Author: Quintin Hogg Baron Hailsham of St. MarylebonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Elective Dictatorship
Author: Quintin Hogg Baron Hailsham of St. MarylebonePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 28
Book Description
Restraining Elective Dictatorship
Author: Nicholas AroneyPublisher: ISBS
ISBN: 9781921401091
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
"This book contains chapters from twenty-one leading international scholars and politicians on the history, the recent performance, and the future of upper houses of parliament in Australia, Canada, the United States, and the United Kingdom."--Provided by publisher.
The Advent of Elective Dictatorship
Author: Shirley WilliamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authoritarianism
Languages : en
Pages : 24
Book Description
Three Political Systems
Author: Martin BurchPublisher: Manchester University Press
ISBN: 9780719017339
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
How Dictatorships Work
Author: Barbara GeddesPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107115825
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
Explains how dictatorships rise, survive, and fall, along with why some but not all dictators wield vast powers.
The Case Against the Democratic State
Author: Gordon GrahamPublisher: Imprint Academic
ISBN: 9780907845386
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 110
Book Description
We are now so familiar and accepting of the State's pre-eminence in all things that few think to question it, and most suppose that democratic endorsement legitimizes it. The aim of this book is to present a compelling argument against both presumptions.
A Federal Republic
Author: Brian GalliganPublisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521373548
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 304
Book Description
A provocative reassessment of the Australian constitution from the perspective of a political scientist.
Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
Author: Daron AcemogluPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521855266
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 444
Book Description
This book develops a framework for analyzing the creation and consolidation of democracy. Different social groups prefer different political institutions because of the way they allocate political power and resources. Thus democracy is preferred by the majority of citizens, but opposed by elites. Dictatorship nevertheless is not stable when citizens can threaten social disorder and revolution. In response, when the costs of repression are sufficiently high and promises of concessions are not credible, elites may be forced to create democracy. By democratizing, elites credibly transfer political power to the citizens, ensuring social stability. Democracy consolidates when elites do not have strong incentive to overthrow it. These processes depend on (1) the strength of civil society, (2) the structure of political institutions, (3) the nature of political and economic crises, (4) the level of economic inequality, (5) the structure of the economy, and (6) the form and extent of globalization.
Courts and Political Institutions
Author: Thijmen KoopmansPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521533997
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
Considers the relation between law and politics, including human rights, federalism and equal protection.
Permanent State of Emergency
Author: Ryan AlfordPublisher: McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
ISBN: 0773549218
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 333
Book Description
In the wake of the attacks of September 11, 2001, the United States launched initiatives that test the limits of international human rights law. The indefinite detention and torture of detainees at Guantánamo Bay, targeted killing, and mass surveillance require an expansion of executive authority that negates the rule of law. In Permanent State of Emergency, Ryan Alford establishes that the ongoing failure to address human rights abuses is a symptom of the most serious constitutional crisis in American history. Instead of curbing the increase in executive power, Congress and the courts facilitated the breakdown of the nation’s constitutional order and set the stage for presidential supremacy. The presidency, Alford argues, is now more than imperial: it is an elective dictatorship. Providing both an overview and a systematic analysis of the new regime, he objectively demonstrates that it does not meet even the minimum requirements of the rule of law. At this critical juncture in American democracy, Permanent State of Emergency alerts the public to the structural transformation of the state and reiterates the importance of the constitutional limits of the American presidency.