Rethinking the Value 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 Rethinking the Value of Democracy write by Renske Doorenspleet. This book was released on 2018-07-21. Rethinking the Value of Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is the first comprehensive analysis of the instrumental value of democracy in a comparative perspective. Based on extensive analyses of quantitative studies from different disciplines, it explores both the expected beneficial and harmful impact of democracy. Democracy’s reputation as delivering peace and development while controlling corruption is an important source of its own legitimacy. Yet, as this book acutely demonstrates, the arguments tend to be normatively driven interventions in ideologically charged policy debates. The book argues that we need neither a utopian framing of democracy as delivering all ‘good things’ in politics nor a cynical one that emphasizes only the ‘dangerous underbelly’ of this form of government. The author also raises critical questions about the value of the study of democracy: the choice for particular concepts and measures, the unknown mechanisms, and the narrow focus on specific instrumental values. This volume will be necessary reading for anyone interested in debates on democracy in the contemporary global context.
Rethinking Local Democracy
Rethinking Local 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 Rethinking Local Democracy write by Desmond S. King. This book was released on 1996. Rethinking Local Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The transformation of British local government into a new and complex system of local governance raises fundamental theoretical questions as well as empirical ones. Rethinking Local Democracy argues that traditional defences of local government are no longer adequate and that the case for local autonomy and local democracy needs to be radically rethought. It brings together a set of specially-commissioned chapters by leading academics designed to stimulate and contribute to debate on these issues.
Rethinking Democracy:Freedom and Social Co-operation in Politics, Economy, and Society
Rethinking Democracy:Freedom and Social Co-operation in Politics, Economy, and Society - 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 Rethinking Democracy:Freedom and Social Co-operation in Politics, Economy, and Society write by Carol C. Gould. This book was released on 1990. Rethinking Democracy:Freedom and Social Co-operation in Politics, Economy, and Society available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Carol Gould reconsiders the theory of democracy in respect to politics, economics and social life.
Caring Democracy
Caring 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 Caring Democracy write by Joan C. Tronto. This book was released on 2013-04-12. Caring Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Americans now face a caring deficit: there are simply too many demands on people’s time for us to care adequately for our children, elderly people, and ourselves.At the same time, political involvement in the United States is at an all-time low, and although political life should help us to care better, people see caring as unsupported by public life and deem the concerns of politics as remote from their lives. Caring Democracy argues that we need to rethink American democracy, as well as our fundamental values and commitments, from a caring perspective. The idea that production and economic life are the most important political and human concerns ignores the reality that caring, for ourselves and others, should be the highest value that shapes how we view the economy, politics, and institutions such as schools and the family. Care is at the center of our human lives, but Tronto argues it is currently too far removed from the concerns of politics. Caring Democracy traces the reasons for this disconnection and argues for the need to make care, not economics, the central concern of democratic political life. Joan C. Tronto is a Professor in the Political Science Department at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Moral Boundaries: A Political Argument for an Ethic of Care (Routledge).
Rethinking Democracy
Rethinking 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 Rethinking Democracy write by Andrew Gamble. This book was released on 2019-01-04. Rethinking Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "There's never been a more pressing time to question every aspect of our inadequate democracy"- Polly Toynbee "This important book shows the many challenges democracy faces in a world of populism and radical digital change" - Margaret Hodge 2018 saw celebrations of the centenary of the Representation of the People Act which marked a decisive step towards full universal suffrage - this collection of essays explores the problems of democracy and suggests ways it might now be extended and deepened. Investigates if democracy is an unfinished revolution and if democratic politics is currently in retreat Demonstrates how democratic politics is once again under attack - this time from populist nationalists, authoritarian rulers and new forms of political communication Argues that if we lose the art of active citizenship, we will lose the freedoms and the rights which democracy has bestowed
