The Meaning of Democracy and the Vulnerability of Democracies: A Response to Tocqueville's ChallengeUniversity of Michigan Press, 1997 - Počet stran: 329 We struggle in the modern age to preserve individual freedoms and social self-government in the face of large and powerful governments that lay claim to the symbols and language of democracy, according to Vincent Ostrom. Arguing that democratic systems are characterized by self-governing--not state- governed--societies, Ostrom contends that the nature and strength of individual relationships and self-organizing behavior are critical to the creation and survival of a democratic political system. Ostrom begins with a basic contradiction identified by Alexis de Tocqueville. De Tocqueville suggested that if citizens acted on the basis of their natural inclinations they would expect government to provide for them and take care of their needs. Yet these conditions contradict what it means to be self-governing. Ostrom explores the social and cultural context necessary for a democratic system to flourish emphasizing the important role of ideas and the use of language in defining and understanding political life. Discussing differences in the ideas about social organization among various cultural and intellectual traditions, he considers the difficulties encountered over time in building democratic societies in America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. He outlines lessons from these experiences for the efforts to build democracy in the developing world and the countries emerging from communism. Based on a lifetime of thinking about the social conditions necessary to support a democracy, this book makes a significant contribution to the recent discussion about civil society and the fragility of our formal and informal social institutions and will be of interest to social scientists, historians and all readers concerned with the state of democracy in the modern world. Vincent Ostrom is Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science Emeritus and Co-Director of the Workshop on Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University. He is the author of many works on political theory and public administration. |
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... affairs narrowly con- strued . This awareness was deepened as I slowly learned how to read not just the words but the larger message in the second volume of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America and to appreciate more fully its ...
... affairs narrowly con- strued . This awareness was deepened as I slowly learned how to read not just the words but the larger message in the second volume of Alexis de Tocqueville's Democracy in America and to appreciate more fully its ...
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... affairs . " The term as used in political discourse might be applied to any system of governance in a context of nation - states . There is , however , a critical issue with regard to a theory of sovereignty where systems of governance ...
... affairs . " The term as used in political discourse might be applied to any system of governance in a context of nation - states . There is , however , a critical issue with regard to a theory of sovereignty where systems of governance ...
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... affairs , I am not a linguist or an anthropologist . I have great respect for the work of many linguists and anthropologists . Problems of symbolization and signification seem to have no limits in semiotics ; and I have not found a way ...
... affairs , I am not a linguist or an anthropologist . I have great respect for the work of many linguists and anthropologists . Problems of symbolization and signification seem to have no limits in semiotics ; and I have not found a way ...
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... affairs . The shift in the mean- ing of language in coming to an understanding of the meaning of democ- racy is of radical proportions . I presume that you as a person and as a citizen function as a sovereign representative if you ...
... affairs . The shift in the mean- ing of language in coming to an understanding of the meaning of democ- racy is of radical proportions . I presume that you as a person and as a citizen function as a sovereign representative if you ...
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... Affairs Appropriate to Democratic Societies Chapter 2. Conceptions of Democracy and the Language of Political Inquiry Inquiries about Modern Democracies 35 Conclusions 58 Chapter 3. Newspeak and Doublethink : The Delusion of Ideologies ...
... Affairs Appropriate to Democratic Societies Chapter 2. Conceptions of Democracy and the Language of Political Inquiry Inquiries about Modern Democracies 35 Conclusions 58 Chapter 3. Newspeak and Doublethink : The Delusion of Ideologies ...
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