Designing Democracy

A powerful, persuasive critique of the conditions that distort [democratic] deliberation. Informationen zum Autor Cass Sunstein is Karl Llewellyn Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago Law School and Department of Political Science. His many books include Republic.com, One Case at a Time: Judicial Minimalism on the Supreme Court, Free Markets and Social Justice, Democracy and the Problem of Free Speech, and The Partial Constitution. He has advised many nations on constitution-making and law reform initiatives, including Ukraine, South Africa, China, Bosnia, Israel, Russia, and Poland. A former law clerk to Justice Thurgood Marshall and a former Attorney-Advisor in the Department of Justice, he has testified before Congress on many issues, including free speech in the media, separation of powers, discriminations against gays in the military, and presidential impeachment. He served on the President's Advisory Committee on the Public Service Obligation of Television Broadcasters and is a frequent contributor to The New Republic and The New York Times Book Review. Klappentext A fresh examination of constitutionalism is presented by one of the nation's most respected legal scholars. Zusammenfassung Confronting several political issues, from discrimination against women to gays to the limits of religious liberty, this book constructs a perspective from which to show how democracies negotiate their most divisive realworld problems. It is of interest to those concerned with the promises and pitfalls of the democratic experiment.

Product details

• Authors: Cass Sunstein, Cass R. Sunstein, Sunstein Cass R.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 16.01.2003
• EAN: 9780195158403
• ISBN: 978-0-19-515840-3
• No. of pages: 290
• Dimensions: 156 mm x 235 mm x 18 mm
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Constitutions, Political structures: democracy, Constitution: government & the state, Constitution: government and the state