Democracy, Consensus and the New States
Author : Association internationale de science politique. 7e congrès mondial, Bruxelles
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Page : 16 pages
File Size : 38,83 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Association internationale de science politique. 7e congrès mondial, Bruxelles
Publisher :
Page : 16 pages
File Size : 38,83 MB
Release : 1967
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Author : Arend Lijphart
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 47,10 MB
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0300189125
Examining 36 democracies from 1945 to 2010, this text arrives at conclusions about what type of democracy works best. It demonstrates that consensual systems stimulate economic growth, control inflation and unemployment, and limit budget deficits.
Author : Arend Lijphart
Publisher :
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 19,87 MB
Release : 1984-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300031829
There is more than one way to run a successful democracy. Lijphart divides these democracies into two basic models: majoritarian democracies, in which the majority rules, and consensus democracies, in which deep divisions in the society have prompted restraints on majority rule. This book is the broadest and most thorough comparative study of democratic regimes available and will be especially suitable for course use.
Author : Brian W. Firth
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 25,14 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN :
Ratification of the Constitution annihilated one Congress and created another. It also established that the States had a right to exist, and a right to abolish the Congress, the President, the Supreme Court. Nevertheless, for almost two centuries -conservatives- (first Federalists and then Republicans) have been telling us that the Congress is equal to the State legislatures, the U.S. courts to those of the States. And indeed they must be believed, if it is true that the U.S. judges have the authority of the judges or commissioners of the court of the Continental Congress, viz. to decide by majority. If Congress can act without the judges being agreed, then it can act without the States being agreed. There are, however, three grounds for rejecting this position. First, the historical record. Second, the evidence of the Constitution itself. Third, the fact that no (reasonable) man could hold the law to be so."
Author : Murray Clark Havens
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 18,94 MB
Release : 2014-07-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0292768850
Threats to American unity are not unique to modern times. In the 1960s, the assassination of President Kennedy, the tension of racial strife, the political extremes of the Radical Right with its John Birchers and the Radical Left with its threat of Communism all raised critically urgent questions relative to our national unity, to our political stability, and to our vaunted respect for the rule of law. The Challenges to Democracy is an assessment of the foundations of political unity in the United States. The American consensus, as Murray Clark Havens defines it, emphasizes a set of values and procedures that most Americans, since the adoption of the Constitution, have accepted in principle: religious tolerance, individual freedom in intellectual and cultural matters, the importance of education and intellectual effort, settlement of internal conflict through peaceful and political processes, the supremacy of law, a high and generally rising standard of living, and, since the Civil War, racial compatibility. Never in our history have the ideals of this consensus been fully achieved, but as long as the majority of our citizens accept the validity of those ideals and the democratic procedures for realizing them, the basic American political unity is not threatened. However, when citizens who cannot accept the elements of the American consensus become influential enough to block the democratic process, then that consensus is threatened. Havens shows how such threats have come to us all through our history—the Civil War, racial and religious bigotry, the Ku Klux Klan, Huey Long, Father Coughlin and other extremists of the desperate thirties, McCarthyism. He discusses contemporary dangers to American unity such as those connected with the acceptance of the African American, religious friction in politics and government, the Radical Right and the Radical Left, and our foreign policy as an expression of the American consensus. The broad conclusions of this study are that our national unity is continuously in jeopardy, with frequent recurrences of serious questions as to the permanence of some of the patterns we have always associated with American government, but that our democracy is possessed of considerable potential for survival because of our deep national commitment to democracy and because of our even deeper nationalism.
Author : Karl Von Vorys
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 48,63 MB
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400871611
Since World War II the democratic systems adopted by states emerging from colonial rule have in some cases been abandoned and in others suspended or transformed. Two questions arise: Can democracy succeed in newly independent states dominated by communal cleavages? If so, what adjustments are necessary in Western models of democracy? Karl von Vorys contributes new answers by examining the political development of Malaysia, a country which has experimented with changes in the democratic model. He surveys the conditions under which democracy was established in Malaysia, considering the compromises made with communal groups. Particular attention is paid to the reconstruction of the political system after the race riots of May 1969, which the author observed at first hand. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Author : Thomas Denk
Publisher : Springer
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 25,88 MB
Release : 2018-07-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 3319917498
This book examines the connection between two major developments in the world: state-formation and democratization. Since 1946, the number of states has increased from 66 to almost 200 independent states, but our knowledge of these state-formation processes is limited. The authors present a new database on state-formation and democratization, which enables novel classifications and analyses of these processes on the global level. They argue that the form of state-formation affects the probability for democratization in new states and that the initial regime that state-formation establishes at the time of independence has long-term effects on new states’ democratization.
Author : Wolf Linder
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 11,61 MB
Release : 2010-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230231894
An updated third edition of this authoriative analysis of Swiss democracy, the institutions of federalism, and consensus democracy through political power sharing. Linder analyses the scope and limits of citizen's participation in direct democracy, which distinguishes Switzerland from most parliamentary systems.
Author : Thomas Carothers
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 45,92 MB
Release : 2019-09-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 081573722X
“A must-read for anyone concerned about the fate of contemporary democracies.”—Steven Levitsky, co-author of How Democracies Die 2020 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Why divisions have deepened and what can be done to heal them As one part of the global democratic recession, severe political polarization is increasingly afflicting old and new democracies alike, producing the erosion of democratic norms and rising societal anger. This volume is the first book-length comparative analysis of this troubling global phenomenon, offering in-depth case studies of countries as wide-ranging and important as Brazil, India, Kenya, Poland, Turkey, and the United States. The case study authors are a diverse group of country and regional experts, each with deep local knowledge and experience. Democracies Divided identifies and examines the fissures that are dividing societies and the factors bringing polarization to a boil. In nearly every case under study, political entrepreneurs have exploited and exacerbated long-simmering divisions for their own purposes—in the process undermining the prospects for democratic consensus and productive governance. But this book is not simply a diagnosis of what has gone wrong. Each case study discusses actions that concerned citizens and organizations are taking to counter polarizing forces, whether through reforms to political parties, institutions, or the media. The book’s editors distill from the case studies a range of possible ways for restoring consensus and defeating polarization in the world’s democracies. Timely, rigorous, and accessible, this book is of compelling interest to civic activists, political actors, scholars, and ordinary citizens in societies beset by increasingly rancorous partisanship.
Author : James Piereson
Publisher : Encounter Books
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 18,84 MB
Release : 2016-11-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1594038961
The United States has been shaped by three sweeping political revolutions: Jefferson’s “revolution of 1800,” the Civil War, and the New Deal. Each of these upheavals concluded with lasting institutional and cultural adjustments that set the stage for a new phase of political and economic development. Are we on the verge of another upheaval, a “fourth revolution” that will reshape U.S. politics for decades to come? There are signs to suggest that we are. James Piereson describes the inevitable political turmoil that will overtake the United States in the next decade as a consequence of economic stagnation, the unsustainable growth of government, and the exhaustion of postwar arrangements that formerly underpinned American prosperity and power. The challenges of public debt, the retirement of the “baby boom” generation, and slow economic growth have reached a point where they require profound changes in the role of government in American life. At the same time, the widening gulf between the two political parties and the entrenched power of interest groups will make it difficult to negotiate the changes needed to renew the system. Shattered Consensus places this impending upheaval in historical context, reminding readers that Americans have faced and overcome similar trials in the past, in relatively brief but intense periods of political conflict. While others claim that the United States is in decline, Piereson argues that Americans will rise to the challenge of forming a new governing coalition that can guide the nation on a path of dynamism and prosperity.