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Robert Pinsky
Democracy, Culture and the Voice of Poetry (The University Center for Human Values Series)

2005 y.
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Description: Book Description The place of poetry in modern democracy is no place, according to conventional wisdom. The poet, we hear, is a casualty of mass entertainment and prosaic public culture, banished to the artistic sidelines to compose variations on insipid themes for a dwindling audience. Robert Pinsky, however, argues that this gloomy diagnosis is as wrongheaded as it is familiar. Pinsky, whose remarkable career as a poet itself undermines the view, writes that to portray poetry and democracy as enemiesis to radically misconstrue both. The voice of poetry, he shows, resonates with profound themes at the very heart of democratic culture. There is no one in America better to write on this topic. One of the country`s most accomplished poets, Robert Pinsky served an unprecedented two terms as America`s Poet Laureate (1997-2000) and led the immensely popular multimedia Favorite Poem Project, which invited Americans to submit and read aloud their favorite poems. Pinsky draws on his [detailed...]

ISBN: 0691122636
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Ashutosh Varshney
Democracy, Development, and the Countryside: Urban-Rural Struggles in India (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)

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Description: What happens to the rural folk--to their power and economic well-being--when development takes place in a democratic framework? Focusing on India where, unlike most of the developing world, a democratic system has flourished for four decades, this book investigates how the rural sector uses its numbers in a democracy to further its economic and political interests. The book also argues that identities constitute a powerful constraint on the pursuit of economic interests. [detailed...]

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Mohamed A. El-Khawas, J. Anyu Ndumbe
Democracy, Diamonds And Oil: Politics in Today`s Africa

2006 y.
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ISBN: 1594548218
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John E. Roemer
Democracy, Education, and Equality: Graz-Schumpeter Lectures (Econometric Society Monographs)

2006 y.
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Description: Many believe that equality of opportunity will be achieved when the prospects of children no longer depend upon the wealth and education of their parents. Many also believe that democracy is the political institution that will bring about justice. This study asks whether democracy, modeled as competition between political parties that represent different interests in the polity, will result in educational funding policies that will, at least eventually, produce citizens with equal capacities (human capital), thus breaking the link between family background and child prospects. [detailed...]

ISBN: 052184665X
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Ian Marsh, Jean Blondel, Takashi Inoguchi
Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance: East and Southeast Asia (The Changing Nature of Democracy)

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Description: The states of East and Southeast Asia constitute a fertile setting for exploring the links between political and economic development--subjects usually considered in isolation. Democratization occurred, or was consolidated, in a number of these states in the early 1990s, but irrespective of the level of democratization, economic performance has been a primary source of political legitimacy in all states in the study. Yet the levels of development vary markedly. Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singaporehave progressively turned to technological innovation as the primary engine of development, while the Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, and Malaysia have focused on incorporation in regional/global production systems. In evaluating democratic development, the study focuses particularly on the condition of parties and party systems. In relation to economic governance, the idea of a developmental state provides a template against which the practices of individual states are [detailed...]

ISBN: 9280810391
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Stephen Knack
Democracy, Governance, and Growth (Economics, Cognition, and Society)

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Description: For many decades, underdevelopment in much of the world was blamed variously on capital deficits, exploitation by rich nations, and market-distorting economic policies. The chapters in this volume provide much of the evidence underpinning a growing consensus among development and growth economists that successful economic development depends more fundamentally on the way societies are organized and governed. They argue that `good governance` is a prerequisite to sustained increases in living standards. The difference between developmental success and failure in this view has little to do with natural resource availability, climate, aid, or developed nations` policies. Rather, it is largely a function of whether incentives within a given society steer wealth-maximizing individuals toward producing new wealth or toward diverting it from others. The chapters, seminal essays written by Mancur Olson and his IRIS Center colleagues, provide theoretical and/or empirical [detailed...]

