Reforming Democracies - Six Facts About Politics That Demand a New Agenda

Informationen zum Autor Douglas Chalmers has written on German and Latin American politics and has coedited several books! including the New Politics of Inequality: New Forms of Popular Representation in Latin America. The former chair of political science and director of the Institute of Latin American Studies at Columbia University! he now teaches in! and speaks on! Columbia¿s Core Curriculum. Klappentext Even well-established democracies need reform! and any successful effort to reform democracies must look beyond conventional institutions¿elections! political parties! special interests! legislatures and their relations with chief executives¿to do so. Expanding a traditional vision of the institutions of representative democracy! Douglas A. Chalmers examines six aspects of political practice relating to the people being represented! the structure of those who make law and policy! and the links between those structures and the people. Chalmers concludes with recommendations for successful reform! which requires that we pay attention to a democratic ordering of the constant reconfiguration of decision making patterns; that we recognize the crucial role of information in deliberation; and that we incorporate non-citizens and foreigners into the political system! even when they are not the principal beneficiaries. Zusammenfassung A noted political scientist revises our understanding of the institutions essential for representative democracy.

Product details

• Authors: Douglas Chalmers, Douglas A. Chalmers, Chalmers Douglas A.
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 22.01.2013
• EAN: 9780231162944
• ISBN: 978-0-231-16294-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Series: Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectur; Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures; Leonard Hastings Schoff Lectures (COL)
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General, Politics & government, Political structures: democracy