Democracy and Political Ignorance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy and Political Ignorance write by Ilya Somin. This book was released on 2013-10-02. Democracy and Political Ignorance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of the biggest problems with modern democracy is that most of the public is usually ignorant of politics and government. Often, many people understand that their votes are unlikely to change the outcome of an election and don't see the point in learning much about politics. This may be rational, but it creates a nation of people with little political knowledge and little ability to objectively evaluate what they do know. In Democracy and Political Ignorance, Ilya Somin mines the depths of ignorance in America and reveals the extent to which it is a major problem for democracy. Somin weighs various options for solving this problem, arguing that political ignorance is best mitigated and its effects lessened by decentralizing and limiting government. Somin provocatively argues that people make better decisions when they choose what to purchase in the market or which state or local government to live under, than when they vote at the ballot box, because they have stronger incentives to acquire relevant information and to use it wisely.
Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance
Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance write by Yi Feng. This book was released on 2003. Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A theoretical and empirical examination of why political institutions and organizations matter in economic growth.
Democracy, Politics & Governance
Democracy, Politics & Governance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy, Politics & Governance write by A. Surya Prakash. This book was released on 2021-11-29. Democracy, Politics & Governance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is a collection of articles published by the author over a period of time. Much of his writing reflects the social, political and economic issues that have emerged over the years and impacted India’s politics and governance. Given his special interest in the working of the constitution, and the march of democracy since independence, the book contains chapters which specifically deal with constitutional issues, the working of parliament, the system of justice, the executive and the media. The author feels that negating the facts of history has been a major pastime of the Nehruvian and Marxist schools and that the distortions introduced by these schools need to be challenged and corrected in the current phase of national politics. This is reflected in his articles which deal with the running secular versus pseudo-secular debate as also the political battles being fought on what is ‘national’ and what is ‘anti-national’. In any case, whatever the issue and however intense the debate, he is firmly of the view that it must all happen within the parameters of the constitution.
Democratic Governance
Democratic Governance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democratic Governance write by Mark Bevir. This book was released on 2010-04-26. Democratic Governance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Democratic Governance examines the changing nature of the modern state and reveals the dangers these changes pose to democracy. Mark Bevir shows how new ideas about governance have gradually displaced old-style notions of government in Britain and around the world. Policymakers cling to outdated concepts of representative government while at the same time placing ever more faith in expertise, markets, and networks. Democracy exhibits blurred lines of accountability and declining legitimacy. Bevir explores how new theories of governance undermined traditional government in the twentieth century. Politicians responded by erecting great bureaucracies, increasingly relying on policy expertise and abstract notions of citizenship and, more recently, on networks of quasi-governmental and private organizations to deliver services using market-oriented techniques. Today, the state is an unwieldy edifice of nineteenth-century government buttressed by a sprawling substructure devoted to the very different idea of governance--and democracy has suffered. In Democratic Governance, Bevir takes a comprehensive look at governance and the history and thinking behind it. He provides in-depth case studies of constitutional reform, judicial reform, joined-up government, and police reform. He argues that the best hope for democratic renewal lies in more interpretive styles of expertise, dialogic forms of policymaking, and more diverse avenues for public participation.
Deliberative Democracy in America
Deliberative Democracy in America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Deliberative Democracy in America write by Ethan J. Leib. This book was released on 2010-11-01. Deliberative Democracy in America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. We are taught in civics class that the Constitution provides for three basic branches of government: executive, judicial, and legislative. While the President and Congress as elected by popular vote are representative, can they really reflect accurately the will and sentiment of the populace? Or do money and power dominate everyday politics to the detriment of true self-governance? Is there a way to put &"We the people&" back into government? Ethan Leib thinks there is and offers this blueprint for a fourth branch of government as a way of giving the people a voice of their own. While drawing on the rich theoretical literature about deliberative democracy, Leib concentrates on designing an institutional scheme for embedding deliberation in the practice of American democratic government. At the heart of his scheme is a process for the adjudication of issues of public policy by assemblies of randomly selected citizens convened to debate and vote on the issues, resulting in the enactment of laws subject both to judicial review and to possible veto by the executive and legislative branches. The &"popular&" branch would fulfill a purpose similar to the ballot initiative and referendum but avoid the shortcomings associated with those forms of direct democracy. Leib takes special pains to show how this new branch would be integrated with the already existing governmental and political institutions of our society, including administrative agencies and political parties, and would thus complement rather than supplant them.
