Author: Karl Von Vorys
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400871611
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Since World War II the democratic systems adopted by states emerging from colonial rule have in some cases been abandoned and in others suspended or transformed. Two questions arise: Can democracy succeed in newly independent states dominated by communal cleavages? If so, what adjustments are necessary in Western models of democracy? Karl von Vorys contributes new answers by examining the political development of Malaysia, a country which has experimented with changes in the democratic model. He surveys the conditions under which democracy was established in Malaysia, considering the compromises made with communal groups. Particular attention is paid to the reconstruction of the political system after the race riots of May 1969, which the author observed at first hand. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Democracy Without Consensus
Author: Karl Von Vorys
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400871611
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Since World War II the democratic systems adopted by states emerging from colonial rule have in some cases been abandoned and in others suspended or transformed. Two questions arise: Can democracy succeed in newly independent states dominated by communal cleavages? If so, what adjustments are necessary in Western models of democracy? Karl von Vorys contributes new answers by examining the political development of Malaysia, a country which has experimented with changes in the democratic model. He surveys the conditions under which democracy was established in Malaysia, considering the compromises made with communal groups. Particular attention is paid to the reconstruction of the political system after the race riots of May 1969, which the author observed at first hand. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400871611
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 460
Book Description
Since World War II the democratic systems adopted by states emerging from colonial rule have in some cases been abandoned and in others suspended or transformed. Two questions arise: Can democracy succeed in newly independent states dominated by communal cleavages? If so, what adjustments are necessary in Western models of democracy? Karl von Vorys contributes new answers by examining the political development of Malaysia, a country which has experimented with changes in the democratic model. He surveys the conditions under which democracy was established in Malaysia, considering the compromises made with communal groups. Particular attention is paid to the reconstruction of the political system after the race riots of May 1969, which the author observed at first hand. Originally published in 1975. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Democracy Without Consensus
Author: Karl Von Vorys
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communalism
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Communalism
Languages : en
Pages : 1142
Book Description
Democracy Without Shortcuts
Author: Cristina Lafont
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198848188
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This book articulates a participatory conception of deliberative democracy that takes the democratic ideal of self-government seriously. It aims to improve citizens' democratic control and vindicate the value of citizens' participation against conceptions that threaten to undermine it. The book critically analyzes deep pluralist, epistocratic, and lottocratic conceptions of democracy. Their defenders propose various institutional ''shortcuts'' to help solve problems of democratic governance such as overcoming disagreements, citizens' political ignorance, or poor-quality deliberation. However, all these shortcut proposals require citizens to blindly defer to actors over whose decisions they cannot exercise control. Implementing such proposals would therefore undermine democracy. Moreover, it seems naive to assume that a community can reach better outcomes 'faster' if it bypasses the beliefs and attitudes of its citizens. Unfortunately, there are no 'shortcuts' to make a community better than its members. The only road to better outcomes is the long, participatory road that is taken when citizens forge a collective will by changing one another's hearts and minds. However difficult the process of justifying political decisions to one another may be, skipping it cannot get us any closer to the democratic ideal. Starting from this conviction, the book defends a conception of democracy ''without shortcuts''. This conception sheds new light on long-standing debates about the proper scope of public reason, the role of religion in politics, and the democratic legitimacy of judicial review. It also proposes new ways to unleash the democratic potential of institutional innovations such as deliberative minipublics.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0198848188
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 279
Book Description
This book articulates a participatory conception of deliberative democracy that takes the democratic ideal of self-government seriously. It aims to improve citizens' democratic control and vindicate the value of citizens' participation against conceptions that threaten to undermine it. The book critically analyzes deep pluralist, epistocratic, and lottocratic conceptions of democracy. Their defenders propose various institutional ''shortcuts'' to help solve problems of democratic governance such as overcoming disagreements, citizens' political ignorance, or poor-quality deliberation. However, all these shortcut proposals require citizens to blindly defer to actors over whose decisions they cannot exercise control. Implementing such proposals would therefore undermine democracy. Moreover, it seems naive to assume that a community can reach better outcomes 'faster' if it bypasses the beliefs and attitudes of its citizens. Unfortunately, there are no 'shortcuts' to make a community better than its members. The only road to better outcomes is the long, participatory road that is taken when citizens forge a collective will by changing one another's hearts and minds. However difficult the process of justifying political decisions to one another may be, skipping it cannot get us any closer to the democratic ideal. Starting from this conviction, the book defends a conception of democracy ''without shortcuts''. This conception sheds new light on long-standing debates about the proper scope of public reason, the role of religion in politics, and the democratic legitimacy of judicial review. It also proposes new ways to unleash the democratic potential of institutional innovations such as deliberative minipublics.
