Envisioning Democracy
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Envisioning Democracy
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Author : Terry Maley
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2023-02-27
Envisioning Democracy written by Terry Maley and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-02-27 with Political Science categories.
Few terms elicit such strong and varied feelings and yet have so little clarity as "democracy." Leaders of large states use "democracy" to designate their nations’ public character even as critics and rivals use the term to validate their own political perspectives. In Envisioning Democracy, the editors and contributors address the following questions: What does democracy mean today? What could it mean tomorrow? What is the dynamic of democracy in an increasingly interdependent world? Envisioning Democracy explores these questions amid the dynamic of democracy as a political phenomenon interacting with forms of economic, ethical, ethnic, and intellectual life. The book draws on the work of Sheldon S. Wolin (1922–2015), one of the most influential American theorists of the last fifty years. Here, scholars consider the historical conditions, theoretical elements, and practical impediments to democracy, using Wolin’s insights as touchstones in thinking through the possibilities and obstacles facing democracy now and in the future.
Envisioning Democracy New Essays Aftehb
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Author : Terry Maley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023-04-15
Envisioning Democracy New Essays Aftehb written by Terry Maley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-04-15 with categories.
Drawing on the thought of Sheldon Wolin, a major American political theorist, this collection presents fresh understandings of contemporary democracy.
Envisioning Democracy
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Author : Terry Maley
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2023
Envisioning Democracy written by Terry Maley and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023 with POLITICAL SCIENCE categories.
"There is no political term today that has a greater cachet and so little clarity than democracy. Leaders of large states use it to designate their nations' public character, while it is also used by critics of leaders calling themselves "democratic" to spearhead their calls for political reforms. In Envisioning Democracy, Terry Maley and John R. Wallach address the following key questions: What does democracy mean today? What could it mean tomorrow? What is the dynamic of democracy, especially in an increasingly interdependent world of growing inequality, that can be captured by authoritarian populist leaders? Envisioning Democracy explores these questions amid the dynamic of democracy as a political phenomenon interacting with forms of economic, ethical, and intellectual life. The book draws on the thought of one of America's greatest writers on democracy in the last fifty years, Sheldon S. Wolin (1922-2015). In this collection, scholars consider the historical conditions, theoretical elements, and practical impediments to democracy, relying on Wolin's insights as touchstones in thinking through what democracy means now and what it could mean in the future. Envisioning Democracy presents new perspectives on longstanding, current, and future issues surrounding democracy and liberalism in political theory."--
Liberal Rights And Political Culture
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Author : Zhenghuan Zhou
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-10-14
Liberal Rights And Political Culture written by Zhenghuan Zhou and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-10-14 with History categories.
This book argues that the liberal concept of rights presupposes and is grounded in an individualistic culture or shared way of relating, and that this particular shared way of relating emerged only in the wake of the Reformation in the modern West.
The Democratic Imagination
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Author : James Irvine Cairns
language : en
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Release Date : 2012-01-01
The Democratic Imagination written by James Irvine Cairns and has been published by University of Toronto Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Political Science categories.
The Democratic Imagination examines different conceptions of democracy, exploring tensions that emerge in key moments and debates in the history of democracy, from Ancient Greece to the French Revolution to contemporary Egypt.
Re Envisioning Education Democracy
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Author : Ruthanne Kurth-Schai
language : en
Publisher: IAP
Release Date : 2016-04-01
Re Envisioning Education Democracy written by Ruthanne Kurth-Schai and has been published by IAP this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-01 with Education categories.
