Executing Democracy
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Executing Democracy
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Author : Stephen J. Hartnett
language : en
Publisher: MSU Press
Release Date : 2012-11-01
Executing Democracy written by Stephen J. Hartnett and has been published by MSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-11-01 with Language Arts & Disciplines categories.
This eye-opening and well-researched companion to the first volume of Executing Democracy enters the death-penalty discussion during the debates of 1835 and 1843, when pro-death penalty Calvinist minister George Barrell Cheever faced off against abolitionist magazine editor John O’Sullivan. In contrast to the macro-historical overview presented in volume 1, volume 2 provides micro-historical case studies, using these debates as springboards into the discussion of the death penalty in America at large. Incorporating a wide range of sources, including political poems, newspaper editorials, and warring manifestos, this second volume highlights a variety of perspectives, thus demonstrating the centrality of public debates about crime, violence, and punishment to the history of American democracy. Hartnett’s insightful assessment bears witness to a complex national discussion about the political, metaphysical, and cultural significance of the death penalty.
Executing Democracy
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Author : Stephen John Hartnett
language : en
Publisher: MSU Press
Release Date : 2012-01-01
Executing Democracy written by Stephen John Hartnett and has been published by MSU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-01 with Social Science categories.
Executing Democracy: Capital Punishment & the Making of America, 1683-1807 is the first volume of a rhetorical history of public debates about crime, violence, and capital punishment in America. This examination begins in 1683, when William Penn first struggled to govern the rowdy indentured servants of Philadelphia, and continues up until 1807, when the Federalists sought to impose law-and-order upon the New Republic. This volume offers a lively historical overview of how crime, violence, and capital punishment influenced the settling of the New World, the American Revolution, and the frantic post-war political scrambling to establish norms that would govern the new republic. By presenting a macro-historical overview, and by filling the arguments with voices from different political camps and communicative genres, Hartnett provides readers with fresh perspectives for understanding the centrality of public debates about capital punishment to the history of American democracy.
Executing Democracy
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Author : Stephen John Hartnett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Executing Democracy written by Stephen John Hartnett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Capital punishment categories.
The Coming Democracy
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Author : Ann Florini
language : en
Publisher: Island Press
Release Date : 2013-04-10
The Coming Democracy written by Ann Florini and has been published by Island Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-10 with Political Science categories.
National governments are proving ill-equipped to manage an increasingly complicated suite of global problems, from infectious diseases to climate change to conflicts over international trade. In The Coming Democracy, leading political analyst Ann Florini sets forth a compelling new paradigm for transnational governance, one based on the concept of "transparency"-- the idea that the free flow of information (on topics ranging from corporate and government behavior to nuclear proliferation to biodiversity protection) provides powerful ways to hold decision makers accountable and to give ordinary people meaningful voice in shaping the policies that affect them. Dramatic breakthroughs in information technology of the past decade have made such transparency possible on a global scale.Florini offers a clear and comprehensive assessment of the possibilities for using transparency to develop effective approaches to transnational governance. She shows how this new form of governance promises real hope for managing global problems, and provides a compelling scenario that demonstrates how existing conventions and institutions can lead the way in the evolution of a better system of global governance.
Technocracy And Democracy In Latin America
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Author : Eduardo Dargent
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2015
Technocracy And Democracy In Latin America written by Eduardo Dargent 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 2015 with Medical categories.
Praised by some as islands of efficiency in a sea of unprofessional, politicized, and corrupt states, and criticized by others for removing wide areas of policy making from the democratic arena, technocrats have become prominent and controversial actors in Latin American politics. Through an in-depth analysis of economic and health policy in Colombia from 1958 to 2011 and in Peru from 1980 to 2011, Technocracy and Democracy in Latin America explains the source of these experts' power as well as the leverage they have across state policy sectors in Latin America.
Performing Democracy
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Author : Susan C. Haedicke
language : en
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Release Date : 2001
Performing Democracy written by Susan C. Haedicke and has been published by University of Michigan Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Literary Criticism categories.
International perspectives on a form of activist, participatory theater with marginalized groups in cities around the world
Is This Any Way To Run A Democratic Government
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Author : Stephen J. Wayne
language : en
Publisher: Georgetown University Press
Release Date : 2004-04-15
Is This Any Way To Run A Democratic Government written by Stephen J. Wayne and has been published by Georgetown University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-04-15 with Political Science categories.
