book is that representative government should be understood as a combination of democratic and undemocratic, aristocratic elements. Professor Manin challenges the conventional view that representative democracy is no more than an indirect form of government by the people, in which citizens elect representatives only because they cannot assemble and govern in person. The argument is developed by examining the historical moments when the present institutional arrangements were chosen from among the then available alternatives. Professor Manin reminds us that while today representative institutions and democracy appear as virtually indistinguishable, when representative government was first established in Europe and America, it was designed in opposition to democracy proper. Drawing on the procedures used in earlier republican systems, from classical Athens to Renaissance Florence, in order to highlight the alternatives that were forsaken, Manin brings to the fore the generally overlooked results of representative mechanisms. These include the elitist aspect of elections and the non-binding character of campaign promises.
Author : Arnold Bennett Hall
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Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)
Download or read book Popular Government, An Inquiry into the Nature and Methods of Representative Government written by Arnold Bennett Hall and published by . This book was released on 1921 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nadia Urbinati
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226842800
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (268 download)
Download or read book Representative Democracy written by Nadia Urbinati and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is usually held that representative government is not strictly democratic, since it does not allow the people themselves to directly make decisions. But here, taking as her guide Thomas Paine’s subversive view that “Athens, by representation, would have surpassed her own democracy,” Nadia Urbinati challenges this accepted wisdom, arguing that political representation deserves to be regarded as a fully legitimate mode of democratic decision making—and not just a pragmatic second choice when direct democracy is not possible. As Urbinati shows, the idea that representation is incompatible with democracy stems from our modern concept of sovereignty, which identifies politics with a decision maker’s direct physical presence and the immediate act of the will. She goes on to contend that a democratic theory of representation can and should go beyond these identifications. Political representation, she demonstrates, is ultimately grounded in a continuum of influence and power created by political judgment, as well as the way presence through ideas and speech links society with representative institutions. Deftly integrating the ideas of such thinkers as Rousseau, Kant, Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès, Paine, and the Marquis de Condorcet with her own, Urbinati constructs a thought-provoking alternative vision of democracy.
Author : Ingram
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Total Pages : 132 pages
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Download or read book Representative Government written by Ingram and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3749436967
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (494 download)
Download or read book Considerations on Representative Government written by John Stuart Mill and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-03-26 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All speculations concerning forms of government bear the impress, more or less exclusive, of two conflicting theories respecting political institutions; or, to speak more properly, conflicting conceptions of what political institutions are. By some minds, government is conceived as strictly a practical art, giving rise to no questions but those of means and an end. Forms of government are assimilated to any other expedients for the attainment of human objects. They are regarded as wholly an affair of invention and contrivance. Being made by man, it is assumed that man has the choice either to make them or not, and how or on what pattern they shall be made. Government, according to this conception, is a problem, to be worked like any other question of business. The first step is to define the purposes which governments are required to promote. The next, is to inquire what form of government is best fitted to fulfill those purposes. Having satisfied ourselves on these two points, and ascertained the form of government which combines the greatest amount of good with the least of evil, what further remains is to obtain the concurrence of our countrymen, or those for whom the institutions are intended, in the opinion which we have privately arrived at. To find the best form of government; to persuade others that it is the best; and, having done so, to stir them up to insist on having it, is the order of ideas in the minds of those who adopt this view of political philosophy. They look upon a constitution in the same light (difference of scale being allowed for) as they would upon a steam plow, or a threshing machine. To these stand opposed another kind of political reasoners, who are so far from assimilating a form of government to a machine, that they regard it as a sort of spontaneous product, and the science of government as a branch (so to speak) of natural history. According to them, forms of government are not a matter of choice. We must take them, in the main, as we find them. Governments can not be constructed by premeditated design. They "are not made, but grow."
Author : John Stuart Mill
Publisher : IndyPublish.com
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
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Download or read book Considerations on Representative Government written by John Stuart Mill and published by IndyPublish.com. This book was released on 1861 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The form of government for any given country being (within certain definite conditions) amenable to choice, it is now to be considered by what test the choice should be directed; what are the distinctive characteristics of the form of government best fitted to promote the interests of any given society.
