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This book breaks new ground in challenging the established status of the Scandinavian countries as consensual democracies -- .

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Mr. Pearson's approach to world politics might be characterized as a combination of moral firmness with patience and toleration, and a determination to explore every possible avenue toward an honorable peace. He has barbed words for those who expect easy solutions to international problems, as well as for those who succumb to despair or take refuge

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Since World War II the democratic systems adopted by states emerging from colonial rule have in some cases been abandoned and in others suspended or transformed. Two questions arise: Can democracy succeed in newly independent states dominated by communal cleavages If so, what adjustments are necessary in Western models of democracy Karl von Vorys

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Inder Singh examines why international organizations including the UN, OSCE, and Council of Europe advocated democratic governance, based on the rule of law and respect for human and minority rights, as the method by which states should try to accommodate their ethnically mixed populations.

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Examines the social values of the American people and their application to public policies.

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Democracy is not naturally plausible. Why turn such important matters over to masses of people who have no expertise This title offers an alternative based on the idea that democratic authority and legitimacy must depend partly on democracy's tendency to make good decisions.

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Lisa Martin argues that legislatures actually serve foreign policy well by giving credibility to the international commitments that are made. Martin concludes that - if institutionalized - even rancorous domestic conversations between executives and legislature augment rather than impede states' international dealings.

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Miller examines the evolution of the system in response to climactic social and economic changes and questions how the American political system will adapt to the crisis-filled world of the late twentieth century.

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The American political reformer Herbert Croly wrote, "For better or worse, democracy cannot be disentangled from an aspiration toward human perfectibility." Democratic Faith is at once a trenchant analysis and a powerful critique of this underlying assumption that informs democratic theory. Patrick Deneen argues that among democracy's most ardent s

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Argues that among democracy's supporters there is a belief in the need to "transform" human beings in order to reconcile the reality of human self-interest with the ideal of selfless commitment. This book proposes a form of "democratic realism" that recognizes democracy the regime appropriate for imperfect humans.

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This analysis of international relations provides insights into the global struggle between the Western democracies and Asian communism.

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Leading scholar of citizenship and migration Rainer Bauboeck proposes a theory of inclusion for democratic societies. Five prominent interlocutors comment on this theory. -- .

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Leading scholar of citizenship and migration Rainer Bauboeck proposes a theory of inclusion for democratic societies. Five prominent interlocutors comment on this theory. -- .

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It's a commonplace that citizens in Western democracies are disaffected with their political leaders and traditional democratic institutions. This title argues that this crisis of confidence is partly a crisis of understanding.

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In this work, the author applies a model of democratic organization for social change to his findings regarding the way literacy campaigns and Christian base communities were organized in four Latin American countries.

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Professor Pennock launches an encyclopedic study that evaluates and ultimately synthesizes a variety of democratic theories. After defining democracy and examining the basic tensions both within and between liberty and equality, and individualism and collectivism, the author sets forth two typologies of operational democratic theories, one related

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