Importing Democracy - Ideas from Around the World to Reform and Revitalize American

Informationen zum Autor Raymond A. Smith , PhD, is adjunct assistant professor of political science at Columbia University and New York University, and an investigator in the Division of Gender, Sexuality, and Health at the Columbia University Medical Center. His published work includes Greenwood's The Politics of Sexuality: A Documentary and Reference Guide and Praeger's Drugs into Bodies: Global AIDS Treatment Activism . Klappentext This unique work brings together a comparative analysis of American institutions, a tour of the world's political systems, and a manifesto for reform, offering insights on democracy that could revitalize U.S. politics and government.The United States has always taken pride in being a model of democracy. However, presidential systems are more closely associated with dictatorship and single-party rule in other parts of the world like Latin America and Africa. Indeed, democratic practices more often flourish in parliamentary systems, and the United States remains the only advanced, industrialized democracy with a presidential system instead of a parliamentary organization.Each of the 21 chapters in Importing Democracy: Ideas from Around the World to Reform and Revitalize American Politics and Government highlights a feature of a foreign nation's political system that is absent in the U.S. system. Chapters also draw on brief case studies from countries as diverse as Australia, Brazil, Iceland, India, Germany and South Africa. Importing Democracy explores whether American politics and government might be enhanced by incorporating a multiparty system, a simplified Constitutional amendment process, parliamentary practices of accountability, proportional representation elections, presidential votes of "no confidence," restraints on judicial power, and much more. Zusammenfassung This unique work brings together a comparative analysis of American institutions! a tour of the world's political systems! and a manifesto for reform! offering insights on democracy that could revitalize U.S. politics and government. ...

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• Authors: Raymond (EDT) Smith
• Assisted by: Raymond Smith (Editor), Raymond A. Smith (Editor), Smith Raymond A. (Editor)
• Publisher: Greenwood Press
• Languages: English
• Age Recommendation: ages 7 to 17
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.06.2010
• EAN: 9780313363375
• ISBN: 978-0-313-36337-5
• No. of pages: 236
• Series: New Trends and Ideas in Americ; New Trends and Ideas in American Politics; New Trends and Ideas in Americ; New Trends and Ideas in American Politics
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Comparative Politics, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, Politics & government, Politics and government, Comparative Politics; Politics, Law, and Government