Democratic Decision-Making : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.
Title:
Democratic Decision-Making : Historical and Contemporary Perspectives.
Author:
Schaefer, David Lewis.
ISBN:
9780739142080
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (166 pages)
Contents:
Editor's Introduction -- I: Democratic Statesmanship -- 1 Democratic Leadership -- 2 The Constitutional Morality of Political Opportunism -- II: How Far Does Democracy Require Limits? -- 3 American Innovations in Democratic Decision-Making -- 4 In Defense of Democracy -- III: "Deliberative" Democracy? -- 5 "Deliberative Democracy" -- 6 Democracy by Constraint -- IV: Informal Modes of Democratic Decision-Making -- 7 "This Is an Awful Serious Proposition" -- 8 Habitat Conservation Plans -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Abstract:
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Historical and Contemporary Perspectives contains eight essays by political scientists, all but one of them previously unpublished, addressing various aspects of the democratic decision-making process.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 decision-making.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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