Democratic Decision-Making

Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Herausgeber: Schaefer, David Lewis

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Produktbeschreibung

Democratic Decision-Making: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives contains eight essays by political scientists, all but one of them previously unpublished, addressing various aspects of the democratic decision-making process. The book consists of four parts, each consisting of two essays devoted to a common theme: democratic statesmanship, the extent to which limitations of the democratic principle of majority rule are desirable, the contemporary academic theory of "deliberative democracy," and informal modes of democratic decision-making.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Lexington Books
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9780739142066
• ISBN-10: 0739142062
• Artikelnr.: 34441721

Autorenporträt

David Lewis Schaefer is professor of political science at College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA.  

Inhaltsangabe

Editor's Introduction Part One: Democratic Statesmanship Chapter 1:
Democratic Leadership William Galston Chapter 2: The Political Morality of
Constitutional Opportunism Peter McNamara Part Two: How Far Does Democracy
Require Limits? Chapter 3: American Innovations in Democratic
Decision-Making Leslie Friedman Goldstein Chapter 4: In Defense of
Democracy: Anti-Democratic Sentiment and Democratic Deliberation from
Ancient Athens to the American Founding Dustin A. Gish Part Three:
"Deliberative" Democracy? Chapter 5: "Deliberative Democracy": The
Transformation of a Political Concept David Lewis Schaefer Chapter 6:
Democracy by Constraint: The Ideal of Deliberative Democracy in the Light
of Rousseau Daniel Cullen Part Four: Informal Modes of Democratic
Decision-Making Chapter 7: "This Is an Awful Serious Proposition": George
Washington Plunkitt in the Context of Nineteenth-Century Party
Nationalization Daniel Klinghard Chapter 8: Habitat Conservation Plans:
Redesigning Development Through Collaborative Negotiations Nancy Jimeno
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