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

• Pubblicazione: New York, : New York University Press, c2000
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (343 p.)
• Disciplina: 321.8
• Soggetto topico: Democracy; Democratization
• Altri autori: ShapiroIan MacedoStephen <1957->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Designing democratic institutions
• ISBN: 0-8147-8350-3; 0-8147-8662-6; 1-4294-9026-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910808443503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
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