ISBN: 0472068237
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Paul Downes
Democracy, Revolution, and Monarchism in Early American Literature (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture)

2009 y.
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Description: Paul Downes offers a radical revision of some of the most cherished elements of early American cultural identity. The founding texts and writers of the Republic, he claims, did not wholly displace what they claimed to oppose. Instead, Downes argues, the whole construction of a Republican public sphere actually borrowed and adapted central features of Monarchical rule. Downes discovers this theme not only in a wide range of American novels, but also in readings of a variety of political documents that created the philosophical culture of the American revolutionary period. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521100291
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David Downing
Democracy

2007 y.
Publisher: Heinemann Library
Description: This new edition of a popular series gives a comprehensive guide to systems of government and political movements. Updated to reflect current changes, these books explore how these systems have changed and developed throughout history. Each book contains: top-quality text in clear, accessible language, photos, maps and diagrams, summary information on key players, thinkers and leaders, and a timeline, glossary and index. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0431191719
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M. Lane Bruner
Democracy`s Debt: The Historical Tensions Between Political and Economic Liberty

2009 y.
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Description: It is an undeniable fact that economic circumstances can directly impact political affairs, that wealth is easily translated into political influence, and that political movements and constitutional arrangements can directly influence economic environments. There is no consensus, however, on how to best manage the tensions between the production and maintenance of wealth and the just and responsible exercise of political power.In an in-depth analysis of these historic tensions, Professor of Communication M. Lane Bruner surveys the history of argumentation related to wealth and statecraft, and, more important, the actual economic and political practices in republican polities of the past to compare arguments to policies. The overriding goal of the study is to analyze which forms of governance have provided the most useful guides for the reform of contemporary institutions in charge of global governance.Bruner begins by discussing the interrelationships among forces of the state, the [detailed...]

ISBN: 1591026776
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Richard Madsen
Democracy`s Dharma: Religious Renaissance and Political Development in Taiwan

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0520252276
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Richard Madsen
Democracy`s Dharma: Religious Renaissance and Political Development in Taiwan

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0520252284
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Robert Paehlke
Democracy`s Dilemma: Environment, Social Equity, and the Global Economy

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Description: The realities of global economic integration are far more complex than many of its supporters or detractors acknowledge. One consequence of simplistic thinking about globalization, claims Robert Paehlke, is that we tend to focus on economic prosperity tothe neglect of such other important considerations as environmental and social well-being. A first step toward righting this imbalance is the recognition that economic gains do not guarantee better lives or better communities and societies. Democratic societies face a dilemma. Global economic integration produces a need for global political integration. Without it, national, state, and local governments are under pressure to forego environmental protection and social programs in order to be competitive. At the same time, global governance presents problems because of its scale and its inaccessibility to citizens. This book describes the consequences of this dilemma--such as political cynicism and lack of democratic [detailed...]

ISBN: 0262162156
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Brian C. Anderson
Democratic Capitalism and Its Discontents

2007 y.
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Description: Despite the fall of its ideological enemiesathe political messianisms of communism and national socialismademocratic capitalism faces extraordinary challenges in the new millennium, argues City Journal editor and South Park Conservatives author Brian C. Anderson in this thought-provoking new book. Not only has a fanatical form of Islam distrupted the peace and prosperity of the postcommunist era, which some had wrongly heralded as a liberal-democratic a?end of historya?, our free societies also remain haunted by internal demonsaegalitarian fantasies, moral libertinism, an arid and unsustainable secularism, a suicide of culture. Yet nothing ordains the triumph of these demons over the democratic capitalist prospect, Anderson believes. Drawing on a rich anti-utopian tradition of political thought, he defends the real achievements of the free society against an array of critics, ranging from Jean-Paul Sartre to British anti-market [detailed...]

ISBN: 1933859245
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Ray Carey
Democratic Capitalism: The Way To A World Of Peace And Plenty

2004 y.
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Walter Hettich, Stanley L. Winer
Democratic Choice and Taxation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis

2005 y.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Description: The authors examine how tax policies and tax systems arise out of democratic choices. The emphasis on voting behavior sets their work apart from other research on public finance. They find that democratic institutions yield tax systems that follow predictable patterns. The analysis is applied to the United States in a general equilibrium model. Theory is also linked to fact through statistical research on national and state governments in the U.S. and Canada. In addition, the authors discuss how to evaluate the efficiency of taxation in a framework that includes voting choices and review the related literature. : 15 23 . [detailed...]

