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Author : Bruce E. Cain
Release : 2015
Genre : Law
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 630/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Democracy More or Less by : Bruce E. Cain
Download or read book Democracy More or Less written by Bruce E. Cain. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book studies how American political reform efforts often fail because of the unrealistic ideal of a fully informed and engaged citizenry.
Author : Garett Jones
Release : 2021-03-16
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Book Rating : 977/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis 10% Less Democracy by : Garett Jones
Download or read book 10% Less Democracy written by Garett Jones. This book was released on 2021-03-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracy is a matter of degree, and this book offers mainstream empirical evidence that shows how rich democracies would be better off with a few degrees less of it.
Author : Ilya Somin
Release : 2013-10-02
Genre : Law
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 312/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Democracy and Political Ignorance by : Ilya Somin
Download or read book Democracy and Political Ignorance written by Ilya Somin. This book was released on 2013-10-02. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the biggest problems with modern democracy is that most of the public is usually ignorant of politics and government. Often, many people understand that their votes are unlikely to change the outcome of an election and don't see the point in learning much about politics. This may be rational, but it creates a nation of people with little political knowledge and little ability to objectively evaluate what they do know. In Democracy and Political Ignorance, Ilya Somin mines the depths of ignorance in America and reveals the extent to which it is a major problem for democracy. Somin weighs various options for solving this problem, arguing that political ignorance is best mitigated and its effects lessened by decentralizing and limiting government. Somin provocatively argues that people make better decisions when they choose what to purchase in the market or which state or local government to live under, than when they vote at the ballot box, because they have stronger incentives to acquire relevant information and to use it wisely.
Author : John Saltmarsh
Release : 2011-05-20
Genre : Education
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Book Rating : 088/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis "To Serve a Larger Purpose" by : John Saltmarsh
Download or read book "To Serve a Larger Purpose" written by John Saltmarsh. This book was released on 2011-05-20. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To Serve a Larger Purpose" calls for the reclamation of the original democratic purposes of civic engagement and examines the requisite transformation of higher education required to achieve it. The contributors to this timely and relevant volume effectively highlight the current practice of civic engagement and point to the institutional change needed to realize its democratic ideals. Using multiple perspectives, "To Serve a Larger Purpose" explores the democratic processes and purposes that reorient civic engagement to what the editors call "democratic engagement." The norms of democratic engagement are determined by values such as inclusiveness, collaboration, participation, task sharing, and reciprocity in public problem solving and an equality of respect for the knowledge and experience that everyone contributes to education, knowledge generation, and community building. This book shrewdly rethinks the culture of higher education.
Author : Jason Brennan
Release : 2021
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Rating : 813/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Debating Democracy by : Jason Brennan
Download or read book Debating Democracy written by Jason Brennan. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Around the world, faith in democracy is falling. Partisanship and mutual distrust are increasing. What, if anything, should we do about these problems? In this accessible work, leading philosophers Jason Brennan and Hélène Landemore debate whether the solution lies in having less democracy or more. Brennan argues that democracy has systematic flaws, and that democracy does not and cannot work the way most of us commonly assume. He argues the best solution is to limit democracy's scope and to experiment with certain voting systems that can overcome democracy's problems. Landemore argues that democracy's virtues, which stem, at an ideal level, from its inclusiveness and egalitarian distribution of power, are not properly manifested in the historical regime form that we call "representative democracy." Whereas "representative democracy" centers an oligarchic form of representation by elected officials, Landemore defends s a more authentic paradigm of popular rule-open democracy--in which legislative power is open to all on an equal basis, including via lottery-based mechanisms"--
