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Book The Real World of Democracy Revisited  and Other Essays on Democracy and Socialism

Download or read book The Real World of Democracy Revisited and Other Essays on Democracy and Socialism written by Frank Cunningham and published by Humanities Press International. This book was released on 1994 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Social Democracy in the Making

Download or read book Social Democracy in the Making written by Gary Dorrien and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-23 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An expansive and ambitious intellectual history of democratic socialism from one of the world's leading intellectual historians and social ethicists The fallout from twenty years of neoliberal economic globalism has sparked a surge of interest in the old idea of democratic socialism--a democracy in which the people control the economy and government, no group dominates any other, and every citizen is free, equal, and included. With a focus on the intertwined legacies of Christian socialism and Social Democratic politics in Britain and Germany, this book traces the story of democratic socialism from its birth in the nineteenth century through the mid-1960s. Examining the tenets on which the movement was founded and how it adapted to different cultural, religious, and economic contexts from its beginnings through the social and political traumas of the twentieth century, Gary Dorrien reminds us that Christian socialism paved the way for all liberation theologies that make the struggles of oppressed peoples the subject of redemption. He argues for a decentralized economic democracy and anti-imperial internationalism.

Book Capitalism  Socialism and Democracy Revisited

Download or read book Capitalism Socialism and Democracy Revisited written by and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Haves Without Have nots

Download or read book Haves Without Have nots written by Mortimer Jerome Adler and published by Scribner. This book was released on 1991 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mortimer J. Adler's Haves Without Have-Nots is a compilation of six essays revolving around a unifying theme: the convergence of capitalism and socialism in a politically and economically democratic world society, the likes of which has never been seen until now, as the 20th century draws to a close.

Book Theories of Democracy

Download or read book Theories of Democracy written by Frank Cunningham and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to be published in this exciting new series on political philosophy. Cunningham provides a critical and clear introduction to the main contemporary approaches to democracy: participatory democracy, classic and radical pluralism, deliberative democracy, catallaxy, and others. Also discussed are theorists in the background of current democratic thought, such as Tocqueville, Mill, and Rousseau. The book includes applications of democratic theories including an extended discussion of democracy and globalisation.

Book Resources of Hope

Download or read book Resources of Hope written by Raymond Williams and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 1989-02-17 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected essays and talks from one of Britain’s great thinkers, ranging across political and cultural theory Raymond Williams possessed unique authority as Britain’s foremost cultural theorist and public intellectual. Informed by an unparalleled range of reference and the resources of deep personal experience, his life’s work represents a patient, exemplary commitment to the building of a socialist future. This book brings together important early writings including “Culture is Ordinary,” “The British Left,” “Welsh Culture” and “Why Do I Demonstrate?” with major essays and talks of the last decade. It includes work on such central themes as the nature of a democratic culture, the value of community, Green socialism, the nuclear threat, and the relation between the state and the arts. Here too, collected for the first time, are the important later political essays which undertake a thorough revaluation of the principles fundamental to the idea of socialist democracy, and confirm Williams as a shrewd and imaginative political theorist. In a sober yet constructive assessment of the possibilities for socialist advance, Williams—in the face of much recent intellectual fashion—powerfully reasserts his lifelong commitment to “making hope practical, rather than despair convincing.” This valuable collection confirms Raymond Williams as a thinker of rare versatility and one of the outstanding intellectuals of our century.

Book Ibss  Political Science  1994

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  • Author : British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics
  • Publisher : Psychology Press
  • Release : 1995-12-08
  • ISBN : 9780415127844
  • Pages : 578 pages

Download or read book Ibss Political Science 1994 written by British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1995-12-08 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.

Book Justice and Democracy

Download or read book Justice and Democracy written by Marietta Stepaniants and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 1997-07-01 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today democracy is increasingly recognized around the world as the only form of government with moral legitimacy. The problems of establishing and preserving truly democratic institutions, however, vary dramatically from culture to culture. Justice and Democracy explores these problems from a wide range of perspectives, theoretical and practical. It addresses problems related to the distortion of democratic decision-making by the gross disparities in wealth that arise in capitalist economies, and, in particular, focuses on the problems relating to the reconciliation of democratic values with the indigenous religious and social values of a culture.

