Democracy Sourcebook

<i>The Democracy Sourcebook</i> offers a collection of classic writings and contemporary scholarship on democracy creating a book that can be used by undergraduate and graduate students in a wide variety of courses including American politics international relations comparative politics and political philosophy. The editors have chosen substantial excerpts from the essential theorists of the past including Jean-Jacques Rousseau John Stuart Mill Alexis de Tocqueville and the authors of <i>The Federalist Papers</i>; they place them side by side with the work of such influential modern scholars as Joseph Schumpeter Adam Przeworski Seymour Martin Lipset Samuel P. Huntington Ronald Dworkin and Amartya Sen.<p>The book is divided into nine self-contained chapters: Defining Democracy which discusses procedural deliberative and substantive democracy; Sources of Democracy on why democracy exists in some countries and not in others; Democracy Culture and Society about cultural and sociological preconditions for democracy; Democracy and Constitutionalism which focuses on the importance of independent courts and a bill of rights; Presidentialism versus Parliamentarianism; Representation discussing which is the fairest system of democratic accountability; Interest Groups; Democracy's Effects an examination of the effect of democracy on economic growth and social inequality; and finally Democracy and the Global Order discusses the effects of democracy on international relations including the propensity for war and the erosion of national sovereignty by transnational forces.</p>