Описание: The processes through which democratic representation succeeds or goes astray are illustrated through examples and statistical description in nineteen countries. This book is accessible to both scholars and advanced undergraduate students of democratic representation, comparative elections, and parliamentary government.
Challenging the standard periodization of American literary history, Reconstituting the American Renaissance reinterprets the works of Ralph Waldo Emerson and Walt Whitman and the relationship of these two authors to each other. Jay Grossman argues that issues of political representation—involving vexed questions of who shall speak and for whom—lie at the heart of American political and literary discourse from the revolutionary era through the Civil War. By taking the mid-nineteenth-century period, traditionally understood as marking the advent of literary writing in the United States, and restoring to it the ways in which Emerson and Whitman engaged with eighteenth-century controversies, rhetorics, and languages about politicalrepresentation, Grossman departs significantly from arguments that have traditionally separated American writing in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Reconstituting the American Renaissance describes how Emerson and Whitman came into the period of their greatest productivity with different conceptions of the functions and political efficacy of the word in the world. It challenges Emerson’s position as Whitman’s necessary precursor and offers a cultural history that emphasizes the two writers’ differences in social class, cultural experience, and political perspective. In their writings between 1830 and 1855, the book finds contrasting conceptions of the relations between the “representative man” and the constituencies to whom, and for whom, he speaks. Reconstituting the American Renaissance opens up the canonical relationship between Emerson and Whitman and multiplies the historical and discursive contexts for understanding their published and unpublished works.
Автор: David Laycock Название: Representation and Democratic Theory ISBN: 0774810793 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774810791 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 5146.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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With public confidence in representative institutions dropping todistressing levels, it is time for political theorists to reconnectissues of representation to considerations of justice, rights,citizenship, pluralism, and community. Representation andDemocratic Theory investigates theoretical and practical aspectsof innovative political representation in the early twenty-firstcentury. It reveals the complexity of contemporary politicalrepresentation and the importance of re-invigorating public lifeoutside legislatures, political parties, and competitive elections.
A crucial supplement to empirical studies of conventional politicalrepresentation this book offers a timely and thought-provokingcontribution to contemporary democratic theory. It will be a necessaryand welcome addition to the libraries of many political and socialscientists.
Автор: Manon Tremblay Название: Quebec Women and Legislative Representation ISBN: 0774817682 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780774817684 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 14929.00 р. Наличие на складе: Нет в наличии.
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Women represent a slight majority of Quebec's population, yetthey continue to occupy a minority of seats in its National Assemblyand in Canada's House of Commons and Senate. To explain why thisis, Manon Tremblay examines Quebec women's political engagementsfrom 1791 to the present. She traces the path that led to womenobtaining the rights to vote and run for office and then draws onstatistics and interviews with female politicians to paint an in-depthportrait of women's under-representation and its main causes. Herinnovative account not only documents the significant democraticdeficit in Canada's parliamentary systems, it also outlinesstrategies to improve women's access to legislative representationin Canada and elsewhere.
Описание: This book assesses the causes and consequences of `open meeting laws,` which require public access to proceedings in state legislatures. While some may assume such laws increase accountability, the book consistently finds that open meetings do not influence legislators` behavior or citizens` capacity to alter that behavior.
Описание: This book examines Egypt`s turbulent and contradictory political period (2011-2015) as key to understanding contemporary politics in the country and the developments in the Arab region after the mass protests in 2010/11, more broadly.
Описание: In The Rise and Fall of the Age of Psychopharmacology, esteemed historian Edward Shorter proposes that the recent history of psychiatry is that of a failed scientific discipline of medicine. Medicine generally is about the story of progress, but psychiatry`s story is that of failure in diagnosis, in therapeutics, and in the ability to deliver science-based care to suffering individuals.
Описание: This edited volume investigates America`s transforming democracy as it faces the challenges and developments of the 21st century-challenges and developments that have brought deep dissatisfaction, cultural fragmentation, and economic indignation.
Автор: Gozde Naiboglu Название: Post-Unification Turkish German Cinema ISBN: 3319877933 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319877938 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 9083.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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This book offers a post-representational approach to a range of fiction and non-fiction films that deal with labour migration from Turkey to Germany. Engaging with materialist philosophies of process, it offers analyses of films by Thomas Arslan, Christian Petzold, Aysun Bademsoy, Seyhan Derin, Harun Farocki, Y?ksel Yavuz and Feo Aladag. Shifting the focus from the longstanding concerns of integration, identity and cultural conflict, Gozde Naiboglu shows that these films offer new expressions of lived experience under late capitalism through themes of work, social reproduction, unemployment and insecure work, exhaustion and precarity, thereby calling for a rethinking of the established ideas of class, community and identity.
Автор: Waskiewicz, Andrzej Название: Idea of political representation and its paradoxes ISBN: 3631803885 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631803882 Издательство: Peter Lang Рейтинг: Цена: 9061.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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If we want to understand the vicissitudes of modern democracy then, argues the author, we need to analyse the ideas upon which representative government is based rather than compare contemporary conditions with the Greek ideal. These principal ideas have been presented clearly in past centuries, when the relation between democracy and representation was still a matter of political judgement. The old masters of political thinking clarified the functions of representation: legitimising power, creating sovereignty but also setting its limits, and pursuing the common good while still reflecting social diversity. Because institutions of representation are expected to fulfil a variety of functions, these institutions have in recent times come under attack for standing in the way of radical programs for democratising democracy. The author of this book reminds us that these functions are necessary in every political order, whether democratic or not. Instead of rejecting representation, political theorists should focus on making government more accountable.
Описание: How did the Victorian era - the epoch when the modern democratic state was made - understand democracy, parliamentary representation, and diversity? Here, Gregory Conti examines how the Victorians conceived the representative and deliberative functions of the House of Commons and what it meant for parliament to be the `mirror of the nation`.
Автор: Fisher, Patrick Название: Insufficient representation tcb ISBN: 1498545327 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781498545327 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 26898.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book analyzes the demographic disconnect between the American public and congressional representation. The fact that Congress does not equally represent all citizens is critical to understanding the disillusionment most Americans hold toward the contemporary Congress.
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