Parliamentary Democracy - Is There a Perfect Model?

Informationen zum Autor Nicholas Hopkinson Zusammenfassung This title was first published in 2001. With the collapse of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe, the legitimacy of one-party, and often one-person rule in other parts of the world has been fundamentally challenged. It appears that for the first time parliamentary democracy has become the universally accepted model to adopt or to be perfected. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Democracy and Good Government; 2: To What Extent Should Cultural Values and the National Context Determine Democratic Practice?; 3: Adapting Democracy to National Circumstances; 4: Free and Fair Elections; 5: Representation, Political Parties and Direct Democracy; 6: Ensuring Parliamentarians are Representative; 7: Improving the Effectiveness of Parliament; 8: Is There a Correlation between Democracy and Development?; 9: Case Studies; 10: Conclusions

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Hopkinson, Hopkinson Nicholas
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 28.06.2017
• EAN: 9781138716940
• ISBN: 978-1-138-71694-0
• No. of pages: 140
• Series: Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; SOCIAL SCIENCE / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, Political structures: democracy, Society and culture: general, Central / national / federal government, Central government, Political structures / systems: democracy