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Book Synopsis Popular Politics by : George W. Shepherd
Download or read book Popular Politics written by George W. Shepherd and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1998-07-30 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George Shepherd provides a popular democratic theory and strategy for democratic transition in the world. He demonstrates how popular democratic ideas have created universal human rights uprisings and popular movements, and he shows how real opposition is building to elite rule. Building on the old liberal and new associative rights of the democratic tradition of the Western world from Harold Laski and Jacques Maritain in Europe to the moral realism of Martin Luther King Jr., John Rawls, and David Brower in America, Professor Shepherd proposes numerous reforms in the economic and political systems that can occur through popular politics and participatory economics. Of considerable interest to activists, concerned citizens, and scholars involved in the debates over democracy and current economic-political policies.
Book Synopsis Shepherd of Democracy? by : Carl C. Hodge
Download or read book Shepherd of Democracy? written by Carl C. Hodge and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1992-07-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Established scholars on both sides of the Atlantic offer a broad perspective of the central themes in German-American relations in the twentieth century and show how the most current developments have evolved. This interpretive survey helps fill a major gap in the literature covering the long-term relationships between Germany and the United States and demonstrates how liberal democratic values have been upheld. Policymakers concerned with U.S. foreign policy and German and European relations will find this edited collection illuminating. Students and scholars in government, international relations, and European studies will find this work valuable. This edited collection describes the mixture of idealism with which American foreign policy has traditionally viewed republican government and peaceful international relations and the pragmatism involved in securing American interests after 1945 and supporting a prosperous German republic. At the same time it deals with the extent to which German objectives have been consistent with American goals. The book begins with a discussion of the Kantian ideal of an international civil society and its place in the tradition of U.S. foreign policy. The middle chapters deal with the evolution of that tradition from Wilsonian precepts after World War I to American tutelage in the establishment and protection of the Federal Republic. The final chapters confront Germany's place in Europe after 1989 and attempt to answer the question: Has American idealism been realistic?
Book Synopsis Citizen Sheep Government Shepherds by :
Download or read book Citizen Sheep Government Shepherds written by and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Compromising Democracy by : Harold Shepherd
Download or read book Compromising Democracy written by Harold Shepherd and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2007 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Few authors have covered the impact on federal rangelands of the political right's attempt to reverse the influence of the environmental laws passed in the 70s and 80s and the GOP's assault on federal courts and plaintiff's attorneys. Shepherd illustrates the critical role of federal courts not only in the protection of public lands and how the Bush administration has set about dismantling this court system as part of its attack on "activist" judges and plaintiff's lawyers, but the fundamental principles of democracy.
Book Synopsis Theology in the Democracy of the Dead by : Matt Jenson
Download or read book Theology in the Democracy of the Dead written by Matt Jenson and published by Baker Academic. This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: G. K. Chesterton wrote, "Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead." This book pays homage to major theologians of the Christian tradition that tell the history of theology. Matt Jenson engages in charitable yet critical exposition and dialogue with eleven select thinkers, offering a lucid, synthetic account of their theology with a view to ongoing systematic theological issues. He engages directly with core primary texts and treats individual theologians in greater depth and nuance than most overview textbooks.
Book Synopsis Democracy in Exile by : Daniel Bessner
Download or read book Democracy in Exile written by Daniel Bessner and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-04-15 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anyone interested in the history of U.S. foreign relations, Cold War history, and twentieth century intellectual history will find this impressive biography of Hans Speier, one of the most influential figures in American defense circles of the twentieth century, a must-read. In Democracy in Exile, Daniel Bessner shows how the experience of the Weimar Republic’s collapse and the rise of Nazism informed Hans Speier’s work as an American policymaker and institution builder. Bessner delves into Speier’s intellectual development, illuminating the ideological origins of the expert-centered approach to foreign policymaking and revealing the European roots of Cold War liberalism. Democracy in Exile places Speier at the center of the influential and fascinating transatlantic network of policymakers, many of them German émigrés, who struggled with the tension between elite expertise and democratic politics. Speier was one of the most prominent intellectuals among this cohort, and Bessner traces his career, in which he advanced from university intellectual to state expert, holding a key position at the RAND Corporation and serving as a powerful consultant to the State Department and Ford Foundation, across the mid-twentieth century. Bessner depicts the critical role Speier played in the shift in American intellectual history in which hundreds of social scientists left their universities and contributed to the creation of an expert-based approach to U.S. foreign relations, in the process establishing close connections between governmental and nongovernmental organizations. As Bessner writes: to understand the rise of the defense intellectual, we must understand Hans Speier.
