Defining Democracy

by Daniel O. Prosterman

Author	: Daniel O. Prosterman
Publisher	: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages	: 289
Release	: 2013-02-14
Genre	: History
ISBN	: 0195377737

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Defining Democracy reveals the history of a little-known experiment in urban democracy begun in New York City during the Great Depression and abolished amid the early Cold War. For a decade, New Yorkers utilized a new voting system that produced the most diverse legislatures in the city's history and challenged the American two-party structure. Daniel O. Prosterman examines struggles over electoral reform in New York City to clarify our understanding of democracy's evolution in the United States and the world.

Defining Democracy

by Peter Emerson

Author	: Peter Emerson
Publisher	: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages	: 210
Release	: 2011-12-03
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 3642209041

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Defining Democracy looks both at the theory of why and the history of how different voting procedures have come to be used – or not, as the case may be – in the three fields of democratic structures: firstly, in decision-making, both in society at large and in the elected chamber; secondly, in elections to and within those chambers; and thirdly, in the various forms of governance, from no-party to multi-party and all-party, which have emerged as a result.

Defining and Measuring Democracy

by David Beetham

Author	: David Beetham
Publisher	: SAGE
Total Pages	: 244
Release	: 1994-11-29
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 9781446226186

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The rapid worldwide phase of democratization since the 1980s has stimulated a renewed interest in how we define and measure democracy. The contributors to this volume include leading political theorists, political scientists and experts in comparative government from across Europe. Defining and Measuring Democracy offers an integrated analysis of key debates and issues ranging from the question of how to define democracy to the issue of cultural diversity. Each chapter offers new insights and approaches placed in the context of contemporary debates.

Democracy's Meanings

by Nicholas T. Davis

Author	: Nicholas T. Davis
Publisher	: University of Michigan Press
Total Pages	: 255
Release	: 2022-08-30
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 0472133128

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How do the people who make up American democracy view and judge its process?

Defying Corporations, Defining Democracy

by Dean Ritz

Author	: Dean Ritz
Publisher	: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages	: 0
Release	: 2001
Genre	: Business and politics
ISBN	: 9781891843105

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In these 70 essays, speeches, sermons and screeds, POCLADers probe: corporations as "legal persons"; corporate social responsibility as a ploy; strategies for amending state corporation codes and challenging judge-made laws; and much, much more.This collection, which Howard Zinn calls "powerfully persuasive," chronicles POCLAD's evolution -- among the twelve POCLADers and with thousands of activists. Here are hidden histories, crisp analyses and thoughtful responses to corporate apologists -- all in one provocative book.

Open Democracy

by Hélène Landemore

Author	: Hélène Landemore
Publisher	: Princeton University Press
Total Pages	: 272
Release	: 2022-03-08
Genre	: Philosophy
ISBN	: 0691212392

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To the ancient Greeks, democracy meant gathering in public and debating laws set by a randomly selected assembly of several hundred citizens. To the Icelandic Vikings, democracy meant meeting every summer in a field to discuss issues until consensus was reached. Our contemporary representative democracies are very different. Modern parliaments are gated and guarded, and it seems as if only certain people are welcome. Diagnosing what is wrong with representative government and aiming to recover some of the openness of ancient democracies, Open Democracy presents a new paradigm of democracy. Supporting a fresh nonelectoral understanding of democratic representation, Hélène Landemore demonstrates that placing ordinary citizens, rather than elites, at the heart of democratic power is not only the true meaning of a government of, by, and for the people, but also feasible and, more than ever, urgently needed. -- Cover page 4.

Defining Landscape Democracy

by Shelley Egoz

Author	: Shelley Egoz
Publisher	: Edward Elgar Publishing
Total Pages	: 277
Release	: 2018-06-29
Genre	: Architecture
ISBN	: 1786438348

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This stimulating book explores theories, conceptual frameworks, and cultural approaches with the purpose of uncovering a cross-cultural understanding of landscape democracy, a concept at the intersection of landscape, democracy and spatial justice. The authors of Defining Landscape Democracy address a number of questions that are critical to the contemporary discourse on the right to landscape: Why is democracy relevant to landscape? How do we democratise landscape? How might we achieve landscape and spatial justice?

Democratization and Research Methods

by Michael Coppedge

Author	: Michael Coppedge
Publisher	: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages	: 377
Release	: 2012-06-25
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 0521537274

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Democratization and Research Methods summarizes what researchers know about why countries become and remain democracies, and why they often do not. It also evaluates the various methods social scientists use to answer such questions. Michael Coppedge draws lessons that can be applied to any political phenomenon that is studied comparatively.

Democracies and Authoritarian Regimes

by Andrea Kendall-Taylor

Author	: Andrea Kendall-Taylor
Publisher	:
Total Pages	: 376
Release	: 2019
Genre	: Political Science
ISBN	: 019882081X

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The only introduction to cover the full spectrum of political systems, from democracy to dictatorship and the growing number of systems that fall between, equipping readers to think critically about democracy's future trajectory.