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Author: Mark Lloyd Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 0252091752 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 355
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“A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both.”--James Madison, 1822 Mark Lloyd has crafted a complex and powerful assessment of the relationship between communication and democracy in the United States. In Prologue to a Farce, he argues that citizens’ political capabilities depend on broad public access to media technologies, but that the U.S. communications environment has become unfairly dominated by corporate interests. Drawing on a wealth of historical sources, Lloyd demonstrates that despite the persistent hope that a new technology (from the telegraph to the Internet) will rise to serve the needs of the republic, none has solved the fundamental problems created by corporate domination. After examining failed alternatives to the strong publicly owned communications model, such as antitrust regulation, the public trustee rules of the Federal Communications Commission, and the underfunded public broadcasting service, Lloyd argues that we must re-create a modern version of the Founder’s communications environment, and offers concrete strategies aimed at empowering citizens.
Author: Mark Lloyd Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 0252091752 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 355
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“A popular Government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy or perhaps both.”--James Madison, 1822 Mark Lloyd has crafted a complex and powerful assessment of the relationship between communication and democracy in the United States. In Prologue to a Farce, he argues that citizens’ political capabilities depend on broad public access to media technologies, but that the U.S. communications environment has become unfairly dominated by corporate interests. Drawing on a wealth of historical sources, Lloyd demonstrates that despite the persistent hope that a new technology (from the telegraph to the Internet) will rise to serve the needs of the republic, none has solved the fundamental problems created by corporate domination. After examining failed alternatives to the strong publicly owned communications model, such as antitrust regulation, the public trustee rules of the Federal Communications Commission, and the underfunded public broadcasting service, Lloyd argues that we must re-create a modern version of the Founder’s communications environment, and offers concrete strategies aimed at empowering citizens.
Author: Lisle A. Rose Publisher: University Press of Kentucky ISBN: 0813186501 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 342
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This study of the Southern Federalists examines their contribution to the formation of the party system at the end of the eighteenth century and to the liberalization of politics in America. Despite their belief in rule by the elite and their reluctance to develop an organized party system, the Southern Federalists are shown by Lisle A. Rose to have elicited political participation along broad geographic and social lines through local party efforts, newspaper campaigns, and mass meetings. Forced into distinct ideological and organizational identities, the Southern Federalists as much as their Republican opponents had a significant share in shaping American political life in the last years of the eighteenth century.
Author: Mark Lloyd Publisher: University of Illinois Press ISBN: 9780252031045 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 352
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Inspired by Madison’s observation, Mark Lloyd has crafted a complex and powerful assessment of the relationship between communications and democracy in the United States. In Prologue to a Farce, he argues that citizens’ political capabilities depend on broad public access to media technologies, but that the U.S. communications environment has become unfairly dominated by corporate interests. Drawing on a wealth of historical sources, Lloyd demonstrates that despite the persistent hope that a new technology (from the telegraph to the Internet) will rise to serve the needs of the republic, none have solved the fundamental problems created by corporate domination. After examining failed alternatives to the strong publicly-owned communications model, such as anti-trust regulation, the public trustee rules of the Federal Communications Commission, and the under-funded public broadcasting service, Lloyd argues that we must recreate a modern version of the Founder’s communications environment, and offers concrete strategies aimed at empowering citizens.
Author: Adam Przeworski Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 9780521423359 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 230
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The quest for freedom from hunger and repression has triggered in recent years a dramatic, worldwide reform of political and economic systems. Never have so many people enjoyed, or at least experimented with democratic institutions. However, many strategies for economic development in Eastern Europe and Latin America have failed with the result that entire economic systems on both continents are being transformed. This major book analyzes recent transitions to democracy and market-oriented economic reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Drawing in a quite distinctive way on models derived from political philosophy, economics, and game theory, Professor Przeworski also considers specific data on individual countries. Among the questions raised by the book are: What should we expect from these experiments in democracy and market economy? What new economic systems will emerge? Will these transitions result in new democracies or old dictatorships?
Author: Donna Podems Publisher: IAP ISBN: 1681237903 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 257
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Democratic evaluation brings a way of thinking about evaluation’s role in society and in particular, its role in strengthening social justice. Yet the reality of applying it, and what happens when it is applied particularly outside the West, is unclear. Set in South Africa, a newly formed democracy in Southern Africa, the book affords an in-depth journey that immerses a reader into the realities of evaluation and its relation to democracy. The book starts with the broader introductory chapters that set the scene for more detailed ones which bring thorough insights into national government, local government, and civil societies’ experience of evaluation, democratic evaluation and their understanding of how it contributes to strengthening democracy (or not). A teaching case, the book concludes by providing guiding questions that encourage reflection, discussion and learning that ultimately aims to inform practice and theory.
