| Popular Politics: Renewing Democracy for a Sustainable World Contributor(s): Shepherd, George W. (Author), Shepard, George W. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0275960072 ISBN-13: 9780275960070 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1998 Annotation: George Shepherd provides a popular democratic theory and strategy for democratic transition in the world. He demonstrates how popular democratic ideas have created universal human rights uprisings and popular movements, and he shows how real opposition is building to elite rule. Building on the old liberal and new associative rights of the democratic tradition of the Western world from Harold Laski and Jacques Maritain in Europe to the moral realism of Martin Luther King Jr., John Rawls, and David Brower in America, Professor Shepherd proposes numerous reforms in the economic and political systems that can occur through popular politics and participatory economics. Of considerable interest to activists, concerned citizens, and scholars involved in the debates over democracy and current economic-political policies. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Business & Economics | Development - Sustainable Development - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy |
| Dewey: 321.8 |
| LCCN: 97043947 |
| Physical Information: 0.63" H x 6" W x 9" (1.08 lbs) 216 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: George Shepherd provides a popular democratic theory and strategy for democratic transition in the world. He demonstrates how popular democratic ideas have created universal human rights uprisings and popular movements, and he shows how real opposition is building to elite rule. Building on the old liberal and new associative rights of the democratic tradition of the Western world from Harold Laski and Jacques Maritain in Europe to the moral realism of Martin Luther King Jr., John Rawls, and David Brower in America, Professor Shepherd proposes numerous reforms in the economic and political systems that can occur through popular politics and participatory economics. Of considerable interest to activists, concerned citizens, and scholars involved in the debates over democracy and current economic-political policies. |