Author: Edward G. McGrathPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Is American Democracy Exportable?
Author: Edward G. McGrathPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Is Democracy Exportable?
Author: Zoltan BaranyPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139480286
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 317
Book Description
Can democratic states transplant the seeds of democracy into developing countries? What have political thinkers going back to the Greek city-states thought about their capacity to promote democracy? How can democracy be established in divided societies? This books answers these and other fundamental questions behind the concept known as 'democracy promotion.' Following an illuminating concise discussion of what political philosophers from Plato to Montesquieu thought about the issue, the authors explore the structural preconditions (culture, divided societies, civil society) as well as the institutions and processes of democracy building (constitutions, elections, security sector reform, conflict, and trade). Along the way they share insights about what policies have worked, which ones need to be improved or discarded, and, more generally, what advanced democracies can do to further the cause of democratization in a globalizing world. In other words, they seek answers to the question, Is democracy exportable?
America's Deadliest Export
Author: William BlumPublisher:
ISBN: 9781350218437
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Since World War II we have been conditioned to believe that America's motives in 'exporting' democracy are honorable, even noble. In this startling and provocative book, William Blum, a leading dissident chronicler of US foreign policy and the author of controversial bestseller Rogue State, argues that nothing could be further from the truth. Moreover, until people understand fully the worldwide suffering American policy has caused, we will never be able to stop the monster.
American - Type Democracy
Author: Wilfred C. WashcoeIs American Democracy Exportable?
Author: Edward G. McGrathPublisher: Beverly Hills [Calif.] : Glencoe Press
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 174
Book Description
Exporting "made-in-America" Democracy
Author: Colin S. CavellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Exporting 'Made In America' Democracy examines the various contradictory tensions that democracy-promotion produces in the context of an increasingly capitalist globalization of the world that has accelerated in the post-Cold War period and into the 21st century.
The National Endowment for Democracy and the Export of "made-in-America" Democracy
Author: Colin S. CavellPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Christianity and American Democracy
Author: Hugh HecloPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674027051
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Exploring the tension at the heart of America’s culture wars, this is “a very fine book on a very important subject” (Mark A. Noll, author of The Civil War as a Theological Crisis). Christianity, not religion in general, has been important for American democracy. With this bold thesis, Hugh Heclo offers a panoramic view of how Christianity and democracy have shaped each other. Heclo shows that amid deeply felt religious differences, a Protestant colonial society gradually convinced itself of the truly Christian reasons for, as well as the enlightened political advantages of, religious liberty. By the mid-twentieth century, American democracy and Christianity appeared locked in a mutual embrace. But it was a problematic union vulnerable to fundamental challenge in the Sixties. Despite the subsequent rise of the religious right and glib talk of a conservative Republican theocracy, Heclo sees a longer-term, reciprocal estrangement between Christianity and American democracy. Responding to his challenging argument, Mary Jo Bane, Michael Kazin, and Alan Wolfe criticize, qualify, and amend it. Heclo’s rejoinder suggests why both secularists and Christians should worry about a coming rupture between the Christian and democratic faiths. The result is a lively debate about a momentous tension in American public life.
After War
Author: Christopher J. CoynePublisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804754392
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
Post-conflict reconstruction is one of the most pressing political issues today. This book uses economics to analyze critically the incentives and constraints faced by various actors involved in reconstruction efforts. Through this analysis, the book will aid in understanding why some reconstructions are more successful than others.
American Democracy Promotion
Author: Michael CoxPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191522775
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Why does the United States promote democracy? How successful has it been? And why do critics often attack it for doing so? These are at least three of the questions examined in this wide-ranging discussion of American efforts to recast the international order in its own political image. The answers provided by a distinguished group of analysts are as diverse as they are challenging to traditional ways of thinking about US democracy promotion in terms of either a misconstrued moralism or an ideological facade masking some deeper, more sinister purpose. As we enter into the Twenty First century with American hegemony intact, it is vital to understand what drives the world's last remaining superpower. And this original study helps us do precisely that by exploring in detail and depth one of the more contentious, least analysed and most misunderstood aspects of American foreign policy.