Defining Democracy Voting Procedures in Decision-Making, Elections and Governance /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Emerson, Peter (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Έκδοση: 2.
• Θέματα: Political science.; Public finance.; Political Science and International Relations.; Political Science.; Public Economics.

Defining Democracy looks both at the theory of why and the history of how different voting procedures have come to be used – or not, as the case may be – in the three fields of democratic structures: firstly, in decision-making, both in society at large and in the elected chamber; secondly, in elect...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Foreword by Professor Arend Lijphart
• Part I: Decision-Making
• 1 The Myths of Majority Rule
• 2 Pluralist Decision-Maing
• Part II:  Elections
• 3 "Party-ocracies"
• 4 The Candid Candidate
• Part III: The Art of Governance
• 5 The Elected Dictator
• 6 Governance
• Appendices
• Chronology
• References
• Index.