Download or read book Consensual Democracy written by Jay Wurts and published by . This book was released on 2017-08-28 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why are modern politics so partisan and divisive?How did our culture of envy, disengagement, and victimization come about? Consensual Democracy reveals the origins and development of guardianism in western political economy: a concise, eye-opening look at how normal human development includes an instinct for direct participation in the things that matter most--shared autonomy or individualism within a social setting. This unique book reveals the connection between guardian politics and guardian economics while exploring the possibilities of direct citizen self-governance in both the private and public sectors. Includes a complete bibliography with further reading list plus index.
Download or read book Consensus as Democracy in Africa written by Matolino, Bernard and published by NISC (Pty) Ltd. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some philosophers on the African continent and beyond are convinced that consensus, as a polity, represents the best chance for Africa to fully democratise. In Consensus as Democracy in Africa, Bernard Matolino challenges the basic assumptions built into consensus as a social and political theory. Central to his challenge to the claimed viability of consensus as a democratic system are three major questions: Is consensus genuinely superior to its majoritarian counterpart? Is consensus itself truly a democratic system? Is consensus sufficiently different from the one-party system? In taking up these issues and others closely associated with them, Matolino shows that consensus as a system of democracy encounters several challenges that make its viability highly doubtful. Matolino then attempts a combination of an understanding of an authentic mode of democracy with African reality to work out what a more desirable polity would be for the continent.
Download or read book Deciding in Unison Themes in Consensual Democracy in Africa written by Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Deciding in Unison: Themes in Consensual Democracy in Africa' is an edited volume that both scholars and students of African philosophy and politics will find interesting. The chapters trace the current state of the debate as well as the idea that the advancement of consensus democracy as unanimity democracy is no longer valid, and a democracy of compromise is suggested as an alternative for advancing consensus democracy. The collection also contains chapters dealing with Wiredu’s consensual proposal for the building of resistance movements as well as his views about the relativity of truth and the way we should handle it. However, there are also chapters that explore the non-party system Wiredu proposes as not applicable in practice. Furthermore, the issues related to transferring consensus-supporting values like communism into the contemporary Africa setting are also examined. Also discussed in the book is how current presentations of African epistemology cannot pass for epistemology, and how we could begin to think of fashioning an African epistemology from deliberation aimed at consensus.
Download or read book The Death of Consensus written by Phil Tinline and published by Hurst Publishers. This book was released on 2022-06-23 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over Britain’s first century of mass democracy, politics has lurched from crisis to crisis. How does this history of political agony illuminate our current age of upheaval? To find out, journalist Phil Tinline takes us back to two past eras when the ruling consensus broke down, and the future filled with ominous possibilities – until, finally, a new settlement was born. How did the Great Depression’s spectres of fascism, bombing and mass unemployment force politicians to think the unthinkable, and pave the way to post-war Britain? How was Thatcher’s road to victory made possible by a decade of nightmares: of hyperinflation, military coups and communist dictatorship? And why, since the Crash in 2008, have new political threats and divisions forced us to change course once again? Tinline brings to life those times, past and present, when the great compromise holding democracy together has come apart; when the political class has been forced to make a choice of nightmares. This lively, original account of panic and chaos reveals how apparent catastrophes can clear the path to a new era. The Death of Consensus will make you see British democracy differently.
Download or read book Patterns of Democracy written by Arend Lijphart and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-01 with total page 457 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining 36 democracies from 1945 to 2010, this text arrives at conclusions about what type of democracy works best. It demonstrates that consensual systems stimulate economic growth, control inflation and unemployment, and limit budget deficits.
Download or read book Consensus as Democracy in Africa written by Bernard Matolino and published by African Books Collective. This book was released on 2018-12-28 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some philosophers on the African continent and beyond are convinced that consensus, as a polity, represents the best chance for Africa to fully democratise. In Consensus as Democracy in Africa, Bernard Matolino challenges the basic assumptions built into consensus as a social and political theory. Central to his challenge to the claimed viability of consensus as a democratic system are three major questions: Is consensus genuinely superior to its majoritarian counterpart? Is consensus itself truly a democratic system? Is consensus sufficiently different from the one-party system? In taking up these issues and others closely associated with them, Matolino shows that consensus as a system of democracy encounters several challenges that make its viability highly doubtful. Matolino then attempts a combination of an understanding of an authentic mode of democracy with African reality to work out what a more desirable polity would be for the continent.
Download or read book Deciding in Unison written by Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ani and published by Vernon Press. This book was released on 2020-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Deciding in Unison: Themes in Consensual Democracy in Africa' is an edited volume that both scholars and students of African philosophy and politics will find interesting. The chapters trace the current state of the debate as well as the idea that the advancement of consensus democracy as unanimity democracy is no longer valid, and a democracy of compromise is suggested as an alternative for advancing consensus democracy. The collection also contains chapters dealing with Wiredu's consensual proposal for the building of resistance movements as well as his views about the relativity of truth and the way we should handle it. However, there are also chapters that explore the non-party system Wiredu proposes as not applicable in practice. Furthermore, the issues related to transferring consensus-supporting values like communism into the contemporary Africa setting are also examined. Also discussed in the book is how current presentations of African epistemology cannot pass for epistemology, and how we could begin to think of fashioning an African epistemology from deliberation aimed at consensus.