The Challenges to Democracy
Author: Murray Clark Havens
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292768850
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Threats to American unity are not unique to modern times. In the 1960s, the assassination of President Kennedy, the tension of racial strife, the political extremes of the Radical Right with its John Birchers and the Radical Left with its threat of Communism all raised critically urgent questions relative to our national unity, to our political stability, and to our vaunted respect for the rule of law. The Challenges to Democracy is an assessment of the foundations of political unity in the United States. The American consensus, as Murray Clark Havens defines it, emphasizes a set of values and procedures that most Americans, since the adoption of the Constitution, have accepted in principle: religious tolerance, individual freedom in intellectual and cultural matters, the importance of education and intellectual effort, settlement of internal conflict through peaceful and political processes, the supremacy of law, a high and generally rising standard of living, and, since the Civil War, racial compatibility. Never in our history have the ideals of this consensus been fully achieved, but as long as the majority of our citizens accept the validity of those ideals and the democratic procedures for realizing them, the basic American political unity is not threatened. However, when citizens who cannot accept the elements of the American consensus become influential enough to block the democratic process, then that consensus is threatened. Havens shows how such threats have come to us all through our history—the Civil War, racial and religious bigotry, the Ku Klux Klan, Huey Long, Father Coughlin and other extremists of the desperate thirties, McCarthyism. He discusses contemporary dangers to American unity such as those connected with the acceptance of the African American, religious friction in politics and government, the Radical Right and the Radical Left, and our foreign policy as an expression of the American consensus. The broad conclusions of this study are that our national unity is continuously in jeopardy, with frequent recurrences of serious questions as to the permanence of some of the patterns we have always associated with American government, but that our democracy is possessed of considerable potential for survival because of our deep national commitment to democracy and because of our even deeper nationalism.
Publisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 0292768850
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 134
Book Description
Threats to American unity are not unique to modern times. In the 1960s, the assassination of President Kennedy, the tension of racial strife, the political extremes of the Radical Right with its John Birchers and the Radical Left with its threat of Communism all raised critically urgent questions relative to our national unity, to our political stability, and to our vaunted respect for the rule of law. The Challenges to Democracy is an assessment of the foundations of political unity in the United States. The American consensus, as Murray Clark Havens defines it, emphasizes a set of values and procedures that most Americans, since the adoption of the Constitution, have accepted in principle: religious tolerance, individual freedom in intellectual and cultural matters, the importance of education and intellectual effort, settlement of internal conflict through peaceful and political processes, the supremacy of law, a high and generally rising standard of living, and, since the Civil War, racial compatibility. Never in our history have the ideals of this consensus been fully achieved, but as long as the majority of our citizens accept the validity of those ideals and the democratic procedures for realizing them, the basic American political unity is not threatened. However, when citizens who cannot accept the elements of the American consensus become influential enough to block the democratic process, then that consensus is threatened. Havens shows how such threats have come to us all through our history—the Civil War, racial and religious bigotry, the Ku Klux Klan, Huey Long, Father Coughlin and other extremists of the desperate thirties, McCarthyism. He discusses contemporary dangers to American unity such as those connected with the acceptance of the African American, religious friction in politics and government, the Radical Right and the Radical Left, and our foreign policy as an expression of the American consensus. The broad conclusions of this study are that our national unity is continuously in jeopardy, with frequent recurrences of serious questions as to the permanence of some of the patterns we have always associated with American government, but that our democracy is possessed of considerable potential for survival because of our deep national commitment to democracy and because of our even deeper nationalism.
