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Democracy Under Siege
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Author : Augusto Varas
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 1989-07-07
Democracy Under Siege written by Augusto Varas and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-07-07 with History categories.
Although the military has historically played a pivotal role in Latin American politics and society, until now little attention has been paid to the complex set of civilian-military relations in each country. This collection of essays, the product of a long-term research program organized by a group of prominent Latin American scholars, compares current linkages among the armed forces and local social and political structures and institutions. Within each nation studied, the contributing author found increasing military autonomy vis-a-vis the state. They show that this institutional autonomy has allowed the military to develop as independent political entities within the various countries, a process that seems to be common to all Latin American societies. Their research also demonstrates how the military diversifies itself when acquiring higher degrees of institutional autonomy. Collectively, the contributors contend that although civilian democratic forces will play a much larger role in political decisionmaking in this decade as compared to the last, it is evident that armed forces will retain a considerable share of political power. Regardless of the institutional arrangement, the military will continue to exercise significant veto power over civilian political forces. The independent military that has emerged is a new variable that must be taken into account in future analyses of Latin America's secular political crisis. By compiling the first complete analysis of Latin American military forces and their role in contemporary domestic politics, editor Augusto Varas has made a significant contribution to the study of Latin American politics. This first examination of the role of the armed forces during a period of relative political stability will be welcomed by historians and political scientists alike.
Local Democracy Under Siege
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Author : Dorothy Holland
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2007-02-07
Local Democracy Under Siege written by Dorothy Holland and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-02-07 with Social Science categories.
2007 Society for the Anthropology of North America (SANA) Book Award Complete List of Authors:Dorothy Holland, Donald M. Nonini, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, Marla Frederick-McGlathery, Thaddeus C. Guldbrandsen, and Enrique G. Murillo, Jr. What is the state of democracy at the turn of the twenty-first century? To answer this question, seven scholars lived for a year in five North Carolina communities. They observed public meetings of all sorts, had informal and formal interviews with people, and listened as people conversed with each other at bus stops and barbershops, soccer games and workplaces. Their collaborative ethnography allows us to understand how diverse members of a community not just the elite think about and experience “politics” in ways that include much more than merely voting. This book illustrates how the social and economic changes of the last three decades have made some new routes to active democratic participation possible while making others more difficult. Local Democracy Under Siege suggests how we can account for the current limitations of U.S. democracy and how remedies can be created that ensure more meaningful participation by a greater range of people. Complete List of Authors (pictured) From Left to Right, bottom row: Enrique Murillo, Jr., Thaddeus Guldbrandsen, Marla Frederick-McGlathery. Top row: Dorothy Holland, Catherine Lutz, Lesley Bartlett, and Don Nonini.
Democracy Under Siege
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Author : Frank Furedi
language : en
Publisher: John Hunt Publishing
Release Date : 2020-10-30
Democracy Under Siege written by Frank Furedi and has been published by John Hunt Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-10-30 with Political Science categories.
Frank Furedi examines the frequent claim that democracy is a means to an end rather than an important value in and of itself. The prevalence of this sentiment in the current era is not surprising, given that the normative foundation for democracy is fragile, and there is little cultural valuation for this outlook. Until recently, virtually every serious commentator paid lip-service to democracy. However, in recent times the classical elitist disdain for democracy and for the moral and intellectual capacity of the electorate has acquired a powerful influence over public life. Democracy Under Siege outlines the long history of anti-democratic thought, explains why hostility to democracy has gained momentum in the current era, and offers a positive affirmation of the principle and the value of democracy.
Democracy Under Siege
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Author : Timothy Hellwig
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2020-07-14
Democracy Under Siege written by Timothy Hellwig and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-14 with Business & Economics categories.
The Global Financial Crisis of 2008-2009 was catalyst for the most precipitous economic downturn in eight decades. This book examines how the GFC and ensuing Great Recession affected electoral politics in the world's developed democracies. The initial wave of research on the crisis concluded it did little to change the established relationships between voters, parties, and elections. Yet nearly a decade since the initial shock, the political landscape has changed in many ways, the extent to which has not been fully explained by existing studies. Democracy Under Siege? pushes against the received wisdom by advancing a framework for understanding citizen attitudes, preferences, and behaviour. It makes two central claims. First, while previous studies of the GFC tend to focus on an immediate impact of the crisis, Hellwig, Kweon, and Vowles argue that economic malaise has a long lasting impact. In addition to economic shock, the economic recovery has a significant impact on citizens' assessment of political elites. Second, the authors argue that unanticipated exogenous shocks like the GFC grants party elites an opening for political manoeuvre through public policy and rhetoric. As a result, political elites have a high degree of agency to shape public perceptions and behaviour. Political parties can strategically moderate citizens' economic uncertainty, mobilise/demobilise voters, and alter individuals' political preferences. By leveraging data from over 150,000 individuals across over 100 nationally-representative post-election surveys from the 1990s to 2017, this book shows how economic change during a tumultuous era affected economic perceptions, policy demands, political participation, and the vote. The Comparative Study of Electoral Systems (CSES) is a collaborative program of research among election study teams from around the world. Participating countries include a common module of survey questions in their post-election studies. The resulting data are deposited along with voting, demographic, district, and macro variables. The studies are then merged into a single, free, public dataset for use in comparative study and cross-level analysis. The set of volumes in this series is based on these CSES modules, and the volumes address the key theoretical issues and empirical debates in the study of elections and representative democracy. Some of the volumes will be organized around the theoretical issues raised by a particular module, while others will be thematic in their focus. Taken together, these volumes will provide a rigorous and ongoing contribution to understanding the expansion and consolidation of democracy in the twenty-first century. Series editors: Hans-Dieter Klingemann and Ian McAllister.
