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This book should be of interest to undergraduates and graduates of Political Theory, Political Philosophy. Ex-library, With usual stamps and markings, In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy.

Home Browse Books Book details, Democracy: History, Theory, Practice. Democracy: History, Theory, Practice. By Sanford A. Lakoff. Showing the interplay of theory and practice, Lakoff analyzes the character of modern democracy, or "compound autonomy," as expressed in voting and electoral systems, federalism, and efforts of democratization around the world.

Tocqueville's Democracy in America is widely praised for its insight into these tensions and the solutions i. .

Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education is a 1916 book by John Dewey. For Dewey, this distinction was largely a false one; like George Herbert Mead and Lev Vygotsky, he viewed the mind and its formation as a communal process. Thus the individual is a meaningful concept only when regarded as an inextricable part of his or her society, and the society has no meaning apart from its realization in the lives of its individual members

Democracy and its practice: a general theory of democratic relativity

Democracy and its practice: a general theory of democratic relativity. Daniel Tetteh Osabu-Kle Carleton University. Democratic practice involves a constant struggle between society and State in which society demands some level of the essence of democracy mixed with some level of dictatorship and the State provides what it considers a balanced mixture. Some level of dictatorship is always required as a control function to avoid anarchy.

It addresses how the Internet, World Wide Web and computer-mediated political communication are affecting democracy and focuses on the various theoretical and practical issues involved in digital democracy. Using international examples Digital Democracy attempts to connect theoretical analysis to considerations of practice and policy.

Radical book publisher and online text library. In this book Raymond Geuss examines the different human practices that have came to be known as such. People have always given advice, made criticism, and told stories as a way to understand the world around them. Beginning with Socrates we can follow a thread as these activities begin to take shape and hold a particular form.

John Gastil - Director, McCourtney Institute for Democracy, Pennsylvania State .

John Gastil - Director, McCourtney Institute for Democracy, Pennsylvania State University, and author of The Jury and Democracy and Political Communication and Deliberation. Michael A. Neblo has written an exemplary book, exhibiting equal measures of philosophical sophistication, methodological rigor, and substantive import. What is more, Deliberative Democracy between Theory and Practice is revelatory, showing the author as a decent, humane thinker. Readers will not just learn from Neblo; I think they will be touched as well. James Johnson - University of Rochester, New York.