ISBN: 0-521-02180-4
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Walter Hettich, Stanley L. Winer
Democratic Choice and Taxation: A Theoretical and Empirical Analysis

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Description: The authors examine how tax policies and tax systems arise out of democratic choices. The emphasis on voting behavior sets their work apart from other research on public finance. They find that democratic institutions yield tax systems that follow predictable patterns. The analysis is applied to the United States in a general equilibrium model. Theory is also linked to fact through statistical research on national and state governments in the U.S. and Canada. In addition, the authors discuss how to evaluate the efficiency of taxation in a framework that includes voting choices and review the related literature. [detailed...]

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Democratic Constitutional Design and Public Policy: Analysis and Evidence

2006 y.
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Description: The variety of constitutional designs found in democratic governments has important effects on policy choices and outcomes. That is the conclusion reached in Democratic Constitutional Design and Public Policy , in which the constitutional procedures and constraints through which laws and public policies are adopted--election laws, the general architecture of government, the legal system, and methods for amendment and reform--are evaluated for their political and economic effects. Leading scholars, many of them pioneers in the new field of constitutional political economy, survey and extend recent empirical evidence on the policy effects of different constitutional procedures and restraints. Their findings are relevant not only to such dramatic changes as democratic transition throughout the world and the development of a European constitution but also to the continuing process of constitutional reform in established democracies. Using the tools of rational choice [detailed...]

ISBN: 0262532808
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Ibp Usa
Democratic Convention 2004 Handbook (World Strategic and Business Information Library)

2008 y.
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Description: Democratic Convention 2004 Handbook [detailed...]

ISBN: 1433009749
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Geoffrey Brennan, Alan P. Hamlin
Democratic Devices and Desires (Theories of Institutional Design)

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Description: This book offers a novel approach to the analysis of democracy, and an application of that approach to a variety of democratic institutions, including elections, representation, political parties and the separation of powers. Standard economic approachesto politics concentrate on the design of institutions and the role of individuals motivated by self-interest. The authors incorporate a broader view of political motivation, assuming individuals are moral as well as rational, and provide a wide-ranging discussion of the design of democratic institutions. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521639778
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Ross Zucker
Democratic Distributive Justice

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Description: By exploring the integral relationship between democracy and economic justice, this study explains how democratic countries with market systems should deal with the problem of high levels of income-inequality. The book provides an interdisciplinary approach that combines political, economic, and legal theory. It also analyzes the nature of economic society and the considerations bearing upon the ethics of relative pay, such as the nature of individual contributions and the extent of community. Hb ISBN (2000): 0-521-79033-6 [detailed...]

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Asim Sen
Democratic Management: The Path to Total Quality With Total Liberty and Equality

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Edited by Martin Marcussen and Jacob Torfing
Democratic Network Governance in Europe

2007 y.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Description: How effective are governance networks? Do they present us with democratic challenges? In which ways, if any, are governance networks themselves being governed? These questions are key to this book`s study of governance networks at local, national and transnational levels. The number, types and functions of governance networks are increasing exponentially. A first generation of network research has given us insight into the scope of network governance in modern society and has helped us distinguish network governance from other types of hierarchical and market-based governance. This book goes one step further in presenting a second generation of network research that focuses on its implications for democracy, its effectiveness and meta-governance of network governance. Drawing on the expertise of well-known network scholars the book identifies, systematically investigates and critically evaluates concrete governance networks whilst applying a number of complementing research [detailed...]

ISBN: 1-4039-9530-3
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William Bernhard, David Leblang
Democratic Processes and Financial Markets: Pricing Politics

2006 y.
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Description: The authors examine the conditions under which democratic events, including elections, cabinet formations, and government dissolutions, affect asset markets. Where these events have less predictable outcomes, market returns are depressed and volatility increases. In contrast, where market actors can forecast the result, returns do not exhibit any unusual behavior. Further, political expectations condition how markets respond to the political process. When news causes market actors to update their political beliefs, market actors reallocate their portfolios, and overall market behavior changes. To measure political information, Professors Bernhard and Leblang employ sophisticated models of the political process. They draw on a variety of models of market behavior, including the efficient markets hypothesis, capital asset pricing model, and arbitrage pricing theory, to trace the impact of political events on currency, stock, and bond markets. The analysis will appeal to academics, [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521678382
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William T. Bernhard, David Leblang
Democratic Processes and Financial Markets: Pricing Politics

