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Democracy and freedom. It ranges widely through the past and present to remind us that we can have too much of a good thing." "Take American democracy, in many peoples' minds the model for the rest of the world. Fareed Zakaria points out that the American form of democracy is one of the least democratic in use today. Members of the Supreme Court and the Federal Reserve - institutions that funda…
Buku ini memuat analisis tajam dan terinci tentang gerakan prodemokrasi Indonesia beserta konteks politiknya sejak masa 1960-an hingga kini. Fokus utama analisis terletak pada cara aktor-aktor prodemokrasi Indonesia mengambil pelajaran dari berbagai peristiwa terkait dengan penegakan demokrasi di luar negeri. Secara khusus penulis memberikan penekanan pada fenomena menarik yang terjadi antara I…
Menuju demokrasi adalah trend sejarah pada milenium ketiga. Bangsa-bangsa Asia, termasuk kita bangsa Indonesia pun, mau tak mau harus menuju ke sana. Kalau tidak, kita akan menjadi "bangsa yang primitif", terkucil dari pergaulan bangsa-bangsa.
Is Communism's collapse merely the passing of a particularly lethal adversarial relationship between the super powers - or an extraordinary chance to make fundamental changes in how nations resolve conflicts? In answering this query, Bruce Russett shows that the world's great nations now have an opportunity to realize the "democratic peace" envisioned by Immanuel Kant and Woodrow Wilson. These …
Buku ini menyajikan petikan-petikan dan getar-getar demokrasi yang tak pernah lapuk dan terus bergema sepanjang sejarah peradaban manusia. Lewat kumpulan buah pergulatan para pemikir ulung kelas dunia ini, kita bisa bercermin: sudahkah prinsip-prinsip demokrasi (kedaulatan tertinggi berada di tangan rakyat) mewarnai semua lini kehidupan kita sebagai bangsa: politik, sosial, ekonomi, kebudayaan,…
Cambodia's long-time opposition leader and former finance minister Sam Rainsy is committed to establishing democracy in his homeland. He is in exile in France to avoid a twelve-year prison sentence on politically motivated charges and is banned from contesting the July 2013 elections. In this autobiography he recounts his early years in Cambodia, his family's expulsion, his relationship with Si…
The book critically examines the working of the current parliamentary form of government in India as witnessed during the last more than four decades and highlights its inadequacies in solving the many complex problems facing the nation.
Going beyond democratic theory, March and Olsen draw on social science to examine how political institutions create and sustain democratic solidarity, identities, capabilities, accounts, and adaptiveness; how they can maintain and elaborate democratic values and beliefs - and how governance might be made honorable, just, and effective. They show how democratic governance is both preactive and r…
C. Douglas Lummis writes as if he were talking with intelligent friends rather than articulating political theory. He reminds us that democracy literally means a political state in which the people (demos) have the power (kratos). The people referred to are not people of a certain class or gender or color. They are, in fact, the poorest and largest body of citizens. Democracy is and always has …