Importing Democracy: Ideas from Around the World to Reform and Revitalize American Politics and Government (New Trends and Ideas in American Politics) - Hardcover

 
9780313363375: Importing Democracy: Ideas from Around the World to Reform and Revitalize American Politics and Government (New Trends and Ideas in American Politics)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0313363374 ISBN 13: 9780313363375
Verlag: Praeger, 2010

Inhaltsangabe

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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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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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Verlag
Praeger
Erscheinungsdatum
2010
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0313363374
ISBN 13 
9780313363375
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
264
Herausgeber
Smith Raymond
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