- The Institutions of Liberal Democratic States.
JA66 2004-275950 1-55111-700-2 The institutions of liberal democratic states. Eagles, Munroe et al. Broadview Press, [c]2004 143 p. $12.95 (pa) This undergraduate supplement compares presidential and parliamentary systems of government, such as those......
- Democracy's failures. (Letters).
SIR: Ronald Conway's wide-ranging criticism (March 2002) of the shortcomings of democracy are not new and were described by de Tocqueville and many others. Few of the framers of the American Constitution were for a democratic government; rather the question ......
- The State of Democratic Theory.
The State of Democratic Theory Ian Shapiro Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2003, 183 pp. Ian Shapiro, a political science professor at Yale, is one of the leaders of an emerging literature that combines insights from political theory and empirical ......
- Coercion vs. cooperation.
The Unconquerable World: Power, Nonviolence, and the Will of the People, by Jonathan Schell. Metropolitan Books. Jonathan Schell, author of such highly acclaimed books as The Fate of the Earth and The Gift of Time, has now written perhaps his ......
- SURVIVING THE ODDS.
If Yemen's ambitious development plans are successful the country, recognised as the poorest of the Arab states, could witness a dramatic change of future. Yemen, the poorest of the Arab states, is currently experiencing an ambitious programme of structural adjustment ......
- Triangulating Peace: Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations. (Book Reviews).
Bruce Russett and John R. Oneal New York and London: W.W. Norton and Company. 2001 393 pp., $22.05 This book examines the significance of democracy, interdpendence, and international organizations in maintaining global peace. More specifically, in Chapters 1-3 the authors ......
- Democracy is threatened by worship of elitism.
"We have entered on Orwellian era wherein entitlement replaces responsibility; coercion is described as compassion; compulsory redistribution is called sharing; race quotas substitute for diversity; and suicide is prescribed as `death with dignity.'" Do unto others as you would have ......
- Democracy, diversity, and boundaries.
Culture and Equality: An Egalitarian Critique of Multiculturalism, Brian Barry (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2001), 416 pp., $36.95 cloth. Democracy and the Foreigner, Bonnie Honig (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), 216 pp., $24.95 cloth. Politics in the Vernacular: Nationalism, Multiculturalism, ......
- What Democracy Is For: On Freedom and Moral Government.
What Democracy Is For: On Freedom and Moral Government Stein Ringen Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007, 334 pp. In common usage, democracy means roughly any state of affairs approved by the speaker. Given that tendency toward vagueness, any writing on ......
- Rethinking democracy: the end of democratic transitions?
ABSTRACT The literature on democratic transitions and consolidations is struggling to properly understand a growing number of regimes that fail to conform to existing typologies. These regimes lie within a grey zone between the black and white dichotomy of authoritarianism ......
- Rescuing endangered peoples: missed opportunities.
I Recently wrote that "the new world order should emphasize collective responsibility and mutual cooperation and should lay the groundwork for an objective basis on which potential ethnopolitical conflicts and humanitarian crises can be settled in a manner that would ......
- Manifesto of hope.
The Universal Hunger for Liberty: Why the Clash of Civilizations Is Not Inevitable, by Michael Novak (Basic, 281 pp., $26) MICHAEL NOVAK is one of American conservatism's leading voices in debates over culture, religion, and democracy at home and abroad....
- De facto legitimacy and popular will.
1. Introduction While the term "legitimacy" is widely used in political theorizing, there is a diversity of views concerning the nature of legitimacy and the proper conditions of the concept's attribution. There are two broad ways in which the nature ......
- Saints or communists? The threat to non-government organisations in Australia represents a threat to our national democracy.
When I feed the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist. Dom Helder Camara, Archbishop of Recife, Brazil NGOs and Democracy Non-government organisations (NGOs) have been embedded ......
- The Best States: Beyond the Territorial Fallacy.
I. Questions and Assumptions THE HISTORY OF POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY consists to a large extent of attempts to discover or design the best states. Such proposals presuppose methods or procedures for deciding which states are the best. I examine here a ......
Email this Article
Digg It
del.icio.us