Some Social Requisites of Democracy
Author: Seymour M. Lipse
Publisher: Irvington Pub
Published: 1993-08-01
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ISBN-13: 9780829038101
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The First New Nation
Author: Seymour Martin Lipset
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 420
ISBN-13: 1412836840
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe United States was the first major colony to revolt successfully against colonial rule. In this sense, it was the first "new nation." To see how, in the course of American history, its values took shape in institutions may help us to understand some of the problems faced by the new nations emerging today on the world scene. In The First New Nation, two broad themes occupy Seymour Martin Lipset's attention: the social conditions that make a stable democracy possible, and the extent to which the American experience was representative or exceptional. The volume is divided into three parts, each of which deals with the role of values in a nation's evolution, but each approaches this role from a different perspective. Part 1, "America as a New Nation," compares early America with today's emerging nations to discover problems common to them as new nations, and analyzes some of the consequences of a revolutionary birth for the creation of a national character and style. Part 2, "Stability in the Midst of Change," traces how values derived from America's revolutionary origins have continued to influence the form and substance of American institutions. Lipset concentrates on American history in later periods, selecting for discussion as critical cases religious institutions and trade unions. Part 3, "Democracy in Comparative Perspective," attempts to show by comparative analysis some ways through which a nation's values determine its political evolution. It compares political development in several modern industrialized democracies, including the United States, touching upon value patterns, value differences, party systems, and the bases of social cleavage.
The Democratic Century
Author: Seymour Martin Lipset
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 494
ISBN-13: 9780806136189
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this study on democracy and democratic systems, two scholars offer an expansive view of democratic systems and explain why democracy has succeeded in some countries and has failed in others.
Trust in Contemporary Society
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Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2019-07-22
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 900439043X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTrust in Contemporary Society, by well-known trust researchers, deals with conceptual, theoretical and social interaction analyses, historical data on societies, national surveys or cross-national comparative studies, and methodological issues related to trust. The authors are from a variety of disciplines: psychology, sociology, political science, organizational studies, history, and philosophy, and from Britain, the United States, the Czech Republic, the Netherlands, Australia, Germany, and Japan. They bring their vast knowledge from different historical and cultural backgrounds to illuminate contemporary issues of trust and distrust. The socio-cultural perspective of trust is important and increasingly acknowledged as central to trust research. Accordingly, future directions for comparative trust research are also discussed. Contributors include: Jack Barbalet, John Brehm, Geoffrey Hosking, Robert Marsh, Barbara A. Misztal, Guido Möllering, Bart Nooteboom, Ken J. Rotenberg, Jiří Šafr, Masamichi Sasaki, Meg Savel, Markéta Sedláčková, Jörg Sydow, Piotr Sztompka.
Communism, Conformity, and Civil Liberties
Author: Samuel Andrew Stouffer
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 284
ISBN-13: 1412819989
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Political Representation in Liberal Democracies
Author: Robert Rohrschneider
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2020-07-28
Total Pages: 731
ISBN-13: 0192558692
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Handbook of Political Representation in Liberal Democracies offers a state-of-the-art assessment of the functioning of political representation in liberal democracies. In 34 chapters the world's leading scholars on the various aspects of political representation address eight broad themes: The concept and theories of political representation, its history and the main requisites for its development; elite orientations and behavior; descriptive representation; party government and representation; non-electoral forms of political participation and how they relate to political representation; the challenges to representative democracy originating from the growing importance of non-majoritarian institutions and social media; the rise of populism and its consequences for the functioning of representative democracy; the challenge caused by economic and political globlization: what does it mean for the functioning of political representation at the national leval and is it possible to develop institutions of representative democracy at a level above the state that meet the normative criteria of representative democracy and are supported by the people? The various chapters offer a comprehensive review of the literature on the various aspects of political representation. The main organizing principle of the Handbook is the chain of political representation, the chain connecting the interests and policy preferences of the people to public policy via political parties, parliament, and government. Most of the chapters assessing the functioning of the chain of political representation and its various links are based on original comparative political research. Comparative research on political representation and its various subfields has developed dramatically over the last decades so that even ten years ago a Handbook like this would have looked totally different.
Democracy and Development
Author: Adam Przeworski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-08-28
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 9780521793797
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines impact of political regimes on economic development between 1950 and 1990.
Transitions to Democracy
Author: Lisa Anderson
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 1999-09-22
Total Pages: 327
ISBN-13: 0231502478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre the factors that initiate democratization the same as those that maintain a democracy already established? The scholarly and policy debates over this question have never been more urgent. In 1970, Dankwart A. Rustow's clairvoyant article "Transitions to Democracy: Toward a Dynamic Model" questioned the conflation of the primary causes and sustaining conditions of democracy and democratization. Now this collection of essays by distinguished scholars responds to and extends Rustow's classic work, Transitions to Democracy--which originated as a special issue of the journal Comparative Politics and contains three new articles written especially for this volume--represents much of the current state of the large and growing literature on democratization in American political science. The essays simultaneously illustrate the remarkable reach of Rustow's prescient article across the decades and reveal what the intervening years have taught us. In light of the enormous opportunities of the post-Cold War world for the promotion of democratic government in parts of the world once thought hopelessly lost of authoritarian and totalitarian regimes, this timely collection constitutes and important contribution to the debates and efforts to promote the more open, responsive, and accountable government we associate with democracy.
Governance for Peace
Author: David Cortright
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-09-21
Total Pages: 307
ISBN-13: 1108415938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn evidence-based analysis of governance focusing on the institutional capacities and qualities that reduce the risk of armed conflict.
It Didn't Happen Here
Author: Seymour Martin Lipset
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9780393322545
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy socialism has failed to play a significant role in the United States - the most developed capitalist industrial society and hence, ostensibly, fertile ground for socialism - has been a critical question of American history and political development. This study surveys the various explanations for this phenomenon of American political exceptionalism.
