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Democratic decision-making : historical and contemporary perspectives / edited by David Lewis Schaefer.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Deliberative democracy.
- Democracy--Decision making.
- Democracy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (197 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Md. : Lexington Books, 2012.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Democratic Decision-Making: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives contains eight essays by political scientists, all but one of them previously unpublished, addressing various aspects of the democratic decision-making process. The book consists of four parts, each consisting of two essays devoted to a common theme: democratic statesmanship, the extent to which limitations of the democratic principle of majority rule are desirable, the contemporary academic theory of "deliberative democracy," and informal modes of democratic decisio
- Contents:
- Democratic leadership / William Galston
- The political morality of constitutional opportunism / Peter McNamara
- American innovations in democratic decision-making / Leslie Friedman Goldstein
- In defense of democracy: anti-democratic sentiment and democratic deliberation from ancient Athens to the American founding / Dustin A. Gish
- Deliberative democracy: the transformation of a political concept / David Lewis Schaefer
- Democracy by constraint: the ideal of deliberative democracy in the light of Rousseau / Daniel Cullen
- This is an awful serious proposition: George Washington Plunkitt in the context of nineteenth-century party nationalization / Daniel Klinghard
- Habitat conservation plans: redesigning development through collaborative negotiations / Nancy Jimeno.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-34594-7
- 1-280-66633-1
- 9786613643261
- 0-7391-4208-9
- OCLC:
- 779828632
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