Has our system of checks and balances between the three branches of our federal government undergone changes for good or ill over the years since the Constitution was set as the cornerstone of our nation? How stand our political traditions, our personal freedoms, our purported equality, our sense of governance "of, by, and for the people"? Are we the democratic nation we set out to be, or do we have a distance to go to achieve this ideal? Alternatively, is approaching a democratic ideal desirable today in the light of the smaller, more integrated, and dangerous world in which we live? Is This Any Way to Run a Democratic Government? examines the theory and practice of American democracy and the dichotomy that currently exists between them. The contributors assess both the reasons—and the consequences—of this division between the theory of democracy and how it is played out in actuality. Focusing on the here and now, this book is about the institutions, process, and politics of government: how well they work; whether they meet the criteria for a viable democratic system; and the extent to which they contribute to good public policy. As we begin the 21st century, with rancorous political partisanship and threats to domestic security and tranquility at an all-time high, Is This Any Way to Run a Democratic Government? asks us to think seriously about the state of our much-heralded democracy, and whether or not our political system can respond to the pressing needs of a new era without jeopardizing the basic values and beliefs that underlie its very foundation.
Executing Democracy
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Author : Stephen J. Hartnett
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Executing Democracy written by Stephen J. Hartnett and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Capital punishment categories.
Executing Democracy: Capital Punishment & the Making of America, 1683-1807 is the first volume of a rhetorical history of public debates about crime, violence, and capital punishment in America. This examination begins in 1683, when William Penn first struggled to govern the rowdy indentured servants of Philadelphia, and continues up until 1807, when the Federalists sought to impose law-and-order upon the New Republic. This volume offers a lively historical overview of how crime, violence, and capital punishment influenced the settling of the New World, the American Revolution, and the f.
Why The World Is Run By Idiots
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Author : Karim Ali Salaheddine
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020-08-20
Why The World Is Run By Idiots written by Karim Ali Salaheddine and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-20 with categories.
In a world where the number of true democracies are decreasing by the day, it is a must that we ask ourselves why. Current political leaders in the free world are now setting precedents through their actions in a way that will have ever-lasting effects on the few states and sovereign nations that have managed so far to preserve the freedom of the people. With a growing wave of naivety among voters, populists and anarchists have managed to garner widespread support that could essentially mean the beginning of an era of oppression on a global scale. The fact that governments have done nothing to raise the bar with regards to who can launch political campaigns is further proof of how hard it might be to destroy such establishments once they are there. In hopes of destroying the aspirations of citizens, rulers have resorted to cut funding to educational institutions and academic foundations to dumb down next generations and set new norms of life where necessities turn into privileges. The obsolete curriculums and educational methods, on the other hand, have not helped in creating bonds between young people and their tutors, contributing to the destruction of societies by bringing up voters easily persuaded by astute activists that have zero intention of leaving office once elected. In other words, the majority of eligible voters, if not properly educated and brought up to develop crucial skills in order to read between the lines of political speeches, through critical thinking and analysis, pose the biggest threat to democracy itself by being prone to deliberately vote for the wrong person, without being able to forsee the consequences.In this book, the author takes his time to present his view on the matter and offer clear, possible solutions to curb such danger through a transitional phase that focuses on giving the educational sector the attention it deserves in order to preserve nations. He manages to shed the light on the clear link between politics and academics through historical events and ongoing cases of politics to show what is at stake. For him, it is either democratic activities on the condition of fulfilling eligibility criteria, or no democracy at all.
Democracy By Decree
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Author : Ross Sandler
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2004-01-01
Democracy By Decree written by Ross Sandler and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-01-01 with Philosophy categories.
Schools, welfare agencies, and a wide variety of other state and local institutions of vital importance to citizens are actually controlled by attorneys and judges rather than governors and mayors. In this valuable book, Ross Sandler and David Schoenbrod explain how this has come to pass, why it has resulted in service to the public that is worse, not better, and what can be done to restore control of these programs to democratically elected—and accountable—officials. Sandler and Schoenbrod tell how the courts, with the best intentions and often with the approval of elected officials, came to control ordinary policy making through court decrees. These court regimes, they assert, impose rigid and often ancient detailed plans that can founder on reality. Newly elected officials, who may wish to alter the plans in response to the changing wishes of voters, cannot do so unless attorneys, court-appointed functionaries, and lower-echelon officials agree. The result is neither judicial government nor good government, say Sandler and Schoenbrod, and they offer practical reforms that would set governments free from this judicial stranglehold, allow courts to do their legitimate job of protecting rights, and strengthen democracy.