This essay turns to ancient sources in order to rethink the relationship between political apathy and democracy. If modern democratic theorists place political apathy entirely outside of democracy – either as a destructive limit upon the full realization of a democratic polity, or, more sanguinely, as a pragmatic necessity which tempers democracy so that it may function in a workable yet watere...

A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. Contents Acknowledgements page vii List of abbreviations ix Introduction 1 1 The question: is 'liberal democracy' good for economic development? 10 1.1 The context 13 1.2 The pro-'liberal democracy' and anti-'liberal democracy' camps: situating the democracy–development debate within the general debate about 'liberal democr...

The Transmission of Democracy: From the Village to the Nation-State We provide evidence that a history of democracy at the local level is associated with contemporary democracy at the national level. Auxiliary estimates show that a tradition of local democracy is also associated with attitudes that favor democracy, with better quality institutions, and higher level of economic development. JEL ...

democracy is a modern model that united nations, governments, nations, in the last decade of twenty century have started that to prevent war, violence and it was due to of creation of international peace and security. requirement to know different dimensions of the subject of tendency of current research, as consideration of globalization of democracy and its effects for international peace was...

Representation is a key concept for parliamentary democracy. It is, however, a broader concept than is commonly believed. Representative democracy has a fourfold meaning. First, representative democracy is a depiction of the people’s will. Secondly, it is a process of deliberation and negotiation. Thirdly, representative democracy is the institutional linking mechanism between political power a...

We revisit one of the central empirical findings of the pohtical economy literature that higher hicome per capita causes democracy. Existing studies estabUsh a strong cross-country correlation between income and democracy, but do not tjqaically control for factors that simultaneously affect both variables. We show that controlling for such factors by including country fixed effects removes the ...

This article describes Electronic Democracy as an emergent statecraft model.Electronic Democracy is analyzed from a theoretical perspective that proposes edemocracy as the new millennium democratic system. In order to achieve thisgoal, an e-government concept was required. It is proposed that ElectronicGovernment is presented as the appropriate environment to originate a newrole...

The article proposed intends to analyze the possibility (and conditions) of a media regulation law in a democratic rule of law in the twenty-first century. To do so, will be presented initially the idea of the public sphere (by Jürgen Habermas), showing how it is presented as an interface between the citizen and the state (or the private and public) and how important is it in a deliberative dem...

From its inception, the Internet has been touted as a tool for political change. The term “emergent democracy” has been used to describe the new forms of participation that the Internet will facilitate. However, there has been little discussion about how this behaviour will emerge, how to recognise it when it does, and how to integrate it into current models of democracy. This paper traces the ...