Book Democratic Theory

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  • Author : Crawford Brough Macpherson
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1973
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 255 pages

Download or read book Democratic Theory written by Crawford Brough Macpherson and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Reconsidering C B  MacPherson

Download or read book Reconsidering C B MacPherson written by Phillip Hansen and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2015-01-01 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This manuscript seeks to provide a fresh and comprehensive re-interpretation of the ideas of the world-renowned Canadian Political theorist, C.B. Macpherson."--

Book Constant Struggle

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  • Author : Julien Mauduit
  • Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
  • Release : 2021-10-06
  • ISBN : 0228009952
  • Pages : 439 pages

Download or read book Constant Struggle written by Julien Mauduit and published by McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. This book was released on 2021-10-06 with total page 439 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most Canadians assume they live under some form of democracy. Yet confusion about the meaning of the word and the limits of the people’s power obscures a deeper understanding. Constant Struggle looks for the democratic impulse in Canada’s past to deconstruct how the country became a democracy, if in fact it ever did. This volume asks what limits and contradictions have framed the nation’s democratization process, examining how democracy has been understood by those who have advocated for or resisted it and exploring key historical realities that have shaped it. Scholars from a range of disciplines tackle this elusive concept, suggesting that instead of looking for a simple narrative, we must be alert to the slower, untidier, and incomplete processes of democratization in Canada. Constant Struggle offers a renewed, sometimes unsettling depiction, stretching from studies of early Indigenous societies, through colonial North America and Confederation, into the twentieth century. Contributors reassess democracy in light of settler colonialism and white supremacy, investigate connections between capitalism and democracy, consider alternative conceptions of democracy from Canada’s past, and highlight the various ways in which the democratic ideal has been mobilized to advance particular visions of Canadian society. Demonstrating that Canada’s democratization process has not always been one that empowered the people, Constant Struggle questions traditional views of the relationship between democracy and liberalism in Canada and around the world.

Book Social Science at the Crossroads

Download or read book Social Science at the Crossroads written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 388 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Social Science at the Crossroads brings questions of the future of the university, of democracy, of social science and religion to the front and offers analyses that point toward an overview of urgent problems in the current debate in social science.

Book Personalism and the Politics of Culture

Download or read book Personalism and the Politics of Culture written by P. Grant and published by Springer. This book was released on 1996-10-02 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deals with interrelationships between literature and religion to examine the idea of the person in relation to the politics of culture. Throughout, Patrick Grant maintains that ideology separates value from fact, spirit from matter, and this separation depersonalises. In a series of chapters dealing with body, city, others, freedom, and transgression, and through a selection of texts from the New Testament to the Northern Irish poets, he shows how literature, spirituality, and postmodern culture might jointly liberate persons in a society committed to democratic process and socialist values.

Book The Real World of Democracy

Download or read book The Real World of Democracy written by Crawford Brough Macpherson and published by New York : Oxford University Press, 1972, 1975 printing.. This book was released on 1972 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Real World of Democracy, C. B. Macpherson examines the rival ideas of democracy - the communist, Third World, and Western-liberal variants - and their impacts on one another. Macpherson, who was a professor of political science at the University of Toronto and an Officer of the Order of Canada, suggests that the West need not fear any challenge to liberal democracy if it is prepared to re-examine and alter its own values.

Book Liberalism and its Practice

Download or read book Liberalism and its Practice written by Dan Avnon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-10-12 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liberalism and its Practice brings together leading authorities who provide an excellent insight into the meaning and practice of liberalism. This book explores current debates surrounding liberalism at the end of the twentieth century and what it has to offer in practice. Its focus is two of liberalism's greatest emerging challenges: multiculturalism and states struggling with the transition to democracy. It considers considers the significant tensions that these pressures bring to liberal frameworks and asks what the viable alternatives are.

Book Democracy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Ricardo Blaug
  • Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
  • Release : 2016-02-28
  • ISBN : 074869613X
  • Pages : 632 pages

Download or read book Democracy written by Ricardo Blaug and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2016-02-28 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put together specially for students of democracy, this invaluable reader gathers key statements from political thinkers, explained and contextualised with editorial commentaries. This new edition includes a new introduction, new sections and 29 new readings published since the first edition. Arranged into four sections "e; Traditional Affirmations of Democracy, Key Concepts, Critiques of Democracy and Contemporary Issues "e; it covers democratic thinking in a remarkably broad way. A general introduction highlights democracy's historical complexity and guides you through the current areas of controversy. The extensive bibliography follows the same structure as the text to help you deepen your study.

Book Canadian Communication Thought

Download or read book Canadian Communication Thought written by Robert E. Babe and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Babe examines the writings of ten major thinkers in the context of their physical and cultural environments and finds that there is indeed a mode of theorizing that is quintessentially Canadian.