Author : Thomas Darlington Ingram
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ISBN 13 : 9781331356776
Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (567 download)
Download or read book Representative Government written by Thomas Darlington Ingram and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Representative Government: The True Method of Reaching Concerted Action and of Finding the Will of a Concurring Majority in the Election of Representatives of the People; The Remedy for the Evils of the Delegate System and the Evils of Permanent Party Organization; The Civil Servic The following pages are intended to show the force and application of a method of direct voting, by which the people of a free government may at once reach concerted action in the election of their representatives. It requires but a superficial examination by any one familiar with the present methods of selecting our government officials, to discover that a large proportion of the corrupt political practices debasing our government at its every phase, are to be found in the method of making party nominations, by submitting to a series of delegatings, to caucuses, conventions, conferences and so on; and, that they still further result from our submission to a government conducted by and wholly emanating from the one or the other of two great permanent parties, into which the people are divided. Recognizing that delegates may disregard their instructions, or, may barter away their votes for personal ends, I asked myself the question: Why may not the instructions given to delegates, providing them with successive choices among the candidates so that they may finally reach concerted action, be placed upon paper, and a count from these papers when collected, in imitation of the repeated ballotings of a convention of delegates, be made to take the place of these delegates meeting in a convention. And then, the further question: If the instructions of a district intended for a delegate, may thus be placed upon a paper from which they may be counted, why not have each individual voter cast his own complete instructions as his vote, and thus have every election decided by the whole body of voters concerned, at one direct election. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Senator Mike Gravel
Publisher : AuthorHouse
ISBN 13 : 1728339308
Total Pages : 115 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (283 download)
Download or read book The Failure of Representative Government and the Solution written by Senator Mike Gravel and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on with total page 115 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The universal form of governance where citizens vote to empower their elected officials to represent their interests is simply representative government –– not a democracy where people would rule directly. Accepting this definitional distinction improves our understanding that bringing the people into the operations of government as deliberative lawmakers –– deliberative direct democracy –– is the answer to dysfunctional representative government. However, empowering the people as deliberative lawmakers is anathema to the selfish interests of elites whose power to control society would be greatly diminished. Consequently, we stay mired in systems of government that do not work.
Author : Alexander Hamilton
Publisher : Read Books Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1528785878
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (287 download)
Download or read book The Federalist Papers written by Alexander Hamilton and published by Read Books Ltd. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Classic Books Library presents this brand new edition of “The Federalist Papers”, a collection of separate essays and articles compiled in 1788 by Alexander Hamilton. Following the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776, the governing doctrines and policies of the States lacked cohesion. “The Federalist”, as it was previously known, was constructed by American statesman Alexander Hamilton, and was intended to catalyse the ratification of the United States Constitution. Hamilton recruited fellow statesmen James Madison Jr., and John Jay to write papers for the compendium, and the three are known as some of the Founding Fathers of the United States. Alexander Hamilton (c. 1755–1804) was an American lawyer, journalist and highly influential government official. He also served as a Senior Officer in the Army between 1799-1800 and founded the Federalist Party, the system that governed the nation’s finances. His contributions to the Constitution and leadership made a significant and lasting impact on the early development of the nation of the United States.
Author : Bernard Manin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780511959769
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (597 download)
Download or read book The Principles of Representative Government written by Bernard Manin and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the debates which led up to the new constitution of the United States, for the first time, a new form of republic was imagined and elaborated, in deliberate contrast to the experiences of ancient republics from Athens to Renaissance Italy. The balance between aristocratic and democratic components within this novel state form was not, as has been widely supposed, a consequence of a deliberate mystification of its real workings; it was a rationally planned aspect of its basic structure.
Author : Stuart N. Soroka
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108491340
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book Information and Democracy written by Stuart N. Soroka and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-03 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A large-scale empirical investigation into the frequency and accuracy of media coverage of public policy.
Download or read book Representative Government and Electoral Reform written by and published by . This book was released on 1863 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Chapman Rackaway
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438490593
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 download)
Download or read book Primary Elections and American Politics written by Chapman Rackaway and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2022-10-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The last twenty years has seen a series of changes to American party politics: polarization, negative partisanship, decreasing voter turnout, and decreasing faith in elections and government. In Primary Elections and American Politics, Chapman Rackaway and Joseph Romance trace the origins of these and other problems to one of the most controversial reforms in American political history: the direct partisan primary election. With a comprehensive history of the primary election, the authors link the rise of primaries to the many political ills the nation faces today. They argue that the Progressives who created the primaries mistook direct democratic reforms, like the primary, for participatory democratic reforms like deliberative polling or participatory budgeting.
