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Democracy Defended
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Democracy Defended
Is there a public good? A prevalent view in political science is that democracy is unavoidably chaotic, arbitrary, meaningless, and impossible. Such scepticism began with Condorcet in the eighteenth century, and continued most notably with Arrow and Riker in the twentieth century. In this powerful book, Gerry Mackie confronts and subdues these long-standing doubts about democratic governance. Problems of cycling, agenda control, strategic voting, and dimensional manipulation are not sufficiently harmful, frequent, or irremediable, he argues, to be of normative concern. Mackie also examines every serious empirical illustration of cycling and instability, including Rikers famous argument that the US Civil War was due to arbitrary dimensional manipulation. Almost every empirical claim is erroneous, and none is normatively troubling, Mackie says. This spirited defence of democratic institutions should prove both provocative and influential.
Deliberative Democracy
This volume assesses the strengths and weaknesses of deliberative democracy.
Applied Aquatic Ecosystem Concepts
W. Merritt, Professo
Collective Wisdom
The contributors to this volume discuss and for the most part challenge whether many minds can be wiser than one.
Female "circumcision" in Africa
To ban excision in Meru, Kenya, Lynn Thomas
Rational Choice and Democratic Deliberation
This book offers a comprehensive and sustained critique of theories of deliberative democracy.
Spider-Man Vs. Mysterio
Collects Amazing Spider-Man (1963) #13, #66-67 And #141-142; Web Of Spider-Man (1985) #90; Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man (2005) #11-13; Amazing Spider-Man (1999) #618-620; And Material From Peter Parker, The Spectacular Spider-Man (1976) #50-51. When Spider-Man battles Mysterio, the stakes are far more deadly than just smoke and mirrors! Find out exactly how dangerous the master of illusion can be in this collection of Spideys greatest showdowns with one of his oldest foes! Relive Quentin Becks sinister, Steve Ditko-drawn debut and larger-than-life battles illustrated by John Romita Sr., Ross Andru, Marcos Martin and more! Mysterios mists and mysteries plague Peter Parker in wicked ways, from shrinking him to six inches tall to seemingly summoning all of Spideys greatest foes! But is it always Beck under the iconic fishbowl helmet or are there multiple Mysterios? And can even death stop his deceptions?!
Millennial Reflections on International Studies
Forty-five prominent scholars engage in self-critical, state-of-the-art reflection on international studies to stimulate debates about successes and failures and to address the larger question of progress in the discipline. Written especially for the collection, these essays are in hardcover in the form of an easy-to-use handbook, and in paperback as a number of separate titles, each of which consists of a particular thematic cluster to merge with the range of topics taught in undergraduate and graduate courses in international studies. The themes addressed are realism, institutionalism, critical perspectives, feminist theory and gender studies, methodology (formal modeling, quantitative, an...
Human Rights Education
Bringing together the voices of those deeply engaged in the politics and possibilities of human rights education, Monisha Bajaj's Human Rights Education shapes our understanding of its practices and processes and demonstrates how it has come to be a meaningful field of scholarship, policy, curricular reform, and pedagogy.
