Designing democratic institutions / edited by Ian Shapiro and Stephen Macedo.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shapiro, Ian

Macedo, Stephen, 1957-

Series:

Nomos ; 42.

Nomos ; 42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy.

Democratization.

Physical Description:

xii, 331 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York ; London : New York University Press, [2000]

Summary:

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 about the actual operation of democratic institutions. It is widely accepted that democracy is a good thing. However democrats have much work to do in improving the performance of democratic institutions.

The essays in this volume focus on this difficult and vital challenge: how can we improve the design of democratic institutions? How can public deliberation in democracies be enhanced? How can elections be reformed so as to dampen the excessive influence of special interests, especially those with money? How can democratic institutions be reformed so they can deal with issues that transcend the boundaries of the nation-state? And finally, how can democratic practices better take account of the internal plurality of societies that are ethnically or otherwise divided?

Contents:

Part I Deliberation, Decision, and Enforcement

1. Disclosure versus Anonymity in Campaign Finance / Ian Ayres 19

2. Paying for Politics / Geoffrey Brennan, Alan Hamlin 55

3. Instituting Deliberative Democracy / John Ferejohn 75

4. Democracy, Electoral and Contestatory / Philip Pettit 105

Part II Democracy Beyond the Nation-State

5. Self-Determination and Global Democracy: A Critique of Liberal Nationalism / Iris Marion Young 147

6. Fallacies of Nationalism / Russell Hardin 184

7. Between Philosophy and Law: Sovereignty and the Design of Democratic Institutions / Robert Post 209

8. Designing a Democracy for the Euro-Polity and Revising Democratic Theory in the Process / Philippe C. Schmitter 224

Part III Limits to Institutional Design?

9. Constitutional Design: An Oxymoron? / Donald L. Horowitz 253

10. Designing Democratic Institutions: Political or Economic? / Brooke A. Ackerly 285

11. Power-Sharing versus Border-Crossing in Ethnically Divided Societies / Philippe Van Parijs 296

12. Provisional Pessimism: A Reply to Van Parijs / Donald L. Horowitz 321.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0814797733

OCLC:

43936659