Andreas Follesdal, Simon Hix. Why There is a Democratic Deficit in the EU: A Response to Majone and Moravcsik

NYU Press (December 1, 2004). 267 pages. Economic globalization has had a chilling effect on democracy since markets now do some of the work that governments used to do through the political process. More than two decades of deregulation have made a healthy economy appear to depend on unrestrained markets. But appearances are misleading—globalization is also a legal and political process. The future of democracy in the twenty-first century depend...

Research indicates that people discount their own opinions and experiences in favor of those of "experts" as espoused in the media. The framing of news coverage thus has a profound impact on public opinion, and political decision making as a response to public outcry. However, the choice of how to frame the news is typically made to solicit viewership and high ratings rather than to convey accurate and meaningful information. This book discusses...

Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2009. - 448 p. When Empire appeared in 2000, it defined the political and economic challenges of the era of globalization and, thrillingly, found in them possibilities for new and more democratic forms of social organization. Now, with Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri conclude the trilogy begun with Empire and continued in Multitude, proposing an ethics of freedom for living in our common...

University of Massachusetts Press, 1994. - 222 p. In this book Paul Hirst makes a major contribution to democratic thinking, advocating "associative democracy"; the belief that human welfare and liberty are best served when as many of the affairs of society as possible are managed by voluntary and democratically self–governing associations. Representative government and corporate bureaucracy have dominated the 20th century. In this book Paul Hirs...

2010. Published by Agency for Legislative Initiatives, and OSCE/ODIHR 160 pages Regulation of Political Parties in Ukraine: the Current State and Direction of Reforms is a comprehensive report which thoroughly analyses the particular problems and issues in Ukraine’s legislative and regulatory framework for political parties. Looking forward, and based on the results of the consultations, the report proposes an agenda for reform based on internat...

Kyiv, 2005. - 152 p. Good Governance and the Need for Consensus Building – A Framework for Democratic Transition. Democratic Consensus Development. The Presidential Election and Constitutional Reform. The Election Campaign and Ukraine’s Political Evolution. International Orientation and Foreign Support. After the Orange Revolution: New Challenges for Government and Civil Society.

Glencoe, Illinois: The Free Press, 1951. 525 pp.Psychopathology and Politics- Politics, Who Gets What, When, How. Democratic Character. В данный сборник работ вошли следующие работы Гарольда Лассуэлла: Психопатология и политики; Политика: кто получает, что, когда, как; Демократический характер. The Free Press has reprinted in one volume two of Lasswell's books, Psychopathology and Politics, first published in 1930, and Politics: Who Gets What,...

Лучшие речи Барака Обамы (2004 и 2008). Five speeches of Barack Obama: Democratic National Convention 2004, Democratic National Convention Acceptance 2008, November 4th Victory Speech, Race Relations, Yes We Can.rn

This last book by the late John Rawls, derived from written lectures and notes for his long-running course on modern political philosophy, offers readers an account of the liberal political tradition from a scholar viewed by many as the greatest contemporary exponent of the philosophy behind that tradition. Rawls's goal in the lectures was, he wrote, "to identify the more central features of liberalism as expressing a political conception of jus...

Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1990, Pp. x, 286. This book challenges the prevailing philosophical reduction of social justice to distributive justice. It critically analyzes basic concepts underlying most theories of justice, including impartiality, formal equality, and the unitary moral subjectivity. Starting from claims of excluded groups about decision making, cultural expression, and division of labor, Iris Young defines concept...