Good government : democracy beyond elections /
Few would disagree that Western democracies are experiencing a crisis of representation. In the United States, gerrymandering and concentrated political geographies have placed the Congress and state legislatures in a stranglehold that is often at odds with public opinion. Campaign financing ensures...
Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés Francés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2018.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction: From one democracy to another
- I. Executive power: Consecration of the law and demotion of the executive
- The cult of impersonality and its metamorphoses
- The age of rehabilitation
- Two temptations
- II. The presidentialization of democracies: The pioneering experiments: 1848 and Weimar
- From Gaullist exception to standard model
- Unworkable and unavoidable
- Limiting illiberalism
- III. A democracy of appropriation: The governed and their governors
- Legibility
- Responsibility
- Responsiveness
- IV. A democracy of trust: The good ruler in historical perspective
- Plain speaking
- Integrity
- Conclusion: The second democratic revolution.