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The democracy sourcebook / edited by Robert Dahl, Ian Shapiro, and José Antonio Cheibub.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c2003.Description: xii, 556 p. ; 23 cmISBN:
  • 0262042177 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 9780262042178 (hc : alk. paper)
  • 0262541475 (pbk : alk. paper)
  • 9780262541473 (pbk : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 321.8 21
LOC classification:
  • JC 423 D383 2003
Other classification:
  • 89.35
Incomplete contents:
1. Defining democracy. The social contact / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Capitalism, socialism, and democracy / Joseph Schumpeter -- Minimalist conception of democracy : a defense / Adam Przeworski -- Democracy and disagreement / Amy Gutmann, Dennis Thompson -- The voice of the people / James S. Fishkin -- Defining and developing democracy / Larry Diamond -- Participation and democratic theory / Carole Pateman -- Polyarchal democracy / Robert Dahl -- 2. Sources of democracy. Political man : the social bases of politics / Seymour Martin Lipset -- Social revolutions in the modern world / Theda Skocpol -- The impact of economic development on democracy / Evelyn Huber ... [et al.] -- Democracy and the market : political and economic reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America / Ada, Przeworski -- Democracy's third wave / Samuel P. Huntington -- South Africa's negotiated transition : democracy, opposition, and the new constitutional order / Courtney Jung and Ian Shapiro -- Economic development and political regimes / Adam Przeworski ... [et al.] --
3. Democracy, culture, and society. The Federalist no. 10 ; no. 14 / James Madison -- The concept of a liberal society / Louis Hartz -- Pluralism and social choice / Nicholas R. Miller -- Consociational democracy / Arend Lijphart -- The contest of ideas / Donald Horowitz -- The state of democratic theory / Ian Shapiro -- Democracy / Robert D. Putnam -- Modernization, cultural change, and the persistence of traditional values / Ronald Inglehart, Wayne E. Baker -- Culture and democracy / Adam Przeworski ... [et al.] -- 4. Democracy and constitutionalism. The Federalist no. 23 / Alexander Hamilton -- The Federalist no. 47 ; no. 48 ; no. 62 / James Madison -- The Federalist no. 70 ; no. 78 / Alexander Hamilton -- Madisonian democracy / Robert Dahl -- A Bill of Rights for Britain / Ronald Dworkin -- A rights-based critique of constitutional rights / Jeremy Waldron -- The political origins of judicial empowerment through consitutionalization : lessons from four constitutional revolutions / Ran Hirschl -- Decision making in a democracy : the Supreme Court as a national policymaker / Robert Dahl -- Democratic justice / Ian Shapiro --
5. Presidentialism versus parliamentarism. The perils of presidentialism / Juan Linz -- Presidentialism, multipartism, and democracy : the difficult combination / Scott Mainwaring -- Presidents and assemblies / Matthew Soberg Shugart, John Carey -- Minority governments, deadlock situations, and the survival of presidential democracies / Josâe Antonio Cheibub -- Minority governments in parliamentary democracies : the rationality of nonwinning cabinet solutions / Kaare Strom -- Institutional design, party systems, and governability : differentiating on the presidential regimes of Latin America / Joe Foweraker -- Presidential power, legislative organization, and party Arginlina Cheibub Figueiredo, Fernando Limongi -- 6. Representation. Representative government / John Stuart Mill -- On elections / Marquis de Condorcet -- Liberalism against populism / William H. Riker -- Saving democracy from political science / Gerry Mackie -- Unlikelihood of Condercet's paradox in a large society / A.S. Tangian -- Congruence between citizens and policymakers in two visions of liberal democracy / John D. Huber, G. Bingham Powell, Jr. -- The political consequences of electoral laws / Douglas W. Rae --
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Defining democracy. The social contact / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- Capitalism, socialism, and democracy / Joseph Schumpeter -- Minimalist conception of democracy : a defense / Adam Przeworski -- Democracy and disagreement / Amy Gutmann, Dennis Thompson -- The voice of the people / James S. Fishkin -- Defining and developing democracy / Larry Diamond -- Participation and democratic theory / Carole Pateman -- Polyarchal democracy / Robert Dahl -- 2. Sources of democracy. Political man : the social bases of politics / Seymour Martin Lipset -- Social revolutions in the modern world / Theda Skocpol -- The impact of economic development on democracy / Evelyn Huber ... [et al.] -- Democracy and the market : political and economic reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America / Ada, Przeworski -- Democracy's third wave / Samuel P. Huntington -- South Africa's negotiated transition : democracy, opposition, and the new constitutional order / Courtney Jung and Ian Shapiro -- Economic development and political regimes / Adam Przeworski ... [et al.] --

3. Democracy, culture, and society. The Federalist no. 10 ; no. 14 / James Madison -- The concept of a liberal society / Louis Hartz -- Pluralism and social choice / Nicholas R. Miller -- Consociational democracy / Arend Lijphart -- The contest of ideas / Donald Horowitz -- The state of democratic theory / Ian Shapiro -- Democracy / Robert D. Putnam -- Modernization, cultural change, and the persistence of traditional values / Ronald Inglehart, Wayne E. Baker -- Culture and democracy / Adam Przeworski ... [et al.] -- 4. Democracy and constitutionalism. The Federalist no. 23 / Alexander Hamilton -- The Federalist no. 47 ; no. 48 ; no. 62 / James Madison -- The Federalist no. 70 ; no. 78 / Alexander Hamilton -- Madisonian democracy / Robert Dahl -- A Bill of Rights for Britain / Ronald Dworkin -- A rights-based critique of constitutional rights / Jeremy Waldron -- The political origins of judicial empowerment through consitutionalization : lessons from four constitutional revolutions / Ran Hirschl -- Decision making in a democracy : the Supreme Court as a national policymaker / Robert Dahl -- Democratic justice / Ian Shapiro --

5. Presidentialism versus parliamentarism. The perils of presidentialism / Juan Linz -- Presidentialism, multipartism, and democracy : the difficult combination / Scott Mainwaring -- Presidents and assemblies / Matthew Soberg Shugart, John Carey -- Minority governments, deadlock situations, and the survival of presidential democracies / Josâe Antonio Cheibub -- Minority governments in parliamentary democracies : the rationality of nonwinning cabinet solutions / Kaare Strom -- Institutional design, party systems, and governability : differentiating on the presidential regimes of Latin America / Joe Foweraker -- Presidential power, legislative organization, and party Arginlina Cheibub Figueiredo, Fernando Limongi -- 6. Representation. Representative government / John Stuart Mill -- On elections / Marquis de Condorcet -- Liberalism against populism / William H. Riker -- Saving democracy from political science / Gerry Mackie -- Unlikelihood of Condercet's paradox in a large society / A.S. Tangian -- Congruence between citizens and policymakers in two visions of liberal democracy / John D. Huber, G. Bingham Powell, Jr. -- The political consequences of electoral laws / Douglas W. Rae --

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