Democracy Beyond The Ballot Box
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Participation Beyond The Ballot Box
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Author : Usman Khan
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2005-08-31
Participation Beyond The Ballot Box written by Usman Khan and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005-08-31 with Political Science categories.
Participation Beyond the Ballot Box is a welcome addition to the literature on democracy and the role of civil society. It demonstrates that new mechanisms being introduced in Western Europe can and do offer the potential to significantly strengthen the democratic process.
Democracy Beyond The Ballot Box
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Author : Teresia Rindefjäll
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Democracy Beyond The Ballot Box written by Teresia Rindefjäll and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Democratization categories.
Vibrant Democracy
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Author : Kaveri Swami
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024
Vibrant Democracy written by Kaveri Swami and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024 with Democracy categories.
Democracy Beyond The Ballot Box
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Author : Valerie A. Lemmie
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008-01-01
Democracy Beyond The Ballot Box written by Valerie A. Lemmie and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-01 with Democracy categories.
While the council-manager plan is the dominant model of city management in the United States today, the author, an experienced city manager, maintains that "the roles of city managers and elected officials need to be radically reshaped." In this paper, she makes the case for making citizen engagement a central component of the governing process.
Beyond The Ballot Box
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Beyond The Ballot Box written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Democracy categories.
Behind The Ballot Box
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Author : Douglas J. Amy
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2000-09-30
Behind The Ballot Box written by Douglas J. Amy and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-09-30 with Political Science categories.
Interest in voting systems and voting system reform is growing in the United States. Voting systems—the procedures by which we cast votes and elect our public officials—are a crucial part of the democratic election process. The decision to use one kind of voting system rather than another has far-reaching political consequences. Among other things, voting systems help to determine which officials are elected to run our governments, the variety of parties that voters have to choose from at the polls, whether political minorities can win any representation, and whether the majority will rule. Amy gives readers all the information and analytical tools needed to make intelligent choices among voting systems. He provides a set of political criteria that can be used to judge voting systems and gives detailed descriptions of all the common voting systems used in the United States and other Western democracies, including winner-take-all systems as well as proportional representation systems. He also provides an analysis of the various political advantages and disadvantages associated with each type of system. This is an important guide for citizens, government officials, political activists, students, and anyone who wants to learn more about voting systems and their political implications.
Direct Democracy In The United States
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Author : Shauna Reilly
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013
Direct Democracy In The United States written by Shauna Reilly and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Education categories.
Experts assess the connection between characteristics of petitioners, how they are able to influence their communities beyond the ballot box and how large an influence they are on specific areas of policy.
The Power Of The Ballot Box
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Author : Christian Schafferer
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2003
The Power Of The Ballot Box written by Christian Schafferer and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Political Science categories.
The Power of the Ballot Box analyzes the impact on Taiwanese politics of the "Third Wave" of democratization that swept across East Asia in the last decades of the twentieth century. Christian Schafferer's work looks beyond regional and global causes to pinpoint the true indigenous foundations of Taiwan's--and on a broader scale East Asia's--political development, and examines the pivotal importance of Taiwanese local elections in the island's democratization process. Based on extensive research and in-depth interviews with leading Taiwanese politicians and political scientists, the book provides a detailed history of Taiwan's electoral experience from the turn of the twentieth century, through the Kuomintang regime, to the present day. This is supplemented by a focused case study of the watershed 1997 Taiwanese local elections and their profound impact on the Taiwanese political landscape.
Against Elections
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Author : David Van Reybrouck
language : en
Publisher: Seven Stories Press
Release Date : 2018-04-17
Against Elections written by David Van Reybrouck and has been published by Seven Stories Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-04-17 with Political Science categories.
A small book with great weight and urgency to it, this is both a history of democracy and a clarion call for change. "Without drastic adjustment, this system cannot last much longer," writes Van Reybrouck, regarded today as one of Europe's most astute thinkers. "If you look at the decline in voter turnout and party membership, and at the way politicians are held in contempt, if you look at how difficult it is to form governments, how little they can do and how harshly they are punished for it, if you look at how quickly populism, technocracy and anti-parliamentarianism are rising, if you look at how more and more citizens are longing for participation and how quickly that desire can tip over into frustration, then you realize we are up to our necks." Not so very long ago, the great battles of democracy were fought for the right to vote. Now, Van Reybrouck writes, "it's all about the right to speak, but in essence it's the same battle, the battle for political emancipation and for democratic participation. We must decolonize democracy. We must democratize democracy." As history, Van Reybrouck makes the compelling argument that modern democracy was designed as much to preserve the rights of the powerful and keep the masses in line, as to give the populace a voice. As change-agent, Against Elections makes the argument that there are forms of government, what he terms sortitive or deliberative democracy, that are beginning to be practiced around the world, and can be the remedy we seek. In Iceland, for example, deliberative democracy was used to write the new constitution. A group of people were chosen by lot, educated in the subject at hand, and then were able to decide what was best, arguably, far better than politicians would have. A fascinating, and workable idea has led to a timely book to remind us that our system of government is a flexible instrument, one that the people have the power to change.
The Street And The Ballot Box
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Author : Lynette H. Ong
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2022-02-24
The Street And The Ballot Box written by Lynette H. Ong and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-02-24 with Social Science categories.
How do discontented masses and opposition elites work together to engineer a change in electoral authoritarian regimes? Social movements and elections are often seen as operating in different terrains – outside and inside institutions, respectively. In this Element, I develop a theory to describe how a broad-based social movement that champions a grievance shared by a wide segment of the population can build alliances across society and opposition elites that, despite the rules of the game rigged against them, vote the incumbents out of power. The broad-based nature of the movement also contributes to the cohesion of the opposition alliance, and elite defection, which are often crucial for regime change. This Element examines the 2018 Malaysian election and a range of cases from other authoritarian regimes across Asia, Eastern Europe, and Africa to illustrate these arguments.