Results for “democracy”
Slow Democracy
...but enough to matter.” The Slow Democracy Alternative Slow democracy offers broad principles, tools, and vocabulary that citizens can use to create a healthy local democracy. And slow democracy…
Why I am a Monarchist
...Well, perhaps Czechoslovakia, where the divorce was at least peaceful. We have truly made the world safe for democracy; unfortunately, we have made democracy unsafe for the world. The…
What Kind of Democracy Do Localists Want?
...other words–what did philosophical localists think of the 2018 midterm elections, or any elections in our kludgy mass democracy, for that matter? Is there a localist opinion about democracy…
Democracy Against Localism
...a postliberal theory of democracy, and of Danielle Allen’s Justice By Means of Democracy, which I read as a new theory of liberal democracy that seeks to ward off…
Occupy Oligarchy!
...attempts to make the world safe for its own democracy only resulted in miserable ruin. These are the results Athenian democracy and I suspect that they were not missed…
Liberalism, Postliberalism, and Localism: A Review of Justice By Means of Democracy
...emergence of concentrations of power, whether wealth holders, social majorities, social minorities, technocratic elites, or demagogues.” Real democracy is what she terms “egalitarian participatory constitutional democracy.” This means that…
Democracy’s Despotic Drift
...clothes and hair in times of sorrow and distress, there has been much lamentation of late regarding the death of democracy. Grounds for being concerned about the current state…
The Future of Democracy in America
...of the older understanding that democracy requires for us to “rule and be ruled in turn.” In our two political parties we see evidence of both definitions of democracy,…
The Long Run
...- among other features. The challenge for modern democracy is to fortify ways to resist its inherent defects in ways that are internally consistent with democracy. Your formulation that…
Democracy Dies in Delegation
...have an impoverished conception of democracy. It is not about voting—or rather, not only about voting. Voting is a part of democracy, but in a healthy society, it may…
Foreign Policy and the Gift of the World
...great danger about American foreign policy is that it really is about spreading democracy, or rather spreading a particular democratic institution: periodic elections as the sole basis of legitimacy.…
Fighting Demons, Liberal and Otherwise
...diagnosis of our times and offers various curatives to our ills. Pabst’s title should call to mind the recent work by Polish thinker Ryszard Legutko, The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian…
Defending Lasch, Left and/or Right
...aspirations were generally clear: he liked democracy, and believed in equality (among his last political acts were a vote for Bill Clinton in 1992, and speaking out in favor…
A Time for Local Democracy
...the politics of cooperation.” Consumer Democracy But in these days of Twitter democracy, when platforms for political expression are so accessible, it sometimes seems, paradoxically, that citizens have little…
Real Communities and Democratic Theory
...of democracy, insisting that when modern democracy aspires to an ideal of deliberation it can “[bring] citizens together in recognition of one another’s equal membership in the political order,”…
Dollarocracy: Money-Power, Media-Framed Elections and Inequality
...of John Nichols and Robert McChesney to benefit from their well-researched observations on democracy’s decay into what they call “dollarocracy.” There is gold here, mixed with dross. Democracy under…
American Self-Loathing
...the division in our souls: two versions of democracy. In the one version, democracy is rugged individualism. In the other, democracy is a gentler concern that no one should…
Civic Engagement and the “Native Country”
...people, then serious reflection on what we might call “the problem of place” is appropriate for citizens and policymakers. The natural tendency of modern democracy is toward despotism. Modern…
The Next Time You’re in New Hampshire
...to disable them within minutes of buying a new car. But Nader and his Raiders made safety a Serious Matter. When something becomes serious in a democracy, those-who-will-do-us-good take…
Democracy and Coercion
...produces no trustworthy candidates whom we would wish to exercise such coercion. The many do not have the answers, but neither do the few. Democracy is no solution, but…
C.S. Lewis on Mere Liberty and the Evils of Statism Pt. III
...of man, Lewis settled on democracy (not majoritarianism, but self-government as in Alexis de Tocqueville’s Democracy in America), considering it the least bad political structure. It should be established…
Monarchy and Regalism
...were carried out from Delhi. The republic was declared by the force of Indian leaders. King did not take decisions under foreign pressure. Nepali Congress's major ideology is constitutional…
School Consolidation and Slow Democracy
...ask, “What’s best for our democracy?” This article is excerpted from Slow Democracy: Rediscovering community, bringing decision making back home (Chelsea Green, 2012) and is republished here with permission…
On Latimer, Localism, Liberalism, and Democracy
...reform of democracy that occurred here nearly 1/4 century ago: “People ask if we’re ready for democracy. Being ready for democracy means that you still support the government even…