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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Dennis C Mueller |
| ISBN: | 019509588X 9780195095883 |
| OCLC Number: | 32779121 |
| Description: | xii, 382 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Democracy in America -- 2. Democracy in Other Parts of the World -- 3. The Constitutional Premise -- 4. Why Have Government? -- 5. The Nature of a Constitution -- 6. Federalism -- 7. Direct Democracy -- 8. Representative Democracy: Proportional Representation -- 9. Representative Democracy: Two-Party Government -- 10. The Two Systems of Representation Compared -- 11. The Parliamentary Voting Rule -- 12. The Referendum -- 13. Bicameralism -- 14. Rights -- 15. The Market and the State -- 16. Redistribution -- 17. The Executive Branch -- 18. Dictatorship -- 19. The Judiciary -- 20. Citizenship -- 21. The Constitutional Convention -- 22. Epilogue. |
| Responsibility: | Dennis C. Mueller. |
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Abstract:
Dennis C. Mueller illuminates the links between the structure of democratic government and the outcomes it achieves by drawing comparisons between American and foreign government systems. The questions examined are not what constitutions have been written, but rather what constitution should be written to advance a community's interests. The book explores the major issues a polity faces when drafting a constitution: Is a two-party or a multi-party system better? Should it adopt federalism? Bicameralism? Should the executive and legislative functions be combined? What role should the judiciary play? How should citizenship be defined? Addressing these questions and much more, Constitutional Democracy is a comprehensive and up-to-date normative analysis of these issues. Provocative and intriguing, this work will be of great interest to scholars and students of political science, economics and law.
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