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Democratic Theories and Democratization Process

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Making Democratic Theory Democratic

2023
This book addressees a timely and fundamental problematic: the gap between the aims that people attempt to realize democratically and the law and administrative practices that actually result. The chapters explain the realities that administration poses for democratic theory. Topics include the political value of accountability, the antinomic character
Stephen Turner, George Mazur
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Democratic Practice and Democratic Theory

2017
This chapter explains how political theory becomes disengaged from political facts. If the political theorists do not engage directly in politics, they might explore the relevance, the implications, and the meaning of such empirical facts as are contained in this and similar studies. Political theory written with reference to practice has the advantage
Bernard Berelson   +2 more
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Democratic Opposition and Democratization Theory

Government and Opposition, 1997
Abstract About a quarter of a century past the beginning of the “third democratic wave” in politics, what are some of the most important implications to be drawn about the role of the democratic opposition in the processes of democratization, and in new democratic governance?
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Reconstructive Democratic Theory

American Political Science Review, 1993
While the idea of democracy has never been more universal or more popular, both democratic theory and the empirical study of democratic possibilities are in some disarray. We seek a productive reconnection of these two endeavors with democratic discourse through close attention to the language of democracy as used by ordinary people and political ...
John S. Dryzek, Jeffrey Berejikian
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Fact, Theory, and Democratic Theory

The Western Political Quarterly, 1987
NE of the persistent problems in contemporary democratic theory has been to specify the proper relationship(s) of democratic ideals to actual political practices. This problem is often expressed in the form of a dilemma between the demands of democratic ideals and empirical constraints on their realization.
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Behavioral Democratic Theory

2012
This chapter lays out the advantages of a behavioral approach to democratic theory. In particular, it contrasts this approach with three more common ways of treating the decision making of citizens in a democracy. In order to bring out the contrast, it uses the notion of epistemic competence to stand in for the various cognitive skills and abilities ...
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