Identity in democracy

A Gutmann - 2009 - torrossa.com
… To assess some of the major issues that identity groups pose for democracy, I consider various
illustrative examples, most taken from the United States, a context that provides examples …

The consolidation of democracy and representation of social groups

PC Schmitter - American behavioral scientist, 1992 - journals.sagepub.com
To the neophyte graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley in the early 1960s,
attending Seymour Martin Lipset’s course on political sociology (Sociology 290) was a …

[BOOK][B] Democracy in the making: How activist groups form

KM Blee - 2012 - books.google.com
… activist group over time to see how its dynamics change, and by gathering similar information
on each group, I compare the process of activism across many groups. These data also …

“Homogeneity” and constitutional democracy: coping with identity conflicts through group rights

C Offe - Journal of Political Philosophy, 1998 - Wiley Online Library
In this article I explore some ancient issues of political theory in the light of some contemporary
social and cultural issues. After developing a check list of the virtues and vulnerabilities of …

Some conditions of democracy

DE Neubauer - American political science review, 1967 - cambridge.org
… of political democracy imposes two requirements. One, communication of preferences
among competing groups, must be widespread. If they are not, it will be difficult for groups with …

[BOOK][B] Democracy and difference

A Phillips - 1993 - books.google.com
democracy, with its damning indictment of pressure group politics and its powerful vision of
common concerns, while still exposing groupgroup differences and concerns. My essay on '…

[BOOK][B] Democracy

A Arblaster - 2002 - books.google.com
… of democracy, and the fierce opposition it has often provoked, showing how the representative
version of democracy … He finds the core of the idea of democracy in the notion of popular …

Groups, representation and democracy: Between promise and practice

D Halpin - 2013 - torrossa.com
… and expectations about groups and democracy, this volume aims to disentangle what claims
seem relevant to what groups. What metrics are appropriate to measure group democratic …

Interest groups and democracy in the European Union

S Saurugger - West European Politics, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
… of interest groups and ‘civil society organisations’ to the development of democracy in the …
Until the 1990s research on interest group participation in the decision-making processes of …

[BOOK][B] Pressure groups, politics and democracy in Britain

W Grant - 1989 - Springer
… to the role of pressure groups in British democracy for those … of the academic literature on
pressure groups can refer to the … work has been undertaken on pressure groups in Britain. Of …