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Author: Paromita Sanyal
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 229
ISBN-13: 1107019745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStudies citizens' deliberation on governance and development in Indian democracy, and the influence of state policy and literacy, analysing three hundred village assemblies. This title is also available as Open Access.
Author: Daniel O. Prosterman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 2013-02-14
Total Pages: 289
ISBN-13: 0195377737
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDefining Democracy reveals the history of a little-known experiment in urban democracy begun in New York City during the Great Depression and abolished amid the early Cold War. For a decade, New Yorkers utilized a new voting system that produced the most diverse legislatures in the city's history and challenged the American two-party structure. Daniel O. Prosterman examines struggles over electoral reform in New York City to clarify our understanding of democracy's evolution in the United States and the world.
Author: Frederic Charles Schaffer
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-08-06
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 1501718398
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrederic C. Schaffer challenges the assumption often made by American scholars that democracy has been achieved in foreign countries when criteria such as free elections are met. Elections, he argues, often have cultural underpinnings that are invisible to outsiders. To examine grassroots understandings of democratic institutions and political concepts, Schaffer conducted fieldwork in Senegal, a mostly Islamic and agrarian country with a long history of electoral politics. Schaffer discovered that ideas of "demokaraasi" held by Wolof-speakers often reflect concerns about collective security. Many Senegalese see voting as less a matter of choosing leaders than of reinforcing community ties that may be called upon in times of crisis.By looking carefully at language, Schaffer demonstrates that institutional arrangements do not necessarily carry the same meaning in different cultural contexts. Democracy in Translation asks how social scientists should investigate the functioning of democratic institutions in cultures dissimilar from their own, and raises larger issues about the nature of democracy, the universality of democratic ideals, and the practice of cross-cultural research.
Author: Paromita Sanyal
Publisher:
Published: 2017
Total Pages: 56
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn democracies, innovative political institutions have opened up scope for direct public participation often in the form of talk: citizens talking to the state and mutual talk among citizens on matters concerning community development. A prominent example is the Indian gram sabha, or village assembly, which occurs in a highly stratified context. This paper undertakes a talk-centered analysis of the gram sabha with a focus on examining the oral participation of women in general and women affiliated with microcredit self-help groups who have access to an associational life. The qualitative analysis of 255 gram sabha transcripts from four South Indian states finds that women associated with microcredit self-help groups employ a wider variety of narrative styles and utilize a more multilayered structure to convey their messages compared with all women taken together. Thus, the difference is not so much in the numerical instances of talking or in the types of issues raised, but rather in the quality of participation. The paper makes an important theoretical contribution by proposing the concept of oral democracy as an alternative to deliberative democracy, and urges an analytical focus on the oral or oratory competency of subordinated groups as they participate in these important institutions.
Author: André Bächtiger
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-08-23
Total Pages: 1054
ISBN-13: 0191064572
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeliberative democracy has been one of the main games in contemporary political theory for two decades, growing enormously in size and importance in political science and many other disciplines. The Oxford Handbook of Deliberative Democracy takes stock of deliberative democracy as a research field, in philosophy, in various research programmes in the social sciences and law, and in political practice around the globe. It provides a concise history of deliberative ideals in political thought and discusses their philosophical origins. The Handbook locates deliberation in political systems with different spaces, publics, and venues, including parliaments, courts, governance networks, protests, mini-publics, old and new media, and everyday talk. It engages with practical applications, mapping deliberation as a reform movement and as a device for conflict resolution, documenting the practice and study of deliberative democracy around the world and in global governance.