Download or read book Hind Swaraj written by Ashu Pasricha and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 2007 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Consensus Without Veto players written by Anthony J. McGann and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 22 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Democracy in Africa written by Nic Cheeseman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-12 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides the first comprehensive overview of Africa's history of democracy, grappling with important questions facing Africa today.
Download or read book Designing an All Inclusive Democracy written by Peter Emerson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-05-05 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book describes the voting procedures by which majority rule may be replaced by a more consensual system of governance. In a word, such an inclusive polity can be achieved by asking the voters or, more usually, their representatives in councils and parliaments, to state their preferences, so to facilitate the identification of that option which gains the highest average preference score.
Download or read book Democracy Or Anarchy written by Ferdinand Aloys Hermens and published by . This book was released on 1941 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Leadership and Institutional Reform in Consensual Democracies written by Jörg Erik Noll and published by Cuvillier Verlag. This book was released on 2005 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Democracies written by Arend Lijphart and published by . This book was released on 1984-01-01 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is more than one way to run a successful democracy. Lijphart divides these democracies into two basic models: majoritarian democracies, in which the majority rules, and consensus democracies, in which deep divisions in the society have prompted restraints on majority rule. This book is the broadest and most thorough comparative study of democratic regimes available and will be especially suitable for course use.
Download or read book Challenges to Consensual Politics written by Daniele Caramani and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book analyses the transnational Alpine region where historical, social, and geo-economic specificities have led to a distinctive type of democracy and identity. Differentialist identities, multi-level consociational accommodation, and corporatist intermediation are typical features of this region's «consensual politics», and the process of European integration adds further to this complexity. These forms of consensual politics are challenged today by large and persistent populist parties that express strong anti-elitist sentiments, local identities, and Euro-sceptic attitudes. The book examines the defensive reaction of populist parties to the perceived threats of open borders (multi-culturalism and cheap labour) and elite negotiations (at all levels of governance). Protest attitudes translate into alternative views of European integration favouring proposals for an anti-assimilationist and labour protective «Fortress», as well as a religiously-based «Europe of the People». The book considers the possibility of a potential cleavage in the incipient European party system through alliances of «losers of integration» cutting across the left-right alignment and overlapping with ethno-linguistic, centre-periphery, religious, and rural-urban factors that survived in the Alpine region more than elsewhere. An empirical analysis by a group of international experts focuses on the Alpine areas of Austria, France, Germany, Italy, Slovenia, and Switzerland in which parties like FPÖ, CSU, Lega Nord, and Schweizerische Volkspartei have recently become crucial actors.
Download or read book Discordant Democrats written by Arun Maira and published by Penguin Books India. This book was released on 2007 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Twenty-Two Official Languages, Many Races And Almost All The Major Religions Of The World Could A Diverse Country Like India Have Survived Without Democracy And Consensus? Yet There Are Many Who Believe India S Economic Development Is Hampered By Its Noisy Democracy; Like China, Democracy Should Follow Development, Not Precede It. Indeed, The Belief That Democracy Automatically Reduces Discord Has Recently Been Under Question, Since It Has Been Seen That Democratic Constitutions And Systems For Free And Fair Elections Cannot By Themselves Eliminate Disagreements. In Fact, Democracy Brings To The Surface Latent Differences And Makes Discord More Visible, As Is Evident From The Way It Has Functioned Within India And The Usa, And From More Recent Experiences In Some Countries In The Middle East As Well As Afghanistan, Where Democracy Has Supposedly Been Restored . What Then Is The Best Way Forward? All We Require, Arun Maira Argues In This Book, Is For Democracy To Be Made To Work More Effectively. In Healthy Democracies, Politics Cannot Be Left Merely To Politicians: People At All Levels Must Take Responsibility For Shaping The World. Therefore Democracies Require Widespread Processes For Dialogue, Consensus Building And Collaborative Action Amongst People With Different Perspectives. Weapons Of Mass Destruction Need To Be Replaced With Ways For Mass Dialogue. Discordant Democrats Is A Roadmap To Collaborative Governance By One Of The Finest Thinkers On Transformational Change. With Insights From Research, His Experience In Consensus Building And Collaborative Action, And A Variety Of Examples From India And Elsewhere, The Author Sets Out Five Steps To Build Consensus And Describes The Principles And Tools With Which This Can Be Achieved And Applied By People In Any Walk Of Life.
Download or read book Consent and Consensus written by Percy Herbert Partridge and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces relationships between the idea of "consent" and the more technical and more recent concept of "consensus." Dealing especially with contemporary writing in political science and sociology, it explores the elements of consensus in modern societies and examines current theories about the relationship among consensus, social stability, and political democracy. --from cover flap.
