Economic and Political Democracy in Complex Times, 

Автор: Sharp Gene
Название: From Dictatorship to Democracy
ISBN: 1846688396 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781846688393
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Описание: A how-to guide that inspired the Arab Spring.

Автор: Stasavage David
Название: The Decline and Rise of Democracy
ISBN: 0691177465 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780691177465
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A new understanding of how and why early democracy took hold, how modern democracy evolved, and what this teaches us about the future

Historical accounts of democracy's rise tend to focus on ancient Greece and pre-Renaissance Europe. The Decline and Rise of Democracy draws from global evidence to show that the story is much richer--democratic practices were present in many places, at many other times, from the Americas before European conquest, to ancient Mesopotamia, to precolonial Africa. Delving into the prevalence of early democracy throughout the world, David Stasavage makes the case that understanding how and where these democracies flourished--and when and why they declined--can provide crucial information not just about the history of governance, but about the ways modern democracies work and where they could manifest in the future.

Drawing from examples spanning several millennia, Stasavage first considers why states developed either democratic or autocratic styles of governance and argues that early democracy tended to develop in small places with a weak state and, counterintuitively, simple technologies. When central state institutions (such as a tax bureaucracy) were absent--as in medieval Europe--rulers needed consent from their populace to govern. When central institutions were strong--as in China or the Middle East--consent was less necessary and autocracy more likely. He then explores the transition from early to modern democracy, which first took shape in England and then the United States, illustrating that modern democracy arose as an effort to combine popular control with a strong state over a large territory. Democracy has been an experiment that has unfolded over time and across the world--and its transformation is ongoing.

Amidst rising democratic anxieties, The Decline and Rise of Democracy widens the historical lens on the growth of political institutions and offers surprising lessons for all who care about governance.

Автор: Acemoglu, Daron
Название: Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
ISBN: 0521855268 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521855266
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book is the first to use modern social science methodology systematically to explain why some countries are democracies while others are not. Why does democracy sometimes persist and consolidate while other times it collapses? The treatment shows that whether or not a society becomes democratic depends on several factors.

Автор: Acemoglu Daron, Robinson James A.
Название: Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
ISBN: 0521671426 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780521671422
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: This book is the first to use modern social science methodology systematically to explain why some countries are democracies while others are not. Why does democracy sometimes persist and consolidate while other times it collapses? The treatment shows that whether or not a society becomes democratic depends on several factors.

Автор: Keech
Название: Economic Politics in the United States
ISBN: 1107004144 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107004146
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Employing macroeconomic performance as a lens to evaluate democratic institutions, the author uses models of political behavior that allow for opportunism on the part of public officials and shortsightedness on the part of voters to see if democratic institutions lead to inferior macroeconomic performance. We have learned more about how and why democracy can work well or badly in the years since the first edition was published. It was not previously apparent how much the good performance of democracy in the United States was contingent on informal rules and institutions of restraint that are not part of the definition of democracy. Since that first edition, the United States has experienced soaring indebtedness, unintended adverse consequences of housing policy, and massive problems in the financial system. Each of these was permitted or encouraged by the incentives of electoral politics and by limitations on government, the two essential features of democratic institutions.

Автор: Chen, Jie
Название: A Middle Class Without Democracy
ISBN: 0199841632 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199841639
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: What kind of role can the middle class play in potential democratization in such an undemocratic, late developing country as China? To answer this profound political as well as theoretical question, Jie Chen explores attitudinal and behavioral orientation of China`s new middle class to democracy, based on a probability-sample survey and in-depth interviews of residents in the Chinese cities of Beijing, Chengdu, and Xi`an.

Автор: Malleson Tom
Название: After Occupy: Economic Democracy for the 21st Century
ISBN: 0199330107 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199330102
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: After Occupy scrutinizes power structures in workplaces, markets and investment institutions to boldly argue that democracy shouldn`t just be a feature of political institutions but of economic institutions as well.

Автор: Konstantina E. Botsiou; Antonis Klapsis
Название: The Konstantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook 2011
ISBN: 3642267815 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783642267819
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: The global economy is still experiencing the effects of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. As a result, the contents of the book focusses on four main subjects: 1) global economic crisis and its consequences, 2) economic governance, 3) political leadership, and 4) climate change.

Автор: Chen, Jie
Название: A Middle Class Without Democracy
ISBN: 0199385610 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199385614
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: What kind of role can the middle class play in potential democratization in such an undemocratic, late developing country as China? To answer this profound political as well as theoretical question, Jie Chen explores attitudinal and behavioral orientation of China's new middle class to
democracy and democratization. Chen's work is based on a unique set of data collected from a probability-sample survey and in-depth interviews of residents in three major Chinese cities, Beijing, Chengdu and Xi'an--each of which represents a distinct level of economic development in urban China-in
2007 and 2008. The empirical findings derived from this data set confirm that (1) compared to other social classes, particularly lower classes, the new Chinese middle class-especially those employed in the state apparatus-tends to be more supportive of the current Party-state but less supportive of
democratic values and institutions; (2) the new middle class's attitudes toward democracy may be accounted for by this class's close ideational and institutional ties with the state, and its perceived socioeconomic wellbeing, among other factors; (3) the lack of support for democracy among the
middle class tends to cause this social class to act in favor of the current state but in opposition to democratic changes.

The most important political implication is that while China's middle class is not likely to serve as the harbinger of democracy now, its current attitudes toward democracy may change in the future. Such a crucial shift in the middle class's orientation toward democracy can take place, especially
when its dependence on the Party-state decreases and perception of its own social and economic statuses turns pessimistic. The key theoretical implication from the findings suggests that the attitudinal and behavioral orientations of the middle class-as a whole and as a part-toward democratic
change in late developing countries are contingent upon its relationship with the incumbent state and its perceived social/economic wellbeing, and the middle class's support for democracy in these countries is far from inevitable.

Автор: Notturno
Название: Hayek and Popper
ISBN: 0415720036 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415720038
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book argues that Hayek and Popper differed in fundamental ways about rationality, economism, and democracy-and that these differences, and the different ways in which Hayek and Popper argued for them, lie at the heart of political thought and still have significant consequences for our own political discourse today.

Автор: Levy
Название: Escape from Democracy
ISBN: 1107142393 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107142398
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: David M. Levy and Sandra J. Peart show how setting economic policy goals and putting experts in charge of implementing them fails dramatically. They argue that determining the ends and the means can be accomplished more successfully through an ongoing democratic discussion. This provides transparency and protects against expert bias.

Автор: Hadley
Название: Economic Problems of Democracy
ISBN: 1107683270 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107683273
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: First published in 1923 and delivered as the Watson Chair Lectures to various British universities in the previous year, this book examines democracy from an economic viewpoint in order to underline the similarities between the British and American systems of government through the industrial problems each face.