Author : G. Bingham Powell
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 21,83 MB
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780300080162
This text explores elections as instruments of democracy. Focusing on elections in 20 democracies over the last 25 years, it examines the differences between two visions of democracy - the majoritarian vision and the proportional influence vision.
Author : Neophytos Loizides
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 20,46 MB
Release : 2015-09-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804796335
What drives the politics of majority nationalism during crises, stalemates and peace mediations? In his innovative study of majority nationalism, Neophytos Loizides answers this important question by investigating how peacemakers succeed or fail in transforming the language of ethnic nationalism and war. The Politics of Majority Nationalism focuses on the contemporary politics of the 'post-Ottoman neighborhood' to explore conflict management in Greece and Turkey while extending its arguments to Serbia, Georgia and Ukraine. Drawing on systematic coding of parliamentary debates, new datasets and elite interviews, the book analyses and explains the under-emphasized linkages between institutions, symbols, and framing processes that enable or restrict the choice of peace. Emphasizing the constraints societies face when trapped in antagonistic frames, Loizides argues wisely mediated institutional arrangements can allow peacemaking to progress.
Author : Angana P. Chatterji
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 551 pages
File Size : 10,77 MB
Release : 2019
Category : History
ISBN : 0190078170
A trenchant assessment of Narendra Modi's BJP government and its impact on India.
Author : Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 737 pages
File Size : 33,16 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0198803567
The Oxford Handbook of Populism presents the state of the art of research on populism from the perspective of Political Science. The book features work from the leading experts in the field, and synthesizes the main strands of research in four compact sections: concepts, issues, regions, and normative debates. Due to its breath, The Oxford Handbook of Populism is an invaluable resource for those interested in the study of populism, but also forexperts in each of the topics discussed, who will benefit from accounts of current discussions and research gaps, as well as a map of new directions in the study of populism.
Author : James M. Buchanan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 10,60 MB
Release : 2006-11-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521031325
In his treatise, The Constitution of Liberty (1960), F. A. Hayek emphasized the central role of the generality principle, as embodied in the rule of law, for the maintenance of a free society. This book extends Hayek's argument by applying the generality principle to politics. Several important policy implications emerge. There are no direct implications to suggest how much governments should do. The argument suggests strongly however, that, whatever is done politically, must be done generally rather than discriminatorily.
Author : William A. Galston
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 2020-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0300235313
The Great Recession, institutional dysfunction, a growing divide between urban and rural prospects, and failed efforts to effectively address immigration have paved the way for a populist backlash that disrupts the postwar bargain between political elites and citizens. Whether today’s populism represents a corrective to unfair and obsolete policies or a threat to liberal democracy itself remains up for debate. Yet this much is clear: these challenges indict the triumphalism that accompanied liberal democratic consolidation after the collapse of the Soviet Union. To respond to today’s crisis, good leaders must strive for inclusive economic growth while addressing fraught social and cultural issues, including demographic anxiety, with frank attention. Although reforms may stem the populist tide, liberal democratic life will always leave some citizens unsatisfied. This is a permanent source of vulnerability, but liberal democracy will endure so long as citizens believe it is worth fighting for.
Author : Arend Lijphart
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 457 pages
File Size : 45,18 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 : Aakar Patel
Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 23,69 MB
Release : 2022-10-24
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9354927963
India has taken so sharp a turn in recent years that the very centre has shifted considerably. What led to this swing? Is it possible to trace the path to this point? Is there a way back to the just, secular, inclusive vision of our Constitution-makers? This country has long been an outlier in its South Asian neighbourhood, with its inclusive Constitution and functioning democracy. The growth of Hindutva, in some sense, brings India in line with the other polities here. In Our Hindu Rashtra, writer and activist Aakar Patel peels back layer after layer of cause and effect through independent India's history to understand how Hindutva came to gain such a hold on the country. He examines what it means for India that its laws and judiciary have been permeated by prejudice and bigotry, what the breach of fundamental rights portends in these circumstances, and what the all-round institutional collapse signifies for the future of Indians. Most importantly, Patel asks and answers that most important of questions: What possibilities exist for a return? Thought-provoking and pulling no punches, this book is an essential read for anyone who wishes to understand the nature of politics in India and, indeed, South Asia.
Author : Jim McGuigan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 20,94 MB
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1134924100
First Published in 2004. This book provides a novel understanding of current thought and enquiry in the study of popular culture and communications media. The populist sentiments and impulses underlying cultural studies and its postmodernist variants are explored and criticized sympathetically. An exclusively consumptionist trend of analysis is identified and shown to be an unsatisfactory means of accounting for the complex material conditions and mediations that shape ordinary people’s pleasures and opportunities for personal and political expression. Through detailed consideration of the work of Raymond Williams, Stuart Hall and ‘the Birmingham School’, John Fiske, youth subcultural analysis, popular television study, and issues generally concerned with public communication (including advertising, arts and broadcasting policies, children’s television, tabloid journalism, feminism and pornography, the Rushdie affair, and the collapse of communism), Jim McGuigan sets out a distinctive case for recovering critical analysis of popular culture in a rapidly changing, conflict-ridden world. The book is an accessible introduction to past and present debates for undergraduate students, and it poses some challenging theses for postgraduate students, researchers and lecturers.
Author : Alan S. Gerber
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 29,52 MB
Release : 2017-02-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107095093
This volume provides an in-depth examination of representation and legislative performance in contemporary American politics.
