Importing Democracy: Ideas from Around the World to Reform and Revitalize American Politics and Government - Couverture rigide

 
9780313363375: Importing Democracy: Ideas from Around the World to Reform and Revitalize American Politics and Government
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ISBN 10 : 0313363374 ISBN 13 : 9780313363375
Editeur : Praeger Publishers Inc, 2010

Synopsis

This unique work brings together a comparative analysis of American institutions, a tour of the world's political systems, and a manifesto for reform, offering insights on democracy that could revitalize U.S. politics and government.
The United States has always taken pride in being a model of democracy. However, presidential systems are more closely associated with dictatorship and single-party rule in other parts of the world like Latin America and Africa. Indeed, democratic practices more often flourish in parliamentary systems, and the United States remains the only advanced, industrialized democracy with a presidential system instead of a parliamentary organization.

Each of the 21 chapters in Importing Democracy: Ideas from Around the World to Reform and Revitalize American Politics and Government highlights a feature of a foreign nation's political system that is absent in the U.S. system. Chapters also draw on brief case studies from countries as diverse as Australia, Brazil, Iceland, India, Germany and South Africa. Importing Democracy explores whether American politics and government might be enhanced by incorporating a multiparty system, a simplified Constitutional amendment process, parliamentary practices of accountability, proportional representation elections, presidential votes of no confidence," restraints on judicial power, and much more."

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À propos de l'auteur

Raymond A. Smith, PhD, is adjunct assistant professor of political science at Columbia University and New York University in New York City, NY.

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Éditeur
Praeger Publishers Inc
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0313363374
ISBN 13 
9780313363375
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
264
Éditeur
Smith Raymond A.
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