Democracy

28 Jun 2008 15:29

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And science. Export from Europe. Indigenous outside Europe? (Yes: see Muhlberg.) In tribal and especially in nomadic cultures (like the proto-Indo-Europeans)? And non-European philosophies. Pluralism, secularism, liberty. Representative and direct. And telecommunications. Democratic deliberation as a mechanism for collective cognition.

Recommended (painfully inadequate):
• Philip Age, "Supporting the Intellectual Life of a Democratic Society," Ethics and Information Technology, 3:4 (2001): 289--298 [draft]
• Gianpaolo Baiocchi, "The Citizens of Porto Alegre", Boston Review March-April 2006
• Robert A. Dahl, A Preface to Economic Democracy
• Michael X. Delli Carpini, Fay Lomax Cook and Lawrence R. Jacobs, "Public Deliberation, Discursive Participation, and Citizen Engagement: A Review of the Empirical Literature", Annual Review of Political Science 7 (2004): 315--344
• John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems
• Charles Lindblom
  • The Intelligence of Democracy
  • The Market System: What It Is, How It Works, and What to Make of It
• Steve Muhlberg, The World History of Democracy and Democracy in Ancient India
• Karl Popper, The Open Society and Its Enemies
• Jennifer Tolbert Roberts, Athens on Trial: The Antidemocratic Tradition in Western Thought
• Amartya Sen, "Democracy and Its Global Roots" [link]
• Joseph Stiglitz
  • Democratic Development as the Fruits of Labor
  • On Liberty, the Right to Know, and Public Discourse: The Role of Transparency in Public Life
• Charles Tilly Democracy [Blurb. A really good historical and sociological look at the mechanisms by which regimes become more, or less, democratic.]

