On democracy
Written by the preeminent democratic theorist of our time, this book explains the nature, value, and mechanics of democracy. This new edition includes two additional chapters by Ian Shapiro, Dahl’s successor as Sterling Professor of Political Science at Yale and a leading contemporary authority on d...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press
[2015]
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| Edición: | Second edition |
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009623429206719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Note on the Text
- CHAPTER 1. Do We Really Need a Guide?
- PART I. The Beginning
- CHAPTER 2. Where and How Did Democracy Develop?
- CHAPTER 3. What Lies Ahead?
- PART II. Ideal Democracy
- CHAPTER 4. What Is Democracy?
- CHAPTER 5. Why Democracy?
- CHAPTER 6. Why Political Equality I69? INTRINSIC EQUALITY
- CHAPTER 7. Why Political Equality II? CIVIC COMPETENCE
- PART III. Actual Democracy
- CHAPTER 8. What Political Institutions Does Large-Scale Democracy Require?
- CHAPTER 9. Varieties I: DEMOCRACY ON DIFFERENT SCALES
- CHAPTER 10. Varieties II: CONSTITUTIONS
- CHAPTER 11. Varieties III: PARTIES AND ELECTORAL SYSTEMS
- PART IV. Conditions Favorable and Unfavorable
- CHAPTER 12. What Underlying Conditions Favor Democracy?
- CHAPTER 13. Why Market-Capitalism Favors Democracy
- CHAPTER 14. Why Market- Capitalism Harms Democracy
- CHAPTER 15. The Unfinished Journey
- Part V. After On Democracy
- Chapter 16. Continuing the Journey?
- Chapter 17. Democracy and Inequality
- APPENDIX A .On Electoral Systems
- APPENDIX B. Political Accommodation in Culturally or Ethnically Divided Countries
- APPENDIX C. On Counting Democratic Countries
- Appendix D. On Counting Democratic Countries II
- NOTES
- FOR FURTHER READING
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- Index