Democracies
Author: Arend Lijphart
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300031829
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
There is more than one way to run a successful democracy. Lijphart divides these democracies into two basic models: majoritarian democracies, in which the majority rules, and consensus democracies, in which deep divisions in the society have prompted restraints on majority rule. This book is the broadest and most thorough comparative study of democratic regimes available and will be especially suitable for course use.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780300031829
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 229
Book Description
There is more than one way to run a successful democracy. Lijphart divides these democracies into two basic models: majoritarian democracies, in which the majority rules, and consensus democracies, in which deep divisions in the society have prompted restraints on majority rule. This book is the broadest and most thorough comparative study of democratic regimes available and will be especially suitable for course use.
Consensus as Democracy in Africa
Author: Bernard Matolino
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 192003336X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Some philosophers on the African continent and beyond are convinced that consensus, as a polity, represents the best chance for Africa to fully democratise. In Consensus as Democracy in Africa, Bernard Matolino challenges the basic assumptions built into consensus as a social and political theory. Central to his challenge to the claimed viability of consensus as a democratic system are three major questions: Is consensus genuinely superior to its majoritarian counterpart? Is consensus itself truly a democratic system? Is consensus sufficiently different from the one-party system? In taking up these issues and others closely associated with them, Matolino shows that consensus as a system of democracy encounters several challenges that make its viability highly doubtful. Matolino then attempts a combination of an understanding of an authentic mode of democracy with African reality to work out what a more desirable polity would be for the continent.
Publisher: African Books Collective
ISBN: 192003336X
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
Some philosophers on the African continent and beyond are convinced that consensus, as a polity, represents the best chance for Africa to fully democratise. In Consensus as Democracy in Africa, Bernard Matolino challenges the basic assumptions built into consensus as a social and political theory. Central to his challenge to the claimed viability of consensus as a democratic system are three major questions: Is consensus genuinely superior to its majoritarian counterpart? Is consensus itself truly a democratic system? Is consensus sufficiently different from the one-party system? In taking up these issues and others closely associated with them, Matolino shows that consensus as a system of democracy encounters several challenges that make its viability highly doubtful. Matolino then attempts a combination of an understanding of an authentic mode of democracy with African reality to work out what a more desirable polity would be for the continent.
Democracy Without Decency
Author: William M. Epstein
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271036338
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
"An analysis of social and economic policies in the United States, with emphasis on the 1960s War on Poverty"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271036338
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
"An analysis of social and economic policies in the United States, with emphasis on the 1960s War on Poverty"--Provided by publisher.
Consensus and Ideology in American Politics
Author: Herbert McClosky
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consensus (Social sciences)
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Consensus (Social sciences)
Languages : en
Pages : 22
Book Description
Open Democracy
Author: Hélène Landemore
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691212392
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
To the ancient Greeks, democracy meant gathering in public and debating laws set by a randomly selected assembly of several hundred citizens. To the Icelandic Vikings, democracy meant meeting every summer in a field to discuss issues until consensus was reached. Our contemporary representative democracies are very different. Modern parliaments are gated and guarded, and it seems as if only certain people are welcome. Diagnosing what is wrong with representative government and aiming to recover some of the openness of ancient democracies, Open Democracy presents a new paradigm of democracy. Supporting a fresh nonelectoral understanding of democratic representation, Hélène Landemore demonstrates that placing ordinary citizens, rather than elites, at the heart of democratic power is not only the true meaning of a government of, by, and for the people, but also feasible and, more than ever, urgently needed. -- Cover page 4.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691212392
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
To the ancient Greeks, democracy meant gathering in public and debating laws set by a randomly selected assembly of several hundred citizens. To the Icelandic Vikings, democracy meant meeting every summer in a field to discuss issues until consensus was reached. Our contemporary representative democracies are very different. Modern parliaments are gated and guarded, and it seems as if only certain people are welcome. Diagnosing what is wrong with representative government and aiming to recover some of the openness of ancient democracies, Open Democracy presents a new paradigm of democracy. Supporting a fresh nonelectoral understanding of democratic representation, Hélène Landemore demonstrates that placing ordinary citizens, rather than elites, at the heart of democratic power is not only the true meaning of a government of, by, and for the people, but also feasible and, more than ever, urgently needed. -- Cover page 4.