Book Synopsis Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress by : Craig Volden
Download or read book Legislative Effectiveness in the United States Congress written by Craig Volden and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-10-27 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores why some members of Congress are more effective than others at navigating the legislative process and what this means for how Congress is organized and what policies it produces. Craig Volden and Alan E. Wiseman develop a new metric of individual legislator effectiveness (the Legislative Effectiveness Score) that will be of interest to scholars, voters, and politicians alike. They use these scores to study party influence in Congress, the successes or failures of women and African Americans in Congress, policy gridlock, and the specific strategies that lawmakers employ to advance their agendas.
Book Synopsis Survival of the Prettiest by : Nancy Etcoff
Download or read book Survival of the Prettiest written by Nancy Etcoff and published by Anchor. This book was released on 2011-02-02 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative and thoroughly researched inquiry into what we find beautiful and why, skewering the myth that the pursuit of beauty is a learned behavior. In Survival of the Prettiest, Nancy Etcoff, a faculty member at Harvard Medical School and a practicing psychologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, argues that beauty is neither a cultural construction, an invention of the fashion industry, nor a backlash against feminism—it’s in our biology. Beauty, she explains, is an essential and ineradicable part of human nature that is revered and ferociously pursued in nearly every civilization—and for good reason. Those features to which we are most attracted are often signals of fertility and fecundity. When seen in the context of a Darwinian struggle for survival, our sometimes extreme attempts to attain beauty—both to become beautiful ourselves and to acquire an attractive partner—suddenly become much more understandable. Moreover, if we understand how the desire for beauty is innate, then we can begin to work in our own interests, and not just the interests of our genetic tendencies.
Book Synopsis Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift by : Paul Anthony Rahe
Download or read book Soft Despotism, Democracy's Drift written by Paul Anthony Rahe and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1989, the Cold War abruptly ended and it seemed as if the world was at last safe for democracy. But a spirit of uneasiness, discontent, and world-weariness soon arose and has persisted in Europe, in America, and elsewhere for two decades. To discern the meaning of this malaise we must investigate the nature of liberal democracy, says the author of this provocative book, and he undertakes to do so through a detailed investigation of the thinking of Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Tocqueville. Paul A. Rahe argues that these political thinkers anticipated the modern liberal republic's propensity to drift in the direction of “soft despotism”—a condition that arises within a democracy when paternalistic state power expands and gradually undermines the spirit of self-government. Such an eventuality, feared by Tocqueville in the nineteenth century, has now become a reality throughout the European Union, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. So Rahe asserts, and he explains what must be done to reverse this unfortunate trend.
Download or read book Tocqueville written by Harvey Mansfield and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2010-06-24 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the thought and works of Alexis de Tocqueville written by one of the premier political scientists of our time. Exploring his observations of contemporary democratic politics and his predictions for the triumph and pitfalls of democracy in the future, the volume features the new liberalism of Tocqueville's masterpiece, Democracy in America.
Book Synopsis Toward Democracy by : James T. Kloppenberg
Download or read book Toward Democracy written by James T. Kloppenberg and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 909 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James T. Kloppenberg presents the history of democracy from the perspective of those who established its principles, offering a fresh look at how ideas about representative government, suffrage, and the principles of self-rule and ideals have shifted over time and place.
Book Synopsis The Shepherd and the Beast by : Tramayne Monaghan
Download or read book The Shepherd and the Beast written by Tramayne Monaghan and published by Jonathan Ball Publishers. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We are all on the journey. The hero's journey is for everyone, and we are the hero in our own story. Being on the journey is the most human thing we can do – humanity will cease to grow or evolve if we follow the status quo. We live in a world of social media, hyper-connectedness, and convenience, but we are becoming less human the further down the path we go. Stepping into our own journey and finding the guidance and lessons to grow as a person is our destiny. Along the path, we find our mentors and face our trials. We are distracted, and we fail – we are human, after all. In the chaos, we eventually find the balance required to grow. This is a book about facing demons and meeting mages. The Shepherd and the Beast is about the universal truth that binds us, we are all the same, just on different parts of the same mythological journey. Tramayne Monaghan went on a journey of heroic proportions, learning how to be a leader from the best and learning lessons from the trials of beasts. Being thrust into leadership positions at a young age, these are the real-life lessons learnt and the steps the reader can take to absorb them. This is the story of a man trying to find meaning in leading others. This is a story of becoming a leader while discovering the shepherd and the beast ...