To read:
• Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy
• Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Militants and Citizens: The Politics of Participation in Porto Alegre
• Nancy Bermeo, Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry and the Breakdown of Democracy [Argues that "democratic collapses are caused less by changes in popular preferences than by the actions of political elites who polarize themselves and mistake the actions of a few for the preferences of the many." Introduction.]
• William T. Bernhard and David Leblang, Democratic Processes and Financial Markets: Pricing Politics [Blurb]
• James Bohman
  • Public Deliberation: Pluralism, Complexity, and Democracy ["Shows how democratic theory and democratic practice can be remade to face new challenges, and proposes a model of public deliberation that will allow expansions of democratic practice, even in the face of increasing pluralism, inequality, and social complexity."]
  • Democracy across Borders: From Demos to Demoi [Blurb]
• Robert Alan Dahl, How Democratic Is the American Constitution?
• Matthew A. Crenson and Benjamin Ginsberg, Downsizing Democracy: How America Sidelined Its Citizens and Privatized Its Public
• Barbara Cruikshank, The Will to Empower: Democratic Citizens and Other Subjects ["Considers the question of how liberal democracies produce citizens who are capable of governing themselves, rethinking the relationship between welfare and citizenship, democracy and despotism, and subjectivity and subjection."]
• Patrick Deneen, Democratic Faith [Blurb, intro]
• Eley, Forging Democracy
• David M. Estlund, Democratic Authority: A Philosophical Framework
• Yi Feng, Democracy, Governance, and Economic Performance: Theory and Evidence [Blurb]
• Archon Fung
  • "Associations and Democracy: Between Theories, Hopes, and Realities", Annual Review of Sociology 29 (2003): 515--539
  • Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy [Blurb, ch. 1]
• Archon Fung and Erik Olin Wright (eds.), Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance
• John David Funge, "Journal of New Democratic Methods: An Introduction", cs.CY/0408048 [Probably crazy, but deserves a look at some point]
• John Gastil, By Popular Demand: Revitalizing Representative Democracy through Deliberative Elections
• Paul Edward Gottfried, After Liberalism: Mass Democracy in the Managerial State
• William Graebner, The Engineering of Consent: Democracy and Authority in Twentieth-Century America
• Judith Gruber, Controlling Bureaucracies: Dilemmas in Democratic Governance [Online]
• Thom Hartmann, What Would Jefferson Do? [Great title, if nothing else]
• David Held, Democracy and the Global Order: From the Modern State to Cosmopolitan Governance
• Robert Huckfeldt, Paul E. Johnson and John Sprague, Political Disagreement: The Survival of Diverse Opinions within Communication Networks
• Vincent Hutchings, Public Opinion and Democratic Accountability: How Citizens Learn about Politics [blurb]
• Jack Knight and James Johnson, "Inquiry into Democracy: What Might a Pragmatist Make of Rational Choice Theories?", American Journal of Political Science 43 (1999): 566--589 [JSTOR]
• Leif Lewin, Democratic Accountability: Why Choice in Politics Is Both Possible and Necessary [Blurb]
• Charles Lipson, Reliable Partners: How Democracies Have Made a Separate Peace [blurb]
• Arthur Lupia and Matthew McCubbins, The Democratic Dilemma: Can Citizens Learn What They Need to Know?
• Arthur Lupia and John G. Matsusaka, "Direct Democracy: New Approaches to Old Questions", Annual Review of Political Science 7 (2004): 463--482 [Abstract: "Until recently, direct democracy scholarship was primarily descriptive or normative. Much of it sought to highlight the processes' shortcomings. We describe new research that examines direct democracy from a more scientific perspective. We organize the discussion around four 'old' questions that have long been at the heart of the direct democracy debate: Are voters competent? What role does money play? How does direct democracy affect policy? Does direct democracy benefit the many or the few? We find that recent breakthroughs in theory and empirical analysis paint a comparatively positive picture of the initiative and referendum. For example, voters are more competent, and the relationship between money and power in direct democracy is less nefarious, than many observers allege. More new studies show that the mere presence of direct democracy induces sitting legislatures to govern more effectively."]
• James Macdonald, A Free Nation Deep in Debt: The Financial Roots of Democracy [Blurb, intro]
• Gerry Mackie, Democracy Defended [blurb]
• Giandomenico Majone, Evidence, Argument, and Persuasion in the Policy Process
• Pierre Manent, A World Beyond Politics? A Defense of the Nation-State [Blurb, intro]
• Michael Mann, The Dark Side of Democracy: Explaining Ethnic Cleansing
• J. Mansbridge, Beyond Adversary Democracy
• McMahon, Authority and Democracy
• T. Mendelberg, "The deliberative citizen: theory and evidence", in M. X. Delli Carpini, L. Huddy and R. Shapiro, eds., Research in Micropolitics: Political Decisionmaking, Deliberation and Participation 6 (2002): 151--93 [Review of work on social psychology of group decision-making and argumentation relevant to democratic deliberation]
• Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak, "Democracy, Volatility and Economic Development", The Review of Economics and Statistics 87 (2005): 348--361
• Diana C. Mutz, Hearing the Other Side: Deliberative versus Participatory Democracy [blurb]
• Neil Netanel, "Is the Commercial Mass Media Necessary, or Even Desirable, for Liberal Democracy?" cs.CY/0109092
• Beth Simone Noveck, "A Democracy of Groups", First Monday November 2005
• Josiah Ober, Athenian Legacies: Essays of the Politics of Going on Together [Blurb, ch. 1]
• Conor O'Dwyer, Runaway State-Building: Patronage Politics and Democratic Development
• Marina S. Ottaway, Democracy Challenged: The Rise of Semi-Authoritarianism
• Adam Przeworski, Sustainable Democracy [blurb]
• Adam Przeworski et al., Democracy and Development: Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950--1990 [Blurb]
• Henry S. Richardson, Democratic Automony: Public Reasoning about the Ends of Policy
• John E. Roemer, Democracy, Education, and Equality
• Michael Saward (ed.), Democratic Innovation: Deliberation, Representation, and Association
• Cass R. Sunstein, Why Societies Need Dissent
• Daniel Treisman, The Architecture of Government: Rethinking Political Decentralization [blurb]
• Frank Vibert, The Rise of the Unelected: Democracy and the New Separation of Powers [blurb]
• Leonard Wantchekon, "The Paradox of Warlord Democracy: A Theoretical Investigation", American Political Science Review 98 (2004): 17--33 [When is liberty born from the quarrels of tyrants?]
• Mark E. Warren, Democracy and Association [Chapter 1]
• Donald A. Wittman, The Myth of Democratic Failure: Why Political Institutions Are Efficient [Blurb]
• David Zaret, Origins of Democratic Culture: Printing, Petitions, andthe Public Sphere in Early-Modern England