The Democracy Sourcebook

Contents......Page 6
Introduction......Page 10
1 Defining Democracy......Page 14
The Social Contract......Page 15
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy......Page 18
Minimalist Conception of Democracy: A Defense......Page 25
Democracy and Disagreement......Page 31
The Voice of the People......Page 38
Defining and Developing Democracy......Page 42
Participation and Democratic Theory......Page 53
Polyarchal Democracy......Page 61
2 Sources of Democracy......Page 68
Political Man: The Social Bases of Politics......Page 69
Social Revolutions in the Modern World......Page 78
The Impact of Economic Development on Democracy......Page 84
Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America......Page 89
Democracy’s Third Wave......Page 106
South Africa’s Negotiated Transition: Democracy, Opposition, and the New Constitutional Order......Page 112
Economic Development and Political Regimes......Page 121
3 Democracy, Culture, and Society......Page 130
The Federalist No. 10......Page 131
The Federalist No. 14......Page 136
The Concept of a Liberal Society......Page 139
Pluralism and Social Choice......Page 146
Consociational Democracy......Page 155
The Contest of Ideas......Page 160
The State of Democratic Theory......Page 166
Democracy......Page 170
Modernization, Cultural Change, and the Persistence of Traditional Values......Page 181
Culture and Democracy......Page 194
4 Democracy and Constitutionalism......Page 204
The Federalist No. 23......Page 205
The Federalist No. 47......Page 206
The Federalist No. 48......Page 208
The Federalist No. 62......Page 210
The Federalist No. 70......Page 212
The Federalist No. 78......Page 214
Madisonian Democracy......Page 220
A Bill of Rights for Britain......Page 230
A Right-Based Critique of Constitutional Rights......Page 234
The Political Origins of Judicial Empowerment through Constitutionalization: Lessons from Four Constitutional Revolutions......Page 245
Decision Making in a Democracy: The Supreme Court as a National Policymaker......Page 259
Democratic Justice......Page 265
5 Presidentialism Versus Parliamentarism......Page 270
The Perils of Presidentialism......Page 271
Presidentialism, Multipartism, and Democracy: The Difficult Combination......Page 279
Presidents and Assemblies......Page 285
Minority Governments, Deadlock Situations, and the Survival of Presidential Democracies......Page 290
Minority Governments in Parliamentary Democracies: The Rationality of Nonwinning Cabinet Solutions......Page 297
Institutional Design, Party Systems, and Governability: Differentiating the Presidential Regimes of Latin America......Page 309
Presidential Power, Legislative Organization, and Party Behavior in Brazil......Page 317
6 Representation......Page 324
Representative Government......Page 325
On Elections......Page 328
Liberalism against Populism......Page 330
Saving Democracy from Political Science......Page 334
Unlikelihood of Condorcet’s Paradox in a Large Society......Page 339
Congruence between Citizens and Policymakers in Two Visions of Liberal Democracy......Page 343
The Political Consequences of Electoral Laws......Page 356
South Africa’s Negotiated Transition: Democracy, Opposition, and the New Constitutional Order......Page 363
The Representation of Women......Page 367
7 Interest Groups......Page 376
The Governmental Process: Political Interests and Public Opinion......Page 377
The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups......Page 385
Neo-Pluralism: A Class Analysis of Pluralism I and Pluralism II......Page 394
The Theory of Economic Regulation......Page 406
Interest Intermediation and Regime Governability in Contemporary Western Europe and North America......Page 411
Inside Campaign Finance: Myths and Realities......Page 421
8 Democracy’s Effects......Page 432
The Economics and Politics of Growth......Page 433
Rent Seeking and Redistribution under Democracy versus Dictatorship......Page 440
Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development......Page 449
Freedom Favors Development......Page 457
Political Regimes and Economic Growth......Page 460
Democracy in America......Page 468
Does Democracy Engender Justice?......Page 472
Facing up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation......Page 476
Beyond Tocqueville, Myrdal, and Hartz: The Multiple Traditions in America......Page 493
9 Democracy and the Global Order......Page 502
Perpetual Peace......Page 503
How Democracy, Interdependence, and International Organizations Create a System for Peace......Page 505
Dirty Pool......Page 510
Democracy and Collective Bads......Page 517
Representation and the Democratic Deficit......Page 523
The Transformation of Political Community:Rethinking Democracy in the Context of Globalization......Page 529
Appendix: Observing Democracies......Page 540
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C......Page 549
D......Page 552
E......Page 553
F......Page 555
H......Page 556
J......Page 557
L......Page 558
M......Page 559
N......Page 560
O......Page 561
P......Page 562
R......Page 565
S......Page 566
U......Page 568
Z......Page 569