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In: Choosing democracy
In: Occasional Papers, 6
These papers were part of the proceedings of the first national conference organized by IDASA in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, on 8-9 May, 1987
World Affairs Online
In: Global Viewpoints Ser
Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Democracy and Government -- 1. Spain and South Korea Have Significant Challenges in Their Transitions to Full Democracies -- 2. Colombia's Democratization Process Is Hindered by Anti-Narcotics Efforts -- 3. Democracy in Thailand Is Increasingly Under Strain by Internal Forces -- 4. Democratization in the Middle East Is Hindered by Conflict -- 5. Malaysia's Democracy Suffers from Abuses of Power -- 6. Ghana's Elections Provide Lessons for Democratization -- Periodical Bibliography -- Chapter 2: Democracy and Equality -- 1. Only International Pressure Will Prompt Burma to Democratize -- 2. South Africa Must Overcome Institutional Obstacles to Democratic Equality -- 3. Eastern European Equality Advocates Are Decreasing in Numbers and Efficacy -- 4. Israel Struggles to Provide Equality for Minority Groups -- 5. North Korea Ignores Human Rights and Democracy -- Periodical Bibliography -- Chapter 3: Democracy and Economics -- 1. Sri Lanka Faces Economic Implications While Demilitarizing and Expanding Democracy -- 2. India's Political Struggles Undermine Its Middle Class -- 3. Zimbabwe Cannot Fully Democratize Until There Is Equal Distribution of Land and Resources -- 4. Governments Must Maintain Capitalism to Preserve Democracy -- 5. The Persian Gulf States Enjoy Free Market Capitalism Without Democracy -- 6. Malaysia's Citizens Demand Democracy with Development -- Periodical Bibliography -- Chapter 4: Democracy and International Relations -- 1. The United States Should Lead by Example to Promote Democracy Around the World -- 2. Afghanistan Needs Security Before It Can Have Democracy -- 3. Pakistan's Democratic Transition Affects Its Relationship with the West -- 4. Nepal's Democracy Needs Support from the International Community
In: Issues in Political Theory Ser.
Cover -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Preface -- 1 The Theoretical Challenges of Democracy -- Democratic principles and normative methods -- The circumstances of politics -- The definition of democracy -- 2 Forms of Democratic Government -- Institutions, behaviour, social structure -- An institutional typology -- Evaluating forms of government -- 3 The Justification of Democracy -- The protective case for democracy -- From adjudication to democracy -- Democracy and political equality -- Fallibilism -- Common interests and political ideals -- Democracy and consent -- 4 Deliberation, Consensus and Political Equality -- Consensus and deliberation -- Deliberation and fairness -- Institutional dimensions -- 5 Participation as Democracy, Participation in Democracy -- Participation as democracy: autonomy -- Participation as democracy: moral development -- Participation in democracy -- Why not populism? -- 6 From Conceptions of Representation to Systems of Representation -- The concept of representation -- The lottery alternative -- Responsiveness and representation -- Back to social characteristics? -- A system of representation? -- 7 Aggregation, Unanimity and Majority Rule -- The principle of unanimity -- Majority rule: the axiomatic defence -- The spatial defence -- Two dimensions with no Condorcet-winner -- Empirical aspects -- 8 Democracy, Rights and Constitutionalism -- The constitutional basis for popular government -- Rights-based constitutionalism? -- Political rights -- Democracy and civil rights -- Democracy and property rights -- Courts or legislatures? -- 9 The Boundaries of Inclusion -- The problem of qualification -- The problem of partitioning -- Extension beyond persons? -- 10 International Relations and Democratic Ideals -- Dropping one of the claims? -- Democratic values and international concerns.
Overview: Written by the preeminent democratic theorist of our time, this book explains the nature, value, and mechanics of democracy. This new edition includes two additional chapters by Ian Shapiro, Dahl's successor as Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale and a leading contemporary authority on democracy. One chapter deals with the prospects for democracy in light of developments since the advent of the Arab spring in 2010. The other takes up the effects of inequality and money in politics on the quality of democracy, a subject that was of increasing concern to Dahl in his final years.
Democracy identifies the general processes causing democratization and de-democratization at a national level across the world over the last few hundred years. It singles out integration of trust networks into public politics, insulation of public politics from categorical inequality, and suppression of autonomous coercive power centres as crucial processes. Through analytic narratives and comparisons of multiple regimes, mostly since World War II, this book makes the case for recasting current theories of democracy, democratization and de-democratization
Vital Democracy outlines a theory of democracy in action, based on four elementary forms of democracy - pendulum, consensus, voter and participatory democracy - that are thoroughly analysed, compared and related to both the literature and the real world of democracy. Just like a few primary colours produce an array of shades, a few basic models of democracy appear, the author argues, to constitute a wide range of democratic variants in real life.Focusing on tried and tested democratic institutions, Frank Hendriks shows that the four models of democracy - with their divergent patterns of leader