Author: W. B. Richmond Publisher: ISBN: 9781330971536 Category : Self-Help Languages : en Pages : 176
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Excerpt from Democracy False or True? A Prologue and Dream It is a dangerous, but agreeable, game to play the prophet, perhaps unwise; but while admitting that, I am going to do so, not because I feel sure, but because I want to sift my own thoughts. I may be told "why not do so in private?" I've done that already. Probably it does not matter what an old man says, "He is a weather beaten block waiting for axe or fire." Whatever Ideals are mine, there are few which are in agreement with the fashion of to-day. Still I am capable of looking forward. I've looked back a great deal in my life, and been a humble student of "Cause and Effect." Young enough to believe, even though it lies distant from hence, in Utopia, and I make bold to say so. I still believe in the human race. I still believe in a capacity for repentance and change of direction from bad to a better state of things. It is likely that the desirable, according to my philosophy, would be the undesirable to many, perhaps, just now, most people! Nevertheless I mean to state it. William Morris made a delightful story, "News from Nowhere"; he thought that Socialism would realise his Ideal, perhaps it might; anyway Socialism is a pleasanter word than Individualism, it suggests "Thou," the other cries "I." Thou has not been in the air of late. has been so, and prominently; of this, more presently! Some great and wise men have spent considerable energies in building Utopia. Jesus Christ, Moses, Hamurrabbi, and Mohammed, Plato, Sir Thomas More, and, when I come to think of it, all leaders of thought have played with the bricks of that entertaining place. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author: Ignacio Walker Publisher: University of Notre Dame Pess ISBN: 026809666X Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 280
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In 2009, Ignacio Walker—scholar, politician, and one of Latin America’s leading public intellectuals—published La Democracia en América Latina. Now available in English, with a new prologue, and significantly revised and updated for an English-speaking audience, Democracy in Latin America: Between Hope and Despair contributes to the necessary and urgent task of exploring both the possibilities and difficulties of establishing a stable democracy in Latin America. Walker argues that, throughout the past century, Latin American history has been marked by the search for responses or alternatives to the crisis of oligarchic rule and the struggle to replace the oligarchic order with a democratic one. After reviewing some of the principal theories of democracy based on an analysis of the interactions of political, economic, and social factors, Walker maintains that it is primarily the actors, institutions, and public policies—not structural determinants—that create progress or regression in Latin American democracy.
Author: Leif Krogstad Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781978282209 Category : Languages : en Pages : 82
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My points of view being a US-democracy believer - writing - in Norwegian at that time - the text - great parts of it already in it self in December 1998: and my point of views since then hasn't changed - only confirmed themselves: I have as long back in time as I'm able to remember searched to find: THE TRUTH. I've been searching and searching. This way can truly be given the name: the small way. Small because of all the suffering which follows with you when you walk upon it. And its' content is to walk in to a blind gate; and so out of it again; and in that way; continuously some steps forwards on: " Via Dolorous." Small is this way - because of all the suffering that follows by walking on it; but you're continuously getting cleaner inside - what I mean by that is that you are as a reward learning to divide lies from truth/black from white. Evil from good. I end this prologue with a quote of a great man in history of mankind: Abraham Lincoln: "You can fool some of the people, some of the time; BUT YOU CAN'T FOOL ALL THE PEOPLE ALL THE TIME. This is a book - main part already written in 1998 - my opinion in this matter hasn't changed - only confirmed themselves. USA is the most well developed democracies in the whole wide world. Most fargoing in just that subject: being democracy. My opinion but also says it self - the very best nation on earth. I work in United States of America done since 8th of January 1998. And I do love the United States of America. Being born on the 7th of May 1960. My heart do belong to Norway, USA, Israel and UK - in gratitude. What I do believe in is though that the United States of America has to run the race of being the leading star of how democracy be done. Most fargoing as told in whole wide world developed democracy as far as present moment possible - the dream - made 1776 is by now fulfilled. The race is come to where America wanted it. As an end of this introduction of this book: About true democracy: USA honor. I do believe in America: USA. And I do love USA. And end up this spelling by give this to USA and I do believe in it of whole my heart: God bless the United States of America and God bless the President of the United States of America. This way the book in itself is become introduced
Author: Paul Cartledge Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0199837457 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 417
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"Democracy: A Life holds out three unique research aims: a proper understanding of the origins and variety of ancient Greek democracies; a detailed account of the fate of democracy - both the institution and the word - in the ancient Greek and Roman worlds from the fifth century BCE to the 6th century CE; and a nuanced exploration of the ways in which all ancient Greek democracies differed from all modern so-called 'democracies'"--
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