{"product_id":"the-democracy-sourcebook","title":"The Democracy Sourcebook","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Democracy Sourcebook 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 The Federalist Papers; 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. 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\"; \"Democracys 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":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44952275517493,"sku":"ByrdShop_0262541475","price":45.83,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780262541473.jpg?v=1770157232","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-democracy-sourcebook","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}