Democratic Evaluation and Democracy - 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 Evaluation and Democracy write by Donna Podems. This book was released on 2017-02-01. Democratic Evaluation and Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Democratic evaluation brings a way of thinking about evaluation’s role in society and in particular, its role in strengthening social justice. Yet the reality of applying it, and what happens when it is applied particularly outside the West, is unclear. Set in South Africa, a newly formed democracy in Southern Africa, the book affords an in-depth journey that immerses a reader into the realities of evaluation and its relation to democracy. The book starts with the broader introductory chapters that set the scene for more detailed ones which bring thorough insights into national government, local government, and civil societies’ experience of evaluation, democratic evaluation and their understanding of how it contributes to strengthening democracy (or not). A teaching case, the book concludes by providing guiding questions that encourage reflection, discussion and learning that ultimately aims to inform practice and theory.
Measuring Democracy
Measuring Democracy - 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 Measuring Democracy write by Gerardo L. Munck. This book was released on 2009-04-15. Measuring Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Although democracy is a widely held value, concrete measurement of it is elusive. Gerardo L. Munck’s constructive assessment of the methods used to measure democracies promises to bring order to the debate in academia and in practice. Drawing on his years of academic research on democracy and measurement and his practical experience evaluating democratic practices for the United Nations and the Organization of American States, Munck's discussion bridges the theories of academia with practical applications. In proposing a more open and collaborative relationship between theory and action, he makes the case for reassessing how democracy is measured and encourages fundamental changes in methodology. Munck’s field-tested framework for quantifying and qualifying democracy is built around two instruments he developed: the UN Development Programme’s Electoral Democracy Index and a case-by-case election monitoring tool used by the OAS. Measuring Democracy offers specific, real-world lessons that scholars and practitioners can use to improve the quality and utility of data about democracy.
Participation and Democratic Theory
Participation and Democratic Theory - 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 Participation and Democratic Theory write by Carole Pateman. This book was released on 1970. Participation and Democratic Theory available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Shows that current elitist theories are based on an inadequate understanding of the early writings of democratic theory and that much sociological evidence has been ignored.
Evaluating Democratic Innovations
Evaluating Democratic Innovations - 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 Evaluating Democratic Innovations write by Brigitte Geissel. This book was released on 2012. Evaluating Democratic Innovations available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In the face of increasing political disenchantment, many Western governments have experimented, with innovations which aim to enhance the working and quality of democracy as well as increasing citizens' political awareness and understanding of political matters. This text is the most comprehensive account of these various democratic innovations. Written by an outstanding team of international experts it examines the theories behind these democratic innovations, how they have worked in practice and evaluates their success or failure. It explains experiments with new forms of democratic engagement such as: Direct Democracy Deliberative Democracy Co-Governance E-Democracy Drawing on a wide variety of theoretical perspectives and with a broad range of case studies, this is essential reading for all students of democratic theory and all those with an interest in how we might revitalise democracy and increase citizen involvement in the political process.
An Epistemic Theory of Democracy
An Epistemic Theory of Democracy - 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 An Epistemic Theory of Democracy write by Robert E. Goodin. This book was released on 2018. An Epistemic Theory of Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Democracy has many attractive features. Among them is its tendency to track the truth, at least under certain idealized assumptions. That basic result has been known since 1785, when Condorcet published his famous jury theorem. But that theorem has typically been dismissed as little more than a mathematical curiosity, with assumptions too restrictive for it to apply to the real world. In An Epistemic Theory of Democracy, Goodin and Spiekermann propose different ways of interpreting voter independence and competence to make jury theorems more generally applicable. They go on to assess a wide range of familiar political practices and alternative institutional arrangements, to determine what constellation of them might most fully exploit the truth-tracking potential of majoritarian democracy. The book closes with a discussion of how epistemic democracy might be undermined, using as case studies the Trump and Brexit campaigns.
