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Author: Alain-G. Gagnon
Publisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Published: 1992-05-15
Total Pages: 461
ISBN-13: 0773573747
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe essays in this volume (22 in English, 5 in French), examine themes important to the late Professor Paltiel, including individual vs. collective rights, constitutional change, lobbying and modern Quebec politics.
Author: Mike Berry
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2021-06-25
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1800370911
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis visionary book seeks to uncover the main barriers to achieving greater social justice in existing twenty-first century capitalism. Developing a comprehensive consequentialist theory of justice applied to today’s global situation, Mike Berry adopts the thesis that, in order to move towards a more just world, the weaknesses of liberal democracy must be overcome through reconstructing robust, resilient social democracies.
Author: John Rawls
Publisher: Seuil
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 385
ISBN-13: 9782020410953
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLes sociétés contemporaines sont pluralistes, elles doivent réussir à faire vivre ensemble des cultures ou des groupes très divers. Comment concevoir un consensus démocratique qui reste respectueux de cette diversité sans être pour autant une simple rencontre d'intérêts divergents ? Quelle base morale commune faut-il pour que s'édifie et s'entretienne la confiance dans la justice des institutions ? Le célèbre auteur du monumental Théorie de la justice (Seuil, 1987) considéré comme la charte philosophique de la démocratie libérale, approfondit ici sa réflexion dans le sens d'une conception politique de la société multiculturelle.
Author: Bruce James Smith
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 325
ISBN-13: 158046923X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA careful study of the political thought of Machiavelli, Hobbes, and Locke, revealing the roots of modern democracy
Author: Danielle Allen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2023-04-28
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 022677709X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Danielle Allen revisits Rawls' landmark A Theory of Justice to make the case that justice, which she defines as the necessary conditions for human flourishing, requires the protection of political equality or the ability of all people who wish to participate in the political process, to do so on an equal footing. She argues that Rawls, and other thinkers in his wake who focused on protection of individuals from intrusion of the state, as well as many economists with their focus on utilitarian approaches to public policy, have neglected political equality which has led to the denial of justice to many in our society. At a time when economic and political inequality have increased dramatically, and political inequality is threatened by efforts to limit the ability of many to engage in the most basic political right, voting, this book could not be timelier. This book builds on Allen's Berlin Lectures on COVID that we just published in arguing that policymaking fails when it excludes whole communities from participation in the political process. This manuscript is based on the Berlin Lectures that Allen originally intended to deliver in 2020. Allen substituted the lectures on policymaking for COVID given the urgency of the pandemic"--
Author: Werner Neff
Publisher:
Published: 2020-08-29
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ISBN-13: 9781649990907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe gifts we inherited from our Founding Fathers are The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, and The Bill of Rights: the guidelines for peacefully living together. They designed the democratic principles, inspired by the experiences of ancient Athens and Rome, based on values and needs, to guide our leaders in good times and in bad. These gifts are the foundation of our country.We seldom speak of the tragic mistakes those who came before us made, knowingly or unknowingly. We suppress the urge to speak of their weaknesses, their wrongdoing, their cruelty, and the deep hurt some of them caused that still impacts us today. We rarely acknowledge the courage it took for the early settlers to cross the Atlantic, to move westward only to find Indian nations, the original owners of this land.I believe it is our loyalty to these old patterns and habits, that we have inherited from others, that keep us stuck today. Some of these ideals no longer serve us. Indeed, these old thought patterns hold us hostage in the past, stuck in entitlement, racism, and inequalities. The time has come to heal these old wounds.RESTORE OUR DEMOCRACY is a reflection on history, the political philosophy, and the current reality, and it takes a raw look at how our unconscious loyalty to the past impacts our society still, today: our thoughts, our speaking, and the actions we take. The book revisits the original principles of Democracy and offers guidelines on their application in life and politics today.
Author: Gabriel Marcella
Publisher: Strategic Studies Institute
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 40
ISBN-13: 1584874163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe 2009 Failed States Index identifies many nations as being in danger of becoming failed states--in fact, two-thirds of the world's states are critical, borderline, or in danger of becoming just that. Failed states do not possess the necessary conditions to have truly sovereign governments that meet the needs of their populations. Colombia garnered a rating of 89 on the 2009 Failed States Index, just below that of Kyrgyzstan. It has experienced conflict for decades and as the author observed, was a 'paradigm for a failing state' in that it was replete with terrorism, kidnapping, murder, corruption, and general lawlessness. But today it is much safer through the imposition of the Rule of Law. The author addresses the rule of law and its impact on Colombia.--Publisher description.
Author: Matt Matravers
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780415592925
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn addressing democracy, equality, and justice together, the book stimulates discussions that go beyond the sometimes increasingly technical and increasingly discrete literatures that now dominate the study of each concept. This book was published as a special issue of Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy.
Author: Adam Przeworski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-07-21
Total Pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780521532662
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book addresses the question of why governments sometimes follow the law and other times choose to evade the law. The traditional answer of jurists has been that laws have an autonomous causal efficacy: law rules when actions follow anterior norms; the relation between laws and actions is one of obedience, obligation, or compliance. Contrary to this conception, the authors defend a positive interpretation where the rule of law results from the strategic choices of relevant actors. Rule of law is just one possible outcome in which political actors process their conflicts using whatever resources they can muster: only when these actors seek to resolve their conflicts by recourse to la, does law rule. What distinguishes 'rule-of-law' as an institutional equilibrium from 'rule-by-law' is the distribution of power. The former emerges when no one group is strong enough to dominate the others and when the many use institutions to promote their interest.
Author: Philippe Van Parijs
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781907301957
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPhilippe Van Parijs is one of the world's leading political philosophers. In this book, he argues that the purpose of democracy should be to promote justice - we need not just democracy (in the sense of unqualified democracy) but a just democracy. Machiavelli and Rawls must be brought together. In a series of provocative and timely essays, he explores what creating such a just democratic political system would involve in order to tackle such issues as intergenerational justice, multiculturalism and linguistic diversity. He illustrates his arguments with examples drawn from the European Unio.
