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Author: Geneviève Rousselière
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-04-25
Total Pages: 309
ISBN-13: 1316517551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExplores how republican political thought can make a constructive and distinctive contribution to our understanding of democracy and the challenges it faces.
Author: Andreas Niederberger
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 2015-04-20
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0748677615
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the relationship between democracy and republicanism, and its consequences, and articulates new theoretical insights into connections between liberty, law and democratic politics. Contributors include Philip Pettit, John Ferejohn, Raine
Author: Karl Kautsky
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-10-01
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 900439284X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOnce deemed ‘the pope of Marxism’, Karl Kautsky (1854–1938) was the leading theoretician of the German Social Democratic Party and one of the most prominent public intellectuals of his time. However, during the twentieth century a constellation of historical factors ensured that his ideas were gradually consigned to near oblivion. Not only has his political thought been dismissed in non-Marxist historical and political discourse, but his ideas are equally discredited in Marxist circles. This book aims to rekindle interest in Kautsky’s ideas by exploring his democratic-republican understanding of state and society. It demonstrates how Kautsky’s republican thought was positively influenced by Marx and Engels – especially in relation to the lessons they drew from the experience of the Paris Commune. Listen to Ben Lewis discuss the book on [this podcast] by LINKSE HOBBY.
Author: Bernard Crick
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2002-10-10
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 0191577650
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo political concept is more used, and misused, than that of democracy. Nearly every regime today claims to be democratic, but not all 'democracies' allow free politics, and free politics existed long before democratic franchises. This book is a short account of the history of the doctrine and practice of democracy, from ancient Greece and Rome through the American, French, and Russian revolutions, and of the usages and practices associated with it in the modern world. It argues that democracy is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for good government, and that ideas of the rule of law, and of human rights, should in some situations limit democratic claims. ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.
Author: Gerald Leonard
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-01-31
Total Pages: 259
ISBN-13: 1107024161
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides a compelling account of early American constitutionalism in the Founding era.
Author: David L. Hanley
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781571813374
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAccording to received wisdom parties have played a mainly destructive role in French political development. Of questionable legitimacy, pursuing narrow sectarian goals, often corruptly, they have brought about division, weakness and the collapse of regimes. A proper reading of history suggests differently. By combining historical research and contemporary political science theory about party, the author shows that for over a century party has irrigated French democracy in often invisible ways, brokering working compromises between groups divided strongly along social, political and cultural lines. The key to this success is the party system, which allowed for a high degree of collusion and cooptation between political elites, rhetoric notwithstanding. This hidden logic has persisted to this day despite the advent of presidentialism and remains the key to the continuing prosperity of French democracy.
Author: Richard Bellamy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-01-31
Total Pages: 265
ISBN-13: 1107022282
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the democratic legitimacy of international organisations from a republican perspective, diagnoses the EU as suffering from a democratic disconnect and offers 'demoicracy' as the cure.
Author: Sandra M. Gustafson
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2011-05-30
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 0226311295
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDeliberation, in recent years, has emerged as a form of civic engagement worth reclaiming. In this persuasive book, Sandra M. Gustafson combines historical literary analysis and political theory in order to demonstrate that current democratic practices of deliberation are rooted in the civic rhetoric that flourished in the early American republic. Though the U.S. Constitution made deliberation central to republican self-governance, the ethical emphasis on group deliberation often conflicted with the rhetorical focus on persuasive speech. From Alexis de Tocqueville’s ideas about the deliberative basis of American democracy through the works of Walt Whitman, John Dewey, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr., Gustafson shows how writers and speakers have made the aesthetic and political possibilities of deliberation central to their autobiographies, manifestos, novels, and orations. Examining seven key writers from the early American republic—including James Fenimore Cooper, David Crockett, and Daniel Webster—whose works of deliberative imagination explored the intersections of style and democratic substance, Gustafson offers a mode of historical and textual analysis that displays the wide range of resources imaginative language can contribute to political life.
Author: Geoffrey C. Kellow
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2016-01-01
Total Pages: 347
ISBN-13: 1442637498
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOn Civic Republicanism explores the enduring relevance of the ancient concepts of republicanism and civic virtue to modern questions about political engagement and identity."
Author: Jacob S. Hacker
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 348
ISBN-13: 030013066X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Republicans who run American government today have defied the normal laws of political gravity. They have ruled with the slimmest of majorities and yet have transformed the nation’s governing priorities. They have strayed dramatically from the moderate middle of public opinion and yet have faced little public backlash. Again and again, they have sided with the affluent and ideologically extreme while paying little heed to the broad majority of Americans. And much more often than not, they have come out on top. This book shows why—and why this troubling state of affairs can and must be changed. Written in a highly accessible style by two professional political scientists, Off Center tells the story of a deliberative process restricted and distorted by party chieftains, of unresponsive power brokers subverting the popular will, and of legislation written by and for powerful interests and deliberately designed to mute popular discontent. In the best tradition of engaged social science, Off Center is a powerful and informed critique that points the way toward a stronger foundation for American democracy.
