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:

1 online resource (343 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, c2000.

Language Note:

English

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

Contents:

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 Critique of Liberal Nationalism; 6. Fallacies of Nationalism; 7. Between Philosophy and Law: Sovereignty and the Design of Democratic Institutions; 8. Designing a Democracy for the Euro-Polity and Revising Democratic Theory in the Process

PART III: LIMITS TO INSTITUTIONAL DESIGN? 9. Constitutional Design: An Oxymoron?; 10. Designing Democratic Institutions: Political or Economic?; 11. Power-Sharing versus Border-Crossing in Ethnically Divided Societies; 12. Provisional Pessimism: A Reply to Van Parijs; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780814783504

0814783503

9780814786628

0814786626

9781429490269

1429490268

OCLC:

779828360