Elite Foundations Of Liberal Democracy
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Author |
: John Higley |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 244 |
Release |
: 2006 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0742553612 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780742553613 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (12 Downloads) |
Synopsis Elite Foundations of Liberal Democracy by : John Higley
This compelling and convincing study, the capstone of decades of research, argues that political regimes are created and sustained by elites. Liberal democracies are no exception; they depend, above all, on the formation and persistence of consensually united elites. John Higley and Michael Burton explore the circumstances and ways in which such elites have formed in the modern world. They identify pressures that may cause a basic change in the structure and functioning of elites in established liberal democracies, and they ask if the elites cluster around George W. Bush are a harbinger of this change. The authors' powerful and important argument reframes our thinking about liberal democracy and questions optimistic assumptions about the prospects for its spread in the twenty-first century.
Author |
: John Higley |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 177 |
Release |
: 2021-10-29 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781538162897 |
ISBN-13 |
: 153816289X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (97 Downloads) |
Synopsis Elites, Non-Elites, and Political Realism by : John Higley
This provocative and groundbreaking book challenges accepted wisdom about the role of elites in both maintaining and undermining democracy in an increasingly authoritarian world. John Higley traces patterns of elite political behavior and the political orientations of non-elite populations throughout modern history to show what is and is not possible in contemporary politics. He situates these patterns and orientations in a range of regimes, showing how they have played out in revolutions, populist nationalism, Arab Spring failures to democratize, the conflation of ultimate and instrumental values in today’s liberal democracies, and American political thinkers’ misguided assumption that non-elites are the principal determinants of politics. Critiquing the optimistic outlooks prevalent among educated Westerners, Higley considers them out of touch with reality because of spreading employment insecurity, demoralization, and millennial pursuits in their societies. Attacks by domestic and foreign terrorists, effects of climate change, mass migrations from countries outside the West, and disease pandemics exacerbate insecurity and further highlight the flaws in the belief that democracy can thrive and spread worldwide. Higley concludes that these threats to the well-being of Western societies are here to stay. They leave elites with no realistic alternative to a holding operation until at least mid-century that husbands the power and political practices of Western societies. Drawing on decades of research, Higley’s analysis is historically and comparatively informed, bold, and in some places dark—and will be sure to foster debate.
Author |
: Michael Albertus |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 326 |
Release |
: 2018-01-25 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108196420 |
ISBN-13 |
: 110819642X |
Rating |
: 4/5 (20 Downloads) |
Synopsis Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy by : Michael Albertus
This book argues that - in terms of institutional design, the allocation of power and privilege, and the lived experiences of citizens - democracy often does not restart the political game after displacing authoritarianism. Democratic institutions are frequently designed by the outgoing authoritarian regime to shield incumbent elites from the rule of law and give them an unfair advantage over politics and the economy after democratization. Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy systematically documents and analyzes the constitutional tools that outgoing authoritarian elites use to accomplish these ends, such as electoral system design, legislative appointments, federalism, legal immunities, constitutional tribunal design, and supermajority thresholds for change. The study provides wide-ranging evidence for these claims using data that spans the globe and dates from 1800 to the present. Albertus and Menaldo also conduct detailed case studies of Chile and Sweden. In doing so, they explain why some democracies successfully overhaul their elite-biased constitutions for more egalitarian social contracts.
Author |
: Christopher Lasch |
Publisher |
: W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages |
: 289 |
Release |
: 1996-01-17 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780393313710 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0393313719 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (10 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy by : Christopher Lasch
This text challenges American notions of democracy and ambition, culture and civic responsibility, charting a decline in democratic values and debate. It states that this change is due to the "new elites" who, having lost their sense of communitarianism, will not accept ties to nation and to place.
Author |
: Yascha Mounk |
Publisher |
: Harvard University Press |
Total Pages |
: 401 |
Release |
: 2018-03-05 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780674976825 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0674976827 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (25 Downloads) |
Synopsis The People Vs. Democracy by : Yascha Mounk
Uiteenzetting over de opkomst van het populisme en het gevaar daarvan voor de democratie.