Author: Joshua Block
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 145
ISBN-13: 0807764167
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book shares a vision of project-based learning that is rooted in systemic understandings of social change and provides a pragmatic framework and tools for teachers to develop their practice in creative and sustaining ways. It demonstrates how to support different learners to produce intellectually rigorous and creative work by centering students' lives and experiences and offers the realistic perspective of a teacher working in an urban public high school. The text includes many classroom scenes and examples of curriculum design strategies"--
Author: Fouad Sabry
Publisher: One Billion Knowledgeable
Published: 2024-08-11
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover the transformative potential of democratic governance with *Deliberative Democracy*, a pivotal entry in the *Political Science* series. This book explores the core principles of deliberative democracy—dialogue, reasoned debate, and collective decision-making—and examines how these practices can enhance democratic governance and public engagement. Chapters Overview: 1. Deliberative Democracy: Foundations of reasoned debate and collective decision-making. 2. Direct Democracy: Intersection of direct voting and deliberative processes. 3. Participatory Democracy: Enhancing citizen involvement in policy-making. 4. Deliberative Opinion Poll: Gathering informed public opinions. 5. James S. Fishkin: Contributions of a key figure in deliberative democracy. 6. Sortition: Selecting representatives by lottery for fairness. 7. Citizens' Assembly: Role and effectiveness in public engagement. 8. Online Deliberation: Potential and challenges of digital democratic tools. 9. Jane Mansbridge: Influential theories in deliberative democracy. 10. Epistemic Democracy: Knowledge and reason in decision-making. 11. Anticipatory Exclusion: Impact of exclusion on democratic outcomes. 12. Radical Democracy: Challenging traditional democratic structures. 13. John Dryzek: Key theories and contributions. 14. Jane Mansbridge Bibliography: Comprehensive resource for further research. 15. Cristina Lafont: Relevance of her ideas to contemporary debates. 16. John Gastil: Overview of influential research. 17. Deliberative Referendum: Improving decision-making through deliberation. 18. Hélène Landemore: Impact of her innovative ideas. 19. Oral Democracy: Face-to-face communication in deliberative processes. 20. America in One Room: Assessing a major deliberative democracy project. 21. Global Assembly: Addressing global issues through deliberative governance. *Deliberative Democracy* provides essential insights into the practices that can transform democratic systems, making it a valuable addition to any collection.
Author: Paromita Sanyal
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 54
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn democracies, innovative political institutions have opened up scope for direct public participation often in the form of talk: citizens talking to the state and mutual talk among citizens on matters concerning community development. A prominent example is the Indian gram sabha, or village assembly, which occurs in a highly stratified context. This paper undertakes a talk-centered analysis of the gram sabha with a focus on examining the oral participation of women in general and women affiliated with microcredit self-help groups who have access to an associational life. The qualitative analysis of 255 gram sabha transcripts from four South Indian states finds that women associated with microcredit self-help groups employ a wider variety of narrative styles and utilize a more multilayered structure to convey their messages compared with all women taken together. Thus, the difference is not so much in the numerical instances of talking or in the types of issues raised, but rather in the quality of participation. The paper makes an important theoretical contribution by proposing the concept of oral democracy as an alternative to deliberative democracy, and urges an analytical focus on the oral or oratory competency of subordinated groups as they participate in these important institutions.
Author: Omobolade Delano-Oriaran
Publisher: Information Science Reference
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781522529002
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This book explores the current efforts in service-learning to engage with diverse communities, specific issues and strengths associated with those communities, and strategies for assessing and reflecting on service-learning efforts. The chapters contribute to more mindful service-learning efforts and therefore more impactful experiences for constituents who engage in it"--
Author: A. Ricardo López-Pedreros
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2019-03-28
Total Pages: 211
ISBN-13: 1478003294
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn Makers of Democracy A. Ricardo López-Pedreros traces the ways in which a thriving middle class was understood to be a foundational marker of democracy in Colombia during the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide array of sources ranging from training manuals and oral histories to school and business archives, López-Pedreros shows how the Colombian middle class created a model of democracy based on free-market ideologies, private property rights, material inequality, and an emphasis on a masculine work culture. This model, which naturalized class and gender hierarchies, provided the groundwork for Colombia's later adoption of neoliberalism and inspired the emergence of alternate models of democracy and social hierarchies in the 1960s and 1970s that helped foment political radicalization. By highlighting the contested relationships between class, gender, economics, and politics, López-Pedreros theorizes democracy as a historically unstable practice that exacerbated multiple forms of domination, thereby prompting a rethinking of the formation of democracies throughout the Americas.
