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Designing Democratic Institutions : Nomos XLII.

As the principles and practices of democracy continue to spread ever more widely, it is hard to imagine a corner of the globe into which they will not eventually penetrate. But the euphoria of democratic revolutions is typically short-lived, and usually followed by disgruntlement and even cynicism a...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Shapiro, Ian
Other Authors: Macedo, Stephen
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New York : NYU Press, 2000.
Series:NOMOS Series.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface; Contributors; Introduction; PART I: DELIBERATION, DECISION, AND ENFORCEMENT; 1. Disclosure versus Anonymity in Campaign Finance; 2. Paying for Politics; 3. Instituting Deliberative Democracy; 4. Democracy, Electoral and Contestatory; PART II: DEMOCRACY BEYOND THE NATION-STATE; 5. Self-Determination and Global Democracy: A Critiqueof Liberal Nationalism; 6. Fallacies of Nationalism; 7. Between Philosophy and Law: Sovereignty and theDesign of Democratic Institutions; 8. Designing a Democracy for the Euro-Polity andRevising Democratic Theory in the Process.
  • PART III: LIMITS TO INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN?9. Constitutional Design: An Oxymoron?; 10. Designing Democratic Institutions: Politicalor Economic?; 11. Power-Sharing versus Border-Crossing inEthnically Divided Societies; 12. Provisional Pessimism: A Reply to Van Parijs; Index.