Author |
: Max Meyer |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 77 |
Release |
: 2020-01-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030474089 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030474089 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (89 Downloads) |
Synopsis Liberal Democracy by : Max Meyer
This open access book aims to show which factors have been decisive in the rise of successful countries. Never before have so many people been so well off. However, prosperity is not a law of nature; it has to be worked for. A liberal economy stands at the forefront of this success - not as a political system, but as a set of economic rules promoting competition, which in turn leads to innovation, research and enormous productivity. Sustainable prosperity is built on a foundation of freedom, equal opportunity and a functioning government. This requires a stable democracy that cannot be defeated by an autocrat. Autocrats claim that "illiberalism" is more efficient, an assertion that justifies their own power. Although autocrats can efficiently guide the first steps out of poverty, once a certain level of prosperity has been achieved, people begin to demand a sense of well-being - freedom and codetermination. Only when this is possible will they feel comfortable, and progress will continue. Respect for human rights is crucial. The rules of the free market do not lean to either the right or left politically. Liberalism and the welfare state are not mutually exclusive. The "conflict" concerns the amount of government intervention. Should there be more or less? As a lawyer, entrepreneur, and board member with over 40 years of experience in this field of conflict, the author clearly describes the conditions necessary for a country to maintain its position at the top.
Author |
: Christopher Hayes |
Publisher |
: Crown |
Total Pages |
: 306 |
Release |
: 2012 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780307720450 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0307720454 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (50 Downloads) |
Synopsis Twilight of the Elites by : Christopher Hayes
Analyzes scandals in high-profile institutions, from Wall Street and the Catholic Church to corporate America and Major League Baseball, while evaluating how an elite American meritocracy rose throughout the past half-century before succumbing to unprecedented levels of corruption and failure. 75,000 first printing.
Author |
: Randall G. Holcombe |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 305 |
Release |
: 2018-07-19 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781108596121 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1108596126 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Political Capitalism by : Randall G. Holcombe
Problems associated with cronyism, corporatism, and policies that favor the elite over the masses have received increasing attention in recent years. Political Capitalism explains that what people often view as the result of corruption and unethical behavior are symptoms of a distinct system of political economy. The symptoms of political capitalism are often viewed as the result of government intervention in a market economy, or as attributes of a capitalist economy itself. Randall G. Holcombe combines well-established theories in economics and the social sciences to show that political capitalism is not a mixed economy, or government intervention in a market economy, or some intermediate step between capitalism and socialism. After developing the economic theory of political capitalism, Holcombe goes on to explain how changes in political ideology have facilitated the growth of political capitalism, and what can be done to redirect public policy back toward the public interest.
Author |
: Fredrik Engelstad |
Publisher |
: Emerald Group Publishing |
Total Pages |
: 240 |
Release |
: 2019-10-07 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781838679156 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1838679154 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (56 Downloads) |
Synopsis Elites and People by : Fredrik Engelstad
The present volume of Comparative Social Research offers a broad set of comparative studies of elites, stretching from the Arab Spring in Tunisia and Egypt to women's political leadership in Brazil and Germany, via attainment of elite positions among minorities in France and the US.
Author |
: Patrick J. Deneen |
Publisher |
: Yale University Press |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 2019-02-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780300240023 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0300240023 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Why Liberalism Failed by : Patrick J. Deneen
"One of the most important political books of 2018."—Rod Dreher, American Conservative Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century—fascism, communism, and liberalism—only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism’s proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As Patrick Deneen argues in this provocative book, liberalism is built on a foundation of contradictions: it trumpets equal rights while fostering incomparable material inequality; its legitimacy rests on consent, yet it discourages civic commitments in favor of privatism; and in its pursuit of individual autonomy, it has given rise to the most far-reaching, comprehensive state system in human history. Here, Deneen offers an astringent warning that the centripetal forces now at work on our political culture are not superficial flaws but inherent features of a system whose success is generating its own failure.