The Case For Everyday Democracy
DOWNLOAD
Download The Case For Everyday Democracy PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get The Case For Everyday Democracy book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
The Case For Everyday Democracy
DOWNLOAD
Author : Milenko Matanovic
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019-05-10
The Case For Everyday Democracy written by Milenko Matanovic and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-10 with categories.
Every day there are thousands of community meetings taking place throughout the country where we, the people, shape decisions for the future. This handbook offers guidance and inspiration for turning those meetings into productive, meaningful and even joyful events that strengthen our everyday democracy.
The Case For Democracy And Its Meaning For Modern Life
DOWNLOAD
Author : Ordway Tead
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1938
The Case For Democracy And Its Meaning For Modern Life written by Ordway Tead and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1938 with Democracy categories.
The Case For Democracy
DOWNLOAD
Author : Natan Sharansky
language : en
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Release Date : 2009-02-23
The Case For Democracy written by Natan Sharansky and has been published by PublicAffairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-23 with Political Science categories.
Natan Sharansky believes that the truest expression of democracy is the ability to stand in the middle of a town square and express one's views without fear of imprisonment. He should know. A dissident in the USSR, Sharansky was jailed for nine years for challenging Soviet policies. During that time he reinforced his moral conviction that democracy is essential to both protecting human rights and maintaining global peace and security. Sharansky was catapulted onto the Israeli political stage in 1996. In the last eight years, he has served as a minister in four different Israeli cabinets, including a stint as Deputy Prime Minister, playing a key role in government decision making from the peace negotiations at Wye to the war against Palestinian terror. In his views, he has been as consistent as he has been stubborn: Tyranny, whether in the Soviet Union or the Middle East, must always be made to bow before democracy. Drawing on a lifetime of experience of democracy and its absence, Sharansky believes that only democracy can safeguard the well-being of societies. For Sharansky, when it comes to democracy, politics is not a matter of left and right, but right and wrong. This is a passionately argued book from a man who carries supreme moral authority to make the case he does here: that the spread of democracy everywhere is not only possible, but also essential to the survival of our civilization. His argument is sure to stir controversy on all sides; this is arguably the great issue of our times.
Routeing Democracy In The Himalayas
DOWNLOAD
Author : Vibha Arora
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2020-11-29
Routeing Democracy In The Himalayas written by Vibha Arora and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-11-29 with Political Science categories.
Historically treated as an amorphous borderland and marginal to the understanding of democratic politics and governance in South Asia, Southeast Asia and northern Asia, the Himalayan region, in the last 50 years, has become an ‘active political laboratory’ for experiments in democratic structures and institutions. In turn, it has witnessed the evolution of myriad political ideologies, movements and administrative strategies to accommodate and pacify heterogeneous ethnic-national identities. Routeing Democracy in the Himalayas highlights how, through an ongoing process of democratisation, the Western liberal ideologies of democracy and decentralisation have interacted with varied indigenous politico-cultural ideas and institutions of an ethnic-nationally diverse population. It also reviews how formal democracy, regular elections, local self-governing structures, protection of the rights of minorities and indigenes, freedom of expression, development of mass media and formation of ethnic homelands — all have furthered participatory democracy, empowered the traditionally marginalised groups and ensured sustainable development to varying degrees. The book provides ethnographic and historical vistas of democracy under formation, at work, being contested and even being undermined, showing how democratisation thematically stitches the independent Himalayan nations and the Indian Himalayan states into a distinctive regional political mosaic. Combining new perspectives from comparative sociology, political anthropology and development studies, the volume will be useful for policy makers, as well as specialists, researchers and students in sociology, anthropology, area studies, development studies, and Tibet and Himalayan studies.
Educating For Deliberative Democracy
DOWNLOAD
Author : Nancy L. Thomas
language : en
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Release Date : 2010
Educating For Deliberative Democracy written by Nancy L. Thomas and has been published by John Wiley & Sons this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Education categories.
What needs to be done to strengthen U.S. democracy, to make it work the way it should? Each generation of Americans asks some version of this question, but this book offers an answer that recognizes the heightened urgency and hopefulness in the way individuals are asking the question today. At the heart of the debate is a conviction that persistent public problems call for dialogue and deliberation that results in collective action by diverse groups of informed, skilled motivated, and prinicipled citizens--what many call "deliberative democracy". In this book, contributing authors and editor Nancy L. Thomas focus on the unique role that higher education can play--alongside private, civic and government sectors--in the collaborative process of strengthening democracy. This is the 152nd volume of the Jossey-Bass quarterly report series "New Directions for Higher Education". Addressed to presidents, vice presidents, deans, and other higher-education decision-makers on all kinds of campuses, "New Directions for Higher Education" provides timely information and authoritative advice about major issues and administrative problems confronting every institution. Contents of this book include: (1) Teaching and Learning Civility (Peter Levine); (2) Putting Politics Where It Belongs: In the Classroom (Diana Hess and Lauren Gatti); (3) The Difficult Dialogues Initiative at Clark University: a Case Study (Sarah Buie and Walter Wright); (4) Intergroup Dialogue and Democratic Practice in Higher Education (Gretchen E. Lopez and Ximena Zuniga); (5) "To Establish an Effective Community Spirit": a Land Grant Extension and Deliberative Dialogue (Monica Herrera and Joyce Hoelting); (6) Facilitating Democracy: Centers and Institutes of Public Deliberation and Collaborative Problem Solving (Martin Carcasson); (7) Research for Democracy and Democracy for Research (Kiran Cunningham and Matt Leighninger); (8) Power, Privilege, and the Public: The Dynamics of Community-University Collaboration (Byron P. White); (9) Democratizing Academic Professionalism Inside and Out (Albert W. Dzur); (10) The Politics of Academic Freedom (Nancy L. Thomas); (11) Practicing What We Preach: Democratic Practices in Institutional Governance (Bruce L. Mallory); and (12) Higher Education's Democratic Imperative (Nancy L. Thomas and Matthew Hartley). Additional resources and an index are also included.
