Evaluation makes political science worth doing but also more difficult to do. Academics make a distinction between the hard sciences and the soft sciences, implying that hard science is the only real science: laboratory, peo- ple in white coats, precision instruments making measurements to several decimal points, testing hypotheses with "hard data." But as medical scientist Jared Diamond observ…
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…
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…
Reviewing 40 years of hard, empirical data, from China and India to Chile and Iraq, the authors show that poor democracies beat poor autocracies in every economic measure. In addition, the authors offer dramatic evidence that democracies are less likely to fight each other and that terrorists more often find safe haven in authoritarian countries such as Egypt, Saudi Arabia, and Pakistan.
Mengingat bahwa buku ini ditulis berdasarkan catatan harian beliau dan komentar berbagai surat kabar nasional pada masa itu maka buku ini seolah- olah merupakan rekaman ulang sebuah realitas politik yang amat mencekam saat itu. Meskipun demikian sisi-sisi kelembutan, ditengah-tengah ketegasan sikapnya, seorang anak bangsa yang bernama B. J. Habibie sangat jelas tergambarkan pula di dalam buku…
Dalam bukunya ini, AM Fatwa menulis banyak hal mengenai politik, hukum, dan berbagai persolan kemasyarakatan yang disajikannya dengan bahasa dan kalimat-kalimat yang nyaman, serta substansi yang sangat relevan dengan persoalan kekinian dan kebutuhan kita ke depan sebagai bangsa. Ya, dalam perjuangannya, sejak dulu A.M. Fatwa selalu marah terhadap korupsi. Bukan hanya terhadap korupsi uang, teta…
This book looks at conspiracies in everyday life, both the hidden and not-so-hidden. It examines the relationship between globalization and democracy and asks who has the upper hand in an increasingly bitter and bloody battle between them for supremacy.
An account of the party systems that have evolved in Eastern Europe since the revolutions of the late 1980s. The new political systems of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary and Bulgaria are analyzed and compared, along with the most recent developments in East Germany
This book offers a critical insight into four decades of the Indian constitution. It charts the course of constitutional reform in India from the euphoric idealism of the post-independence period, through the crisis-ridden years of the emergency, and up to Rajiv Gandhi’s brief stay in power. Written with transparent affection towards the Indian people, Working a Democratic Constitution repres…