Politics

About: Politics is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 263762 publications have been published within this topic receiving 5388913 citations.

The Good Citizen: How a Younger Generation Is Reshaping American Politics

Abstract: Chapter 1: Citizenship and the Transformation of American Society The Social Transformation of America The Plot of This Book Conclusion DEFINING THE NORMS OF CITIZENSHIP Chapter 2: The Meaning and Measurement of Citizenship Citizenship in Theory What Is a "Good" Citizen? The Two Faces of Citizenship The Distribution of Citizenship Norms What Kind of Citizenship? Appendix Chapter 3: Forming Citizenship Norms A Generational Gap? The Rising Tide of Social Status Gender and Ethnicity Patterns Citizenship and Religion Partisan Differences in Citizenship Bringing the Pieces Together The Social Roots of Citizenship THE CONSEQUENCES OF CITIZENSHIP Chapter 4: Bowling Alone or Protesting with a Group? The Repertoire of Political Action Voting in Elections Campaign Activity Contacting Government Collective Group Activity Protest and Contentious Actions Online Participation Old Repertoires and New Repertoires Citizenship Norms and Participation Engaged Democrats Appendix Chapter 5: Free Speech for Everyone? How to Measure Political Tolerance The Unconventional Evidence: Rising Political Tolerance Who Is Tolerant and Who Is Not Citizenship and Tolerance Implications of Citizenship and Tolerance Chapter 6: Is the Government the Problem or Solution? What Should Government Do? We Want Government to Be a Big Spender Public Policy Preferences Are Citizenship Norms another Term for Partisanship? Citizenship and Public Policy Chapter 7: Is a Good Citizen Trustful or Skeptical of Government? Changing Images of Government Trusting Political Institutions America, Right or Wrong Appendix - Multivariate Analysis Chapter 8: In Tcoqueville's Footsteps The Norms of Citizenship Comparing the Consequences of Citizenship Citizenship in Comparative Perspective CONCLUSION Chapter 9: The Two Faces of Citizenship Balancing the American Political Culture Understanding Millennials Tocqueville Revisited Norm Shift and American Democracy

Democracy and political theory

Abstract: This book examines the central questions of democracy and politics in modern societies. Through an analysis of some of the key texts of 19th and 20th century thought - from Marx, Michelet and de Tocqueville to Hannah Arendt - the author explores the ambiguities of democracy, the nature of human rights, the idea and the reality of revolution, the emergence of totalitarianism and the changing relations between politics, religion and the image of the body. While developing a highly original account of the nature of politics and power in modern societies, he links political reflection to the interpretation of history as an open, indeterminate process of which we are part. This work should interest specialists in social and political theory and philosophers.

The architecture of government : rethinking political decentralization

Abstract: 1. Introduction 2. The political process 3. Administrative efficiency 4. Competition among governments 5. Fiscal policy and redistribution 6. Fiscal coordination and incentives 7. Citizens and government 8. Checks, balances, and freedom 9. Acquiring and using knowledge 10. Ethnic conflict and secession 11. Data to the rescue? 12. Conclusion: rethinking decentralization.

Institutions as the fundamental cause of Long-Run growth

Abstract: This paper develops the empirical and theoretical case that differences in economic institutions are the fundamental cause of differences in economic development. We first document the empirical importance of institutions by focusing on two "quasi-natural experiments" in history, the division of Korea into two parts with very different economic institutions and the colonization of much of the world by European powers starting in the fifteenth century. We then develop the basic outline of a framework for thinking about why economic institutions differ across countries. Economic institutions determine the incentives of and the constraints on economic actors, and shape economic outcomes. As such, they are social decisions, chosen for their consequences. Because different groups and individuals typically benefit from different economic institutions, there is generally a conflict over these social choices, ultimately resolved in favor of groups with greater political power. The distribution of political power in society is in turn determined by political institutions and the distribution of resources. Political institutions allocate de jure political power, while groups with greater economic might typically possess greater de facto political power. We therefore view the appropriate theoretical framework as a dynamic one with political institutions and the distribution of resources as the state variables. These variables themselves change over time because prevailing economic institutions affect the distribution of resources, and because groups with de facto political power today strive to change political institutions in order to increase their de jure political power in the future. Economic institutions encouraging economic growth emerge when political institutions allocate power to groups with interests in broad-based property rights enforcement, when they create effective constraints on power-holders, and when there are relatively few rents to be captured by power-holders. We illustrate the assumptions, the workings and the implications of this framework using a number of historical examples.