Author : John Stuart Mill
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (391 download)
Download or read book Considerations on Representative Government written by John Stuart Mill and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-27 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All speculations concerning forms of government bear the impress, more or less exclusive, of two conflicting theories respecting political institutions; or, to speak more properly, conflicting conceptions of what political institutions are.By some minds, government is conceived as strictly a practical art, giving rise to no questions but those of means and an end. Forms of government are assimilated to any other expedients for the attainment of human objects. They are regarded as wholly an affair of invention and contrivance. Being made by man, it is assumed that man has the choice either to make them or not, and how or on what pattern they shall be made. Government, according to this conception, is a problem, to be worked like any other question of business. The first step is to define the purposes which governments are required to promote. The next, is to inquire what form of government is best fitted to fulfill those purposes. Having satisfied ourselves on these two points, and ascertained the form of government which combines the greatest amount of good with the least of evil, what further remains is to obtain the concurrence of our countrymen, or those for whom the institutions are intended, in the opinion which we have privately arrived at. To find the best form of government; to persuade others that it is the best; and, having done so, to stir them up to insist on having it, is the order of ideas in the minds of those who adopt this view of political philosophy. They look upon a constitution in the same light (difference of scale being allowed for) as they would upon a steam plow, or a threshing machine.To these stand opposed another kind of political reasoners, who are so far from assimilating a form of government to a machine, that they regard it as a sort of spontaneous product, and the science of government as a branch (so to speak) of natural history. According to them, forms of government are not a matter of choice. We must take them, in the main, as we find them. Governments can not be constructed by premeditated design. They "are not made, but grow." Our business with them, as with the other facts of the universe, is to acquaint ourselves with their natural properties, and adapt ourselves to them. The fundamental political institutions of a people are considered by this school as a sort of organic growth from the nature and life of that people; a product of their habits, instincts, and unconscious wants and desires, scarcely at all of their deliberate purposes. Their will has had no part in the matter but that of meeting the necessities of the moment by the contrivances of the moment, which contrivances, if in sufficient conformity to the national feelings and character, commonly last, and, by successive aggregation, constitute a polity suited to the people who possess it, but which it would be vain to attempt to superinduce upon any people whose nature and circumstances had not spontaneously evolved it.
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Total Pages : 138 pages
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Download or read book Our American Government written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Committee on House Administration is pleased to present this revised book on our United States Government. This publication continues to be a popular introductory guide for American citizens and those of other countries who seek a greater understanding of our heritage of democracy. The question-and-answer format covers a broad range of topics dealing with the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of our Government as well as the electoral process and the role of political parties.--Foreword.
Author : Glen Krutz
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ISBN 13 : 9781738998470
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (984 download)
Download or read book American Government 3e written by Glen Krutz and published by . This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black & white print. American Government 3e aligns with the topics and objectives of many government courses. Faculty involved in the project have endeavored to make government workings, issues, debates, and impacts meaningful and memorable to students while maintaining the conceptual coverage and rigor inherent in the subject. With this objective in mind, the content of this textbook has been developed and arranged to provide a logical progression from the fundamental principles of institutional design at the founding, to avenues of political participation, to thorough coverage of the political structures that constitute American government. The book builds upon what students have already learned and emphasizes connections between topics as well as between theory and applications. The goal of each section is to enable students not just to recognize concepts, but to work with them in ways that will be useful in later courses, future careers, and as engaged citizens. In order to help students understand the ways that government, society, and individuals interconnect, the revision includes more examples and details regarding the lived experiences of diverse groups and communities within the United States. The authors and reviewers sought to strike a balance between confronting the negative and harmful elements of American government, history, and current events, while demonstrating progress in overcoming them. In doing so, the approach seeks to provide instructors with ample opportunities to open discussions, extend and update concepts, and drive deeper engagement.