Democracy Under Siege
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Author : Bob McGill
language : en
Publisher: Archway Publishing
Release Date : 2024-06-19
Democracy Under Siege written by Bob McGill and has been published by Archway Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-06-19 with History categories.
Can anything bring a greater sense of awe than viewing a chain of mountains from afar? Observing a long line of craggy peaks spread across the horizon and rising upward into an azure skyline gives a special perspectives to what a mountain really is. Such sites provide memorable experiences that last a lifetime.. Hiking that same mountain chain provides another perspective to the mountains. The rough terrain, winding and hazardous paths, and sheer drop-off cliffs provide a totally different, if equally memorable perspective. There are dangers in walking in the midst of mountains. Mountains can be hazardous. So it is with politics. Democracy, too, is a beautiful thing. This nation embodies a near-perfect set of rules and guidelines devised by men that we call our founding fathers and embodied in a document we call a constitution. Our constitution, too, creates a sense of awe. Today, watching the daily machinations of politics; the, the process of voting, campaigning, maneuvering, the political intrigue and the oversized egos of so many of our politicians throughout the nation makes us wonder. Politics, too, has its craggy paths and steep cliffs that so many of us disdain. It, too has its precarious nature.. At no time since the civil war has the fractured nature of the nation been more obvious than in the current political scene. Democracy is under attack, in danger of being replaced by an autocratic form of government. The author of this book has lived through the presidency of 15 chief executives—that’s 84 years of presidency. Born in the mid-west into a Republican family of long-standing, McGill spent his early years cementing that early belief through family conversations and school classes listening to history and civic teachers. He developed the engrained belief that, somehow, the Republicans best served the needs of the American people. It was sometime during his college years that the author began the long shift from Republican to Democrat. McGill shares that transition even as he warns about the current political dangers threatening the future of the nation. There is an urgency to the book—a concern for the future the children of today. A recurring question in the book asks about the world the children and grandchild will inherit.
Held Together By Pins
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Author : Tatah Mentan
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
Held Together By Pins written by Tatah Mentan and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Democracy categories.
Held Together By Pins Liberal Democracy Under Siege In Africa
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2015
Held Together By Pins Liberal Democracy Under Siege In Africa written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with categories.
Liberalism Under Siege
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Author : Aurelian Craiutu
language : en
Publisher: Lexington Books
Release Date : 2003-09-16
Liberalism Under Siege written by Aurelian Craiutu and has been published by Lexington Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-09-16 with History categories.
Liberalism under Siege: The Political Thought of the French Doctrinaries is a compelling examination of the French Doctrinaries, a largely neglected group of liberal thinkers in post-revolutionary France who were proponents of a nuanced sociological and historical approach to political theory. The first systematic interpretation of the French Doctrinaries' political writings to appear in English, Liberalism under Siege combines textual analysis and historical interpretation to explore the Doctrinaires' ideas on the French Revolution, democracy, political power, sovereignty of reason, publicity, capacity, and representative government. Aurelian Craiutu's detailed work is not only an argument for the reappraisal of the Bourbon Restoration as a golden age of political thought; it is also a passionate and persuasive addition to contemporary debates about the diversity of liberalism.
Democracy Under Siege
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Author : David George Druce Yencken
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Democracy Under Siege written by David George Druce Yencken and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Australia categories.
Democracy Under Siege
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Author : Mark Sobel
language : en
Publisher: Independently Published
Release Date : 2021-06-17
Democracy Under Siege written by Mark Sobel and has been published by Independently Published this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-06-17 with categories.
In this critical study of the present threat to American Democracy from the legacy of the Trump Presidency and the violent insurrection at America's Capitol on January 6, 2021, filmmaker Mark Sobel takes us on a journey that spans the ongoing influence of Trumpism in America, and considers possible steps to assure the survival of democracy in the United States. This collection of author essays calls out the former President's unrelenting lies and racist speeches, looking at how they "programmed" the thinking of a large percentage of American voters. The work examines the dangers posed by Trump's party in its ongoing efforts to rewrite history, and suggests that without immediate creation of a new Center-Right opposition party the United States could find herself at the end of an almost 250-year "experiment" in Democratic Rule. Additional topics range from how the world regards the separation of migrant children from their parents under International Law, to Wall Street's alleged subversion of the legislation by Congress to save the homes of 4 million American families during the Great Recession, to how the economic system might be made more fair for all Americans. The author is a Los Angeles based independent filmmaker and a director of numerous movies for Network and Cable television. He has been in post-production for a number of years on a personal labor-of-love independent motion picture, "The Commission," featuring Martin Sheen, Sam Waterston, Martin Landau, Joe Don Baker, Corbin Bernsen and Ed Asner. The film's screenplay is adapted from the formerly Top Secret transcripts of the private meetings of the Warren Commissioners in 1964, originally to have remained Classified and sealed until the year 2039. Not a "who-done-it?" but a suspense/drama drawn from the Commissioners' own words, the film is a study of the hypocrisy that takes place behind closed doors in Washington D.C. when issues of Politics and Justice collide.