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On democracy /
Overview: Written by the preeminent democratic theorist of our time, this book explains the nature, value, and mechanics of democracy. This new edition includes two additional chapters by Ian Shapiro, Dahl's successor as Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale and a leading contemporary...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2015]
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| Edición: | Second edition. |
| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface to the second edition / Ian Shapiro
- Note on the text / Ian Shapiro
- Do we really need a guide?
- Part 1: Beginning:
- We Really Need A Guide?
- Where and how did democracy develop? a brief history
- What lies ahead?
- Ideal democracy
- Part 2: Ideal Democracy:
- What is democracy?
- Why democracy?
- Why political equality 1? Intrinsic equality
- Why political equality 2? Civil competence
- Part 3: Actual Democracy:
- What political institutions does large-scale democracy require?
- Varieties 1: Democracy on different scales
- Varieties 2: Constitutions
- Varieties 3: Parties and electoral systems
- Part 4: Conditions Favorable And Unfavorable:
- What underlying conditions favor democracy?
- Why market-capitalism favors democracy
- Why market-capitalism harms democracy
- Unfinished journey
- Part 5: After On Democracy / Ian Shapiro:
- Continuing the journey?
- Democracy and inequality
- Appendix A: On electoral systems
- Appendix B: Political accommodation in culturally or ethnically divided countries
- Appendix C: On counting democratic counties
- Appendix D: On counting democratic countries 2
- Notes
- Further reading
- Acknowledgments
- Index.