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Democratic Decision-Making
Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
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2012
Summary
Democratic Decision-Making: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives contains eight essays by political scientists addressing various aspects of the democratic decision-making process. The book is divided into four parts: democratic statesmanship, the extent to which limitations of the democratic principle of majority rule are desirable, the contemporary doctrine of “deliberative democracy,” and informal modes of democratic decision-making.
Under these four headings, the contributors discuss a wide variety of issues, including the practice of “political opportunism” by such statesmen as Hamilton and Madison; the historical development of legal restraints on democracy in America ranging from judicial review (during the colonial period) to the filibuster; the operation of classical Athenian democracy, the defects of which may have been exaggerated by the American Founders; the significance of the reflections of Tammany Hall boss George Washington Plunkitt for the development of the American party system; the relation of deliberative-democracy theory to the thought of Rousseau; and the means by which cooperative land-use agreements have been arrived at in California, eliciting the voluntary consent of the affected parties instead of relying on judicial or bureaucratic dictates. The book is well-suited for use in courses on American political thought, democratic theory, American political development, and related subjects.
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Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-4206-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-4208-0
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
181
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Editor’s Introduction No access
I: Democratic Statesmanship No access
1 Democratic Leadership No access
2 The Constitutional Morality of Political Opportunism No access
3 American Innovations in Democratic Decision-Making No access
4 In Defense of Democracy No access
5 “Deliberative Democracy” No access
6 Democracy by Constraint No access
7 “This Is an Awful Serious Proposition” No access