The future of public education and democracy is at risk. Powerful forces are eroding commitment to public schools and weakening democratic resolve. Yet even in deeply troubling times, it is possible to broaden social imagination and empower effective advocacy for systemic progressive reform. Re-envisioning Education and Democracy explores challenges and opportunities for restructuring public education to establish and sustain more broadly inclusive, deeply democratic, and effectively transforming approaches to social inquiry and civic participation. Re-envisioning Education and Democracy adopts a non-traditional format to extend social awareness and imagination. Within each chapter, one episode of an evolving strategic narrative traces the life cycle of a systemic reform initiative. This is followed by an exploratory essay that draws from theory, research, criticism, and practice to prompt consideration of focal issues. Woven through each chapter is a poetically framed meditative stream informed by varied historical and cultural conceptions of oracles. A developmental sequence of social learning strategies (exploratory democratic practices), accompanied by thematic bibliographic references, are included to model democratic teaching and learning applicable in classroom and community settings.
Envisioning Democracy
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Author : Lloyd G. Waller
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
Envisioning Democracy written by Lloyd G. Waller and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Computers categories.
Using ICT to enhance the political participation of the visually impaired.
Dictators Democracy And American Public Culture
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Author : Benjamin Leontief Alpers
language : en
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Release Date : 2003-01-01
Dictators Democracy And American Public Culture written by Benjamin Leontief Alpers and has been published by Univ of North Carolina Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-01 with History categories.
Focusing on portrayals of Mussolini's Italy, Hitler's Germany, and Stalin's Russia in U.S. films, magazine and newspaper articles, books, plays, speeches, and other texts, Benjamin Alpers traces changing American understandings of dictatorship from the la
Legislature By Lot
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Author : Erik Olin Wright
language : en
Publisher: Verso Books
Release Date : 2019-04-09
Legislature By Lot written by Erik Olin Wright and has been published by Verso Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-09 with Political Science categories.
Democracy means rule by the people, but in practice even the most robust democracies delegate most rule making to a political class. The gap between the public and its public officials might seem unbridgeable in the modern world, but Legislature by Lot presents a close examination of an inspiring solution: a legislature chosen through "sortition"-the random selection of lay citizens. It's a concept that has come to the attention of democratic reformers across the globe. Proposals for such bodies are being debated in Australia, Belgium, Iceland, the United Kingdom, and many other countries. Sortition promises to reduce corruption and create a truly representative legislature in one fell swoop. In Legislature by Lot, John Gastil and Erik Olin Wright make the case for pairing a sortition body with an elected chamber within a bicameral legislature. Gastil is a leading deliberative democracy scholar, and Wright a distinguished sociologist and series editor of the Real Utopias books, of which this is a part. In this volume, they bring together critics and advocates of sortition who studied ancient Athens, deliberative polling, political theory, social movements, and civic innovation. The constellation of voices in this book lays out a wide variety of ideas for how to implement sortition, without obscuring its limitations, and examine its potential for reshaping modern politics. Legislature by Lot includes sixteen essays that respond to Gastil and Wright's detailed proposal. Essays comparing it to contemporary reforms see it as a dramatic extension of deliberative "minipublics," which gather random samples of citizens to weight public policy dilemmas without being empowered to enact legislation. Another set of essays explores the democratic principles underlying sortition and elections and considers, for example, how a sortition body holds itself accountable to a public that did not elect it. The third set of essays consider alternative paths to democratic reform, which limit the powers of a sortition chamber or more quickly establish a pure sortition body.
Envisioning Caribbean Futures
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Author : Brian Meeks
language : en
Publisher: University of the West Indies Press
Release Date : 2007
Envisioning Caribbean Futures written by Brian Meeks and has been published by University of the West Indies Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Philosophy categories.
Employing critical analysis of Caribbean intellectual thought and of the postcolonial political economy, Brian Meeks sets about proposing a manifesto for the future. What emerges is a programme for the medium term, which is pragmatic in its efforts to deal with the current crisis without engaging in the romanticism of an all-encompassing revolutionary transformation. Meeks suggests a form of participatory reorganization without, necessarily, dismantling the fundamentals of formal democratic organization. Particular emphasis is placed on rural agro-producers because their empowerment, politically and economically, resolves the problem of elite domination while creating the conditions for economic democracy. He argues, finally, that the proposals can become the basis for a more fundamental social and intellectual transformation from, following Sylvia Wynter, "man" to "human," based on democracy, community and solidarity