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Free Download Jennet Kirkpatrick, "Uncivil Disobedience: Studies in Violence and Democratic Politics"
English | 2008 | ISBN: 069113877X, 0691137099 | PDF | pages: 152 | 0.5 mb
Uncivil Disobedience examines the roles violence and terrorism have played in the exercise of democratic ideals in America. Jennet Kirkpatrick explores how crowds, rallying behind the principle of popular sovereignty and desiring to make law conform to justice, can disdain law and engage in violence. She exposes the hazards of democracy that arise when citizens seek to control government directly, and demonstrates the importance of laws and institutions as limitations on the will of the people.

Free Download The Democratic Potential of Charter Schools By Stacey Smith
2001 | 292 Pages | ISBN: 0820449091 | PDF | 2 MB
Since Minnesota enacted the first legislation in 1991, charter school reform has swept the country. Although their stances are vastly different, both proponents and opponents of the charter movement emphasize its privatizing aspects. In this book Stacy Smith argues that the tendency to emphasize the privatizing, market-oriented aspects of charter reform is overly simplistic. Consequently, virtually all debate on the topic neglects, or at least downplays, the democratizing potentials of charter schools. She urges others interested in preserving the public nature of public education to consider such potentials as equalized and expanded choice, inclusive decision making, and localized accountability before summarily writing off charter school reform as antidemocratic.

Free Download Catherine Marshall, "Political Deference in a Democratic Age: British Politics and the Constitution from the Eighteenth Century to Brexit"
English | ISBN: 3030625389 | 2021 | 364 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book explores the concept of deference as used by historians and political scientists. Often confused and judged to be outdated, it shows how deference remains central to understanding British politics to the present day. This study aims to make sense of how political deference has functioned in different periods and how it has played a crucial role in legitimising British politics. It shows how deference sustained what are essentially English institutions, those which dominated the Union well into the second half of the twentieth century until the post-1997 constitutional transformations under New Labour. While many dismiss political and institutional deference as having died out, this book argues that a number of recent political decisions – including the vote in favour of Brexit in June 2016 – are the result of a deferential way of thinking that has persisted through the democratic changes of the twentieth century. Combining close readings of theoretical texts with analyses of specific legal changes and historical events, the book charts the development of deference from the eighteenth century through to the present day. Rather than offering a comprehensive history of deference, it picks out key moments that show the changing nature of deference, both as a concept and as a political force.

Free Download Catherine Marshall, "Political Deference in a Democratic Age: British Politics and the Constitution from the Eighteenth Century to Brexit"
English | ISBN: 3030625389 | 2021 | 364 pages | PDF | 4 MB
This book explores the concept of deference as used by historians and political scientists. Often confused and judged to be outdated, it shows how deference remains central to understanding British politics to the present day. This study aims to make sense of how political deference has functioned in different periods and how it has played a crucial role in legitimising British politics. It shows how deference sustained what are essentially English institutions, those which dominated the Union well into the second half of the twentieth century until the post-1997 constitutional transformations under New Labour. While many dismiss political and institutional deference as having died out, this book argues that a number of recent political decisions – including the vote in favour of Brexit in June 2016 – are the result of a deferential way of thinking that has persisted through the democratic changes of the twentieth century. Combining close readings of theoretical texts with analyses of specific legal changes and historical events, the book charts the development of deference from the eighteenth century through to the present day. Rather than offering a comprehensive history of deference, it picks out key moments that show the changing nature of deference, both as a concept and as a political force.

Free Download Democratic Quality in Southern Europe: France, Greece, Italy, Portugal, and Spain
by Tiago Fernandes
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0268207755 | 375 Pages | True PDF | 21 MB

Free Download Tom Gerald Daly, "Democratic Consolidation and Constitutional Endurance in Asia and Africa: Comparing Uneven Pathways"
English | ISBN: 0192899341 | 2024 | 400 pages | EPUB, PDF | 2 MB + 32 MB
What factors drive constitutional change and sustain positive transformation? How are democratic values recognised, restored, and preserved through constitutional change? Democratic Consolidation and Constitutional Endurance in Asia and Africa is a well-articulated response to the growing scholarly conversation on democratic backsliding and resilience.

Free Download K.R. Howe, "Closing Methodological Divides: Toward Democratic Educational Research"
English | 2002 | pages: 166 | ISBN: 1402012268, 1402011644 | PDF | 1,1 mb
The issues I treat in this book―qualitative versus quantitative methods, facts versus values, science versus politics, subjectivity versus objectivity, postm- ernism versus pragmatism, to name a few―are at the core of a lively, sometimes divisive, conversation that has been unfolding in the theory and practice of e- cational research for some time. These issues fall squarely within the province of philosophy, and thus philosophical investigation has an especially useful contribution to make. But these issues are by no means the exclusive province of philosophy; they are ones in which a diverse group of educational theorists have had a keen interest and about which they have had important things to say. The conversation I hope to join―and to move forward―is this broad and inclusive one. Philosophy of education is at its best when it dives headlong into the fray. The book borrows liberally from my previously published work, but is far from a simple compilation. The ideas developed in Chapter 7, "On the Threat of Epistemological Bias," are new. The ideas developed in Chapter 9, "Toward Democratic Educational Research," are a significant extension of the application of similar ideas to evaluation research. The ideas developed in Chapter 4, "The Persistence of the Fact/Value Dogma," are in a form and at a level of detail not published before. Finally, Chapter 1, "Introduction and Overview," weaves together my thinking on a large array of issues on educational research methodology that had only been loosely connected before.

Free Download Civil Society’s Democratic Potential: Organizational Trade-offs between Participation and Representation
by Nicole Bolleyer
English | 2024 | ISBN: 0198884397 | 327 Pages | True PDF | 2.25 MB

Free Download Nicole Bolleyer, "Civil Society’s Democratic Potential: Organizational Trade-offs between Participation and Representation"
English | ISBN: 0198884397 | 2024 | 336 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.

Free Download Nicole Bolleyer, "Civil Society’s Democratic Potential: Organizational Trade-offs between Participation and Representation"
English | ISBN: 0198884397 | 2024 | 336 pages | EPUB | 6 MB
This is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 International licence. It is free to read on the Oxford Academic platform and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and selected open access locations.