Arend Lijphart

Thinking about Democracy (eBook, PDF)

Power Sharing and Majority Rule in Theory and Practice

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Produktbeschreibung

Arend Lijphart is one of the world's leading and most influential political scientists whose work has had a profound impact on the study of democracy and comparative politics. Thinking about Democracy draws on a lifetime's experience of research and publication in this area and collects together for the first time his most significant and influential work. The book also contains an entirely new introduction and conclusion where Professor Lijphart assesses the development of his thought and the practical impact it has had on emerging democracies. This volume will be of enormous interest to all students and scholars of democracy and comparative politics, and politics and international relations in general.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 305
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135980306
• Artikelnr.: 42983990

Autorenporträt

Lijphart, Arend

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Introduction 1. Developments in Power-Sharing Theory and Practice Part 2: Consociational and Consensus Democracy 2. "Consociational Democracy
" World Politics
January 1969 3. "The Puzzle of Indian Democracy: A Consociational Interpretation
" American Political Science Review
June 1996 4. "Constitutional Design for Divided Societies
" Journal of Democracy
April 2004 5. "Self-Determination Versus Pre-Determination of Ethnic Minorities in Power-Sharing Systems" in David Schneiderman
ed.
Language and the State: The Laws and Politaics of Identity
Cowansville
Quebec: Éditions Yvon Blais
1991 6. "The Quality of Democracy: Consensus Democracy Makes a Difference
" Chapter 16 of Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty-Six Countries
New Haven: Yale University Press
1999 Part 3: Majority Rule 7. "Majority Rule in Theory and Practice: The Tenacity of a Flawed Paradigm
" International Social Science Journal
" August 1991 8. "Back to Democratic Basics: Who Really Practices Majority Rule?"
in Axel Hadenius
ed.
Democracy's Victory and Crisis
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
1997 Part 4: Presidential vs. Parliamentary Government 9. "Presidentialism and Majoritarian Democracy: Theoretical Observations
" in Juan J. Linz and Arturo Valenzuela
eds.
The Failure of Presidential Democracy
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
1994. 10. "Europe
the European Union
and Democracy
" NIAS Newsletter
Spring 2002 Part 5: Proportional vs. Majoritarian Election Systems 11. "Constitutional Choices for New Democracies
" Journal of Democracy
Winter 1991 12. "Double-Checking the Evidence
" Journal of Democracy
Summer 1991 13. "The Alternative Vote: A Realistic Alternative for South Africa?"
Politikon
June 1991 14. "Electoral Engineering: Limits and Possibilities
" Chapter 7 of Electoral Systems and Party Systems: A Study of Twenty-Seven Democracies
1945-1990
Oxford: Oxford University Press
1994 Part 6: Conceptual Links to the Fields of Political Behavior
Foreign Policy
and Comparative Methodology 15. "Unequal Participation: Democracy's Unresolved Dilemma
" American Political Science Review
March 1997 16. "Types of Democracy and Generosity with Foreign Aid: An Indirect Test of the Democratic Peace Proposition" (with Peter J. Bowman)
in Erik Beukel
Kurt Klaudi Klausen
and Poul Erik Mouritzen
eds.
Elites
Parties and Democracy
Odense
Denmark: Odense University Press
1999 17. "Comparative Politics and the Comparative Method
" American Political Science Review
September 1971 Part 7: Conclusion 18. Conclusions: Power-Sharing and the Future of Democracy Part 8: Bibliography