Democratic Governance And Accountability In Africa
DOWNLOAD
Author : Adebayo O. Olukoshi
language : en
Publisher: Nordic Africa Institute
Release Date : 2011
Democratic Governance And Accountability In Africa written by Adebayo O. Olukoshi and has been published by Nordic Africa Institute this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Political Science categories.
This Discussion Paper provides a thought-provoking and radical intervention into the ongoing debates on democratic governance and accountability in Africa. The author undertakes a critical overview of the discourse on democratisation in Africa and notes that democracy on the continent cannot be fully understood on the basis of the ways in which electoral pluralism has played out in the last 20 years. The paper critiques mainstream explanations and points out their shortcomings. It goes on to make a compelling case for an alternative framework based on historically informed dialectical analysis of everyday democracy and struggles for democracy in Africa. Noting that no two democracies are exactly the same, the paper advocates the need for democracy in Africa to be studied on its own terms, and in a way that facilitates taking the African experience into the global arena to produce a truly comparative theory of democratisation on a world scale. The paper is essential reading for all those interested in the history, present and future of democracy in Africa.
Authoritarian Police In Democracy
DOWNLOAD
Author : Yanilda María González
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2020-11-12
Authoritarian Police In Democracy written by Yanilda María González 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 2020-11-12 with Political Science categories.
Explains the persistence of violent, unaccountable policing in democratic contexts.
Popular Culture Family Relations And Issues Of Everyday Democracy
DOWNLOAD
Author : Bodil Folke Frederiksen
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2000
Popular Culture Family Relations And Issues Of Everyday Democracy written by Bodil Folke Frederiksen and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Nairobi (Kenya) categories.
Slow Democracy
DOWNLOAD
Author : Susan Clark
language : en
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Release Date : 2012-10-10
Slow Democracy written by Susan Clark and has been published by Chelsea Green Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-10-10 with Political Science categories.
Reconnecting with the sources of decisions that affect us, and with the processes of democracy itself, is at the heart of 21st-century sustainable communities. Slow Democracy chronicles the ways in which ordinary people have mobilized to find local solutions to local problems. It invites us to bring the advantages of "slow" to our community decision making. Just as slow food encourages chefs and eaters to become more intimately involved with the production of local food, slow democracy encourages us to govern ourselves locally with processes that are inclusive, deliberative, and citizen powered. Susan Clark and Woden Teachout outline the qualities of real, local decision making and show us the range of ways that communities are breathing new life into participatory democracy around the country. We meet residents who seize back control of their municipal water systems from global corporations, parents who find unique solutions to seemingly divisive school-redistricting issues, and a host of other citizens across the nation who have designed local decision-making systems to solve the problems unique to their area in ways that work best for their communities. Though rooted in the direct participation that defined our nation's early days, slow democracy is not a romantic vision for reigniting the ways of old. Rather, the strategies outlined here are uniquely suited to 21st-century technologies and culture.If our future holds an increased focus on local food, local energy, and local economy, then surely we will need to improve our skills at local governance as well.
Referendums As Representative Democracy
DOWNLOAD
Author : Leah Trueblood
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2024-04-18
Referendums As Representative Democracy written by Leah Trueblood and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-04-18 with Law categories.
In referendums on fundamental constitutional issues, do the people come together to make decisions instead of representatives? This book argues no. It offers an alternative theory of referendums whereby they are one of many ordinary ways that voters give direction to their representatives. In this way, the book argues that referendums are better understood as exercises in representative democracy. The book challenges the current treatment of referendums in processes of constitutional change both in the UK and around the world. It argues that referendums have been used under the banner of popular sovereignty in a way that undermines representative institutions. This book makes the case for the use of referendums stronger by showing how they can support, rather than undermine, institutions of representative democracy. Understanding referendums as exercises in representative democracy has broader implications for constitutional democracy as well. Rather than see the power to constitute constitutions as something that happens occasionally in exceptional moments through referendums, this book argues instead that voters constantly have the power to constitute and reconstitute their constitutions.