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Democracy : government of the people or government of the politicians? / José Nun.

By: Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Spanish Series: Critical currents in Latin American perspective | Serie Breves (Fondo de Cultura Económica (México))Publication details: Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield, c2003.Description: vii, 151 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0742520390 (alk. paper)
  • 9780742520394 (alk. paper)
  • 0742520404 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 9780742520400 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Uniform titles:
  • Democracia. English
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 321.8
LOC classification:
  • JC 423 N972d 2003
Contents:
Family resemblances -- Athens and Sparta -- Schumpeter and the politicians -- The pluralist theories -- The declaration of 1948 -- Capitalism and democracy : a first approach -- The Keynesian alchemy -- Marshall and the citizens -- From Schumpeter to Marshall -- The experience in the developed capitalist countries -- European transitions to democracy -- Capitalism and democracy : a second approach -- Legitimacy, moral autonomy, and preferences -- From the thirty glorious years to the great recession -- Welfare states in transition -- The problematic of social exclusion -- The Latin American case -- An unhappy balance -- An idea and its concrete manifestations -- Conditional democracy -- Deceiving resemblances.
Summary: Nascent debates about democracy in the contemporary developing world are modified by such descriptions as delegative, incomplete or even authoritarian. Nun provides a comprehensive analysis of the theory and practice of democracy from ancient Greece to contemporary Latin America.
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Libro Libro Biblioteca Juan Bosch Biblioteca Juan Bosch Ciencias Sociales Ciencias Sociales (3er. Piso) JC 423 N972d 2003 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 00000073968

Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-140) and index.

Family resemblances -- Athens and Sparta -- Schumpeter and the politicians -- The pluralist theories -- The declaration of 1948 -- Capitalism and democracy : a first approach -- The Keynesian alchemy -- Marshall and the citizens -- From Schumpeter to Marshall -- The experience in the developed capitalist countries -- European transitions to democracy -- Capitalism and democracy : a second approach -- Legitimacy, moral autonomy, and preferences -- From the thirty glorious years to the great recession -- Welfare states in transition -- The problematic of social exclusion -- The Latin American case -- An unhappy balance -- An idea and its concrete manifestations -- Conditional democracy -- Deceiving resemblances.

Nascent debates about democracy in the contemporary developing world are modified by such descriptions as delegative, incomplete or even authoritarian. Nun provides a comprehensive analysis of the theory and practice of democracy from ancient Greece to contemporary Latin America.

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