{"product_id":"the-democracy-sourcebook-9780262541473","title":"The Democracy Sourcebook","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Robert A. Dahl | Ian Shapiro | Jose Antonio Cheibub\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: MIT Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Democracy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Democracy Sourcebook\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Federalist Papers\u003c\/i\u003e; 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48226064728215,"sku":"9780262541473","price":6468.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780262541473.webp?v=1788769335","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-democracy-sourcebook-9780262541473","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}