Discordant Democrats
Author: Arun Maira
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9780670081226
Category : Consensus (Social sciences)
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Twenty-Two Official Languages, Many Races And Almost All The Major Religions Of The World Could A Diverse Country Like India Have Survived Without Democracy And Consensus? Yet There Are Many Who Believe India S Economic Development Is Hampered By Its Noisy Democracy; Like China, Democracy Should Follow Development, Not Precede It. Indeed, The Belief That Democracy Automatically Reduces Discord Has Recently Been Under Question, Since It Has Been Seen That Democratic Constitutions And Systems For Free And Fair Elections Cannot By Themselves Eliminate Disagreements. In Fact, Democracy Brings To The Surface Latent Differences And Makes Discord More Visible, As Is Evident From The Way It Has Functioned Within India And The Usa, And From More Recent Experiences In Some Countries In The Middle East As Well As Afghanistan, Where Democracy Has Supposedly Been Restored . What Then Is The Best Way Forward? All We Require, Arun Maira Argues In This Book, Is For Democracy To Be Made To Work More Effectively. In Healthy Democracies, Politics Cannot Be Left Merely To Politicians: People At All Levels Must Take Responsibility For Shaping The World. Therefore Democracies Require Widespread Processes For Dialogue, Consensus Building And Collaborative Action Amongst People With Different Perspectives. Weapons Of Mass Destruction Need To Be Replaced With Ways For Mass Dialogue. Discordant Democrats Is A Roadmap To Collaborative Governance By One Of The Finest Thinkers On Transformational Change. With Insights From Research, His Experience In Consensus Building And Collaborative Action, And A Variety Of Examples From India And Elsewhere, The Author Sets Out Five Steps To Build Consensus And Describes The Principles And Tools With Which This Can Be Achieved And Applied By People In Any Walk Of Life.
Publisher: Penguin Books India
ISBN: 9780670081226
Category : Consensus (Social sciences)
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Twenty-Two Official Languages, Many Races And Almost All The Major Religions Of The World Could A Diverse Country Like India Have Survived Without Democracy And Consensus? Yet There Are Many Who Believe India S Economic Development Is Hampered By Its Noisy Democracy; Like China, Democracy Should Follow Development, Not Precede It. Indeed, The Belief That Democracy Automatically Reduces Discord Has Recently Been Under Question, Since It Has Been Seen That Democratic Constitutions And Systems For Free And Fair Elections Cannot By Themselves Eliminate Disagreements. In Fact, Democracy Brings To The Surface Latent Differences And Makes Discord More Visible, As Is Evident From The Way It Has Functioned Within India And The Usa, And From More Recent Experiences In Some Countries In The Middle East As Well As Afghanistan, Where Democracy Has Supposedly Been Restored . What Then Is The Best Way Forward? All We Require, Arun Maira Argues In This Book, Is For Democracy To Be Made To Work More Effectively. In Healthy Democracies, Politics Cannot Be Left Merely To Politicians: People At All Levels Must Take Responsibility For Shaping The World. Therefore Democracies Require Widespread Processes For Dialogue, Consensus Building And Collaborative Action Amongst People With Different Perspectives. Weapons Of Mass Destruction Need To Be Replaced With Ways For Mass Dialogue. Discordant Democrats Is A Roadmap To Collaborative Governance By One Of The Finest Thinkers On Transformational Change. With Insights From Research, His Experience In Consensus Building And Collaborative Action, And A Variety Of Examples From India And Elsewhere, The Author Sets Out Five Steps To Build Consensus And Describes The Principles And Tools With Which This Can Be Achieved And Applied By People In Any Walk Of Life.