2006 y.
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Description: The authors examine the conditions under which democratic events, including elections, cabinet formations, and government dissolutions, affect asset markets. Where these events have less predictable outcomes, market returns are depressed and volatility increases. In contrast, where market actors can forecast the result, returns do not exhibit any unusual behavior. Further, political expectations condition how markets respond to the political process. When news causes market actors to update their political beliefs, market actors reallocate their portfolios, and overall market behavior changes. To measure political information, Professors Bernhard and Leblang employ sophisticated models of the political process. They draw on a variety of models of market behavior, including the efficient markets hypothesis, capital asset pricing model, and arbitrage pricing theory, to trace the impact of political events on currency, stock, and bond markets. The analysis will appeal to academics, [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521861225
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Democratic Reform in Africa: The Impact on Governance &, Poverty Alleviation

2006 y.
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Description: Democratic reform in Africa has been slow, difficult, and at times painful. Nevertheless, sufficient time has passed for those interested in political and economic development to assess what progress, if any, Africa has made in addressing the need for the consolidation of democratic reform and the resolution of considerable developmental challenges. Economic aid and other forms of financial assistance are progressively conditioned on good governance. Accordingly, African states in the New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD) have devised standards for economic and political governance. While the link between governance and development and poverty has been widely accepted, some key interrelationships between elements of the two sectors remain open to debate. Democratic Reform in Africa highlights the issues that cut across both the political and economic reform spectra and identifies obstacles to democratic reform. The book examines various institutions and [detailed...]

ISBN: 0821417215
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Francesca Davis Dipiazza
Democratic Republic of Congo in Pictures (Visual Geography. Second Series)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0822585723
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Joseph R. Oppong, Tania Woodruff
Democratic Republic of The Congo (Modern World Nations)

2007 y.
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ISBN: 0791092496
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Fred Francis, Peg Francis
Democratic Rules of Order : Complete, Easy-To-Use Parliamentary Guide for Governing Meetings of Any Size

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Description: Democratic Rules of Order is a complete, concise, parliamentary guide, made to be adopted as the official rules of order for meetings of any size. It is not an abridgement of other books though it includes much common practice. Its rules are written in plain language, free of complex protocol and jargon, to enable people to participate in meetings equally and efficiently. Since they do not contain complicated procedures which reduce the rights of members less familiar with them, they produces a significantly higher standard of democracy. Meetings make better decisions with greater ease. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0969926049
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Michel Dobry
Democratic and Capitalist Transitions in Eastern Europe: Lessons for the Social Sciences (Geojournal Library, Vol 55)

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Description: This book provides an authoritative assessment of the `transitions` or `transformations` currently under way in Central and Eastern Europe. In order to explore this abundant set of diverse and complex processes, it has adopted a particular perspective, which consists of examining the historical specificity of these processes -- particularly the simultaneity of political and economic transitions -- and, at the same time, how the social sciences have approached and interpreted them and how, in return, theyhave and, a number of new substantial insights into these transformations, in particular on the questions of what `democratic consolidations` actually consist of, as well as the political economy, in a strict sense, of these transitions, focusing on the precise characterization of the market economies which have emerged from these processes. On the other hand, it also constitutes an in-depth critical appraisal, unequalled so far, of the methodological principles, models of explanation, [detailed...]

ISBN: 0792363310
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Jim Tomlinson
Democratice Socialism and Economic Policy: The Atlee Years 1945-1951 (Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History)

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Description: This major new addition to Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History analyzes the economic policies of the Attlee Government, incorporating already published literature and much new research. It integrates the politics of economic policy-making with the economic arguments. It stresses the importance of the government`s drive for efficiency, and strongly questions the claim that in building a `welfare state` the government neglected production. It is the first comprehensive account of the Attlee government`s economic policies. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0521892597
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Liliana Pop
Democratising Capitalism?: The Political Economy of Post-Communist Transformations in Romania, 1989-2001 (Europe in Change)

2006 y.
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Description: This book analyzes the two major components of the post-communist transformations in Romania that account for its new form of capitalism: the reconstitution of politics as democratic politics and the replacement of the plan by the market as the mechanism for economic co-ordination. [detailed...]

ISBN: 0719070945
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