Download or read book Kenya written by Godwin R. Murunga and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2007-02 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shows how the struggle for democracy has been waged in civil society, through opposition parties, and amongst traditionally marginalised groups like women and the young. This book also considers the remaining impediments to democratisation, in the form of a powerful police force and damaging structural adjustment policies.
Book Synopsis Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy by : Michael Albertus
Download or read book Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy written by Michael Albertus and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-01-25 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues that - in terms of institutional design, the allocation of power and privilege, and the lived experiences of citizens - democracy often does not restart the political game after displacing authoritarianism. Democratic institutions are frequently designed by the outgoing authoritarian regime to shield incumbent elites from the rule of law and give them an unfair advantage over politics and the economy after democratization. Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy systematically documents and analyzes the constitutional tools that outgoing authoritarian elites use to accomplish these ends, such as electoral system design, legislative appointments, federalism, legal immunities, constitutional tribunal design, and supermajority thresholds for change. The study provides wide-ranging evidence for these claims using data that spans the globe and dates from 1800 to the present. Albertus and Menaldo also conduct detailed case studies of Chile and Sweden. In doing so, they explain why some democracies successfully overhaul their elite-biased constitutions for more egalitarian social contracts.
Download or read book Saving Democracy written by Kevin O'Leary and published by Stanford Law & Politics. This book was released on 2006 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Saving Democracy presents a bold yet practical plan for reinventing American democracy for the twenty-first century. The book diagnoses contemporary political ills as symptoms of corruption in our large republic and develops a new understanding of representative democracy. Building on the ideas of James Madison and Thomas Jefferson, Saving Democracy shows how it is possible to combine the traditional town hall and the Internet to fashion a new theory of representative government that empowers citizens and bridges the enormous gap that now exists between the political elite and the average voter. Under the author's plan, in each of the nation's 435 congressional districts a local assembly of 100 citizens, selected by lot, would meet to discuss the major domestic and international issues. The role of this assembly would be deliberative and advisory and its views would constitute a second, more sophisticated and informed measure of public opinion than traditional public opinion polls. The next step would be the establishment of the People's House, which would hold actual legislative power.
Book Synopsis The Flourishing Pastor by : Tom Nelson
Download or read book The Flourishing Pastor written by Tom Nelson and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2021-12-14 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the risk of burnout at an all-time high, pastors need a new framework for ministry that will help them move from survival to flourishing. Drawing on the image of the shepherd leader, Tom Nelson offers pastors wisdom and timely vision for leadership that integrates in-depth biblical teaching and whole-life discipleship, providing a roadmap for ministry resilience and longevity.
Book Synopsis Triumph of an Idea by : Roy Nolan Shepherd
Download or read book Triumph of an Idea written by Roy Nolan Shepherd and published by Xulon Press. This book was released on 2011-04 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Triumph of an Idea is a look at the founding principles of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness from the epistemological perspective of a non-secular understanding of the nature of the human condition. With this as a springboard in which to examine the current economic, cultural, and political paradigm, the author presents progressivism as the anchor of prejudice within the broader framework of dialectic materialism and philosophical pragmatism; the mechanism by which America has been manipulated into abandoning Truth as it was understood in the minds of its Founders. The author has included his own original intellectual contribution to the debate over the origins of the universe with the introduction of the principle of perpetual kinesis. This is a look at how "nothing," as an abstract idea excludes the possibility that something can exist where once there was nothing. Finally, the author introduces a New Federalist Initiative, a democratic directive to impose upon an out of control government intent upon the destruction of the pillars that have stood for so long in this, our beloved Republic. Roy Nolan Shepherd is a self-described American Watchman of Oklahoma, life-long student of presuppositional apologetics, and concerned citizen, who as one from among the many sons and daughters of liberty, has chosen to speak out against the looming destruction of America as that "Shining City on a Hill." He has crossed the great divide of America many times over in the past twenty plus years in his role as an American Trucker and the Triumph of an Idea is the result of the encouragement of those Americans he has rubbed shoulders with during those years to put his thoughts and ideas forward to say that you, as an individual, are not alone in your fears of what is happening to America.
