Postures and Politics: Some observations on participatory democracy (Heritage, Band 124) - Softcover

MacKinnon, Frank

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802061672 ISBN 13: 9780802061676

Verlag: University of Toronto Press, 1973

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Frank MacKinnon is an urbane observer of the human condition. He believes in participatory democracy, but does not think that it or any other system will work if it is put on an ideological pedestal -- or if its limitations are not discussed frankly, and then remedied effectively.
In the opening chapters he describes in general ways the positions and strategies adopted today by people with various kinds of powers. He then examines in considerable detail several of man's major institutions -- governments and professions, churches, universities, and cultural bodies. Some of his conclusions are:
- Man has become very theoretical
- Man tends to take dogmatic positions based on his theories, so that social action becomes a contest rather than a dialogue -- a relationship among theories and institutions often rendered unintelligible by jargon and unworkable by regulation, rather than a communication among men.
- Man fancies administration and devotes much energy to entangling himself in his own red tape, often with fatal results
- Man allows himself to waste his talents and the world's resources
- Man can obviously afford to do none of those things

The remedy which Professor MacKinnon proposes is the re-introduction into the affairs of man of colour and culture. These, he argues, are not only the most practical of political instruments, but the only consistently successful means of communication among men of all races throughout all time.

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DR. FRANK MACKINNON is an eminent Canadian political scientist and educator. He has taught in both high school and university and has administered every level from grade one to the second year of university, including normal school. Dr. MacKinnon is now Principal of Prince of Wales College, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island.

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• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1973
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0802061672
• ISBN 13: 9780802061676
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 288
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Mare Nostrum Group B.V.; gpsr@mare-nostrum.co.uk; ; Doelen 72; Breda; 4831 GR; Niederlande