Popular Government - 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 Popular Government write by Henry Sumner Maine. This book was released on 1886. Popular Government available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
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.
The First Democracies
The First Democracies - 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 The First Democracies write by Eric W. Robinson. This book was released on 1997. The First Democracies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Athens is often considered to have been the birth place of democracy but there were many democracies in Greece during the Archaic and Classical periods and this is a study of the other democratic states. Robinson begins by discussing ancient and modern definitions of democracy, he then examines Greek terminology, investigates the evidence for other early democratic states and draws conclusions about its emergence.
Public Opinion and Popular Government
Public Opinion and Popular Government - 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 Public Opinion and Popular Government write by Abbott Lawrence Lowell. This book was released on 1913. Public Opinion and Popular Government available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Popular Government in the United States
Popular Government in the United States - 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 Popular Government in the United States write by Charles Shang Hyneman. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Popular Government in the United States available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Political theory consists in clarification of language and concepts, in description and analysis of institutions and behavior, and in appraisal and evaluation of political events. Hynemans theory is not one of the behavioral or functional varieties that rely on special language and concepts drawn from other disciplines than political science. It emphasizes a central concern of both conventional and behavioral theory: the distribution of "power," or what proportion of people have influence over what aspects of government. The main task of political theory, Hyneman thinks, is clarification of the values served by and sustaining American democracy. This task gives meaning and direction to analysis of the elements of democracy and to empirical research on the processes of democracy. In this sense political science is not "value-free"; it is most useful in pursuit of the implications of basic beliefs and ideals. Hynemans emphasis on popular control, electoral politics, and equality of influence tends to challenge both of the "pluralist" and "ruling elite" schools-though it should be clear that he is not engaged in a scholastic debate. The freedom of his analysis, ranging from specific reference to the professional controversies of his day is one of its strengths and a probable source of originality. He connects it explicitly to the literature of political science at critical points, as it existed when originally published in 1968.
