Constitutional democracy

by Mueller, Dennis C.

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Title Statements

Full title :Constitutional democracy / Dennis C. Mueller.

Summary

Dennis C. Mueller illuminates the links between the structure of democratic government and the outcomes it achieves by drawing comparisons between American and foreign government systems. The questions examined are not what constitutions have been written, but rather what constitution should be written to advance a community's interests. The book explores the major issues a polity faces when drafting a constitution: Is a two-party or a multi-party system better? Should it adopt federalism? Bicameralism? Should the executive and legislative functions be combined? What role should the judiciary play? How should citizenship be defined? Addressing these questions and much more, Constitutional Democracy is a comprehensive and up-to-date normative analysis of these issues. Provocative and intriguing, this work will be of great interest to scholars and students of political science, economics and law.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©1996.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Oxford University Press
Place of Publication:New York
Language:eng
Publication Date:©1996.

The Physical Object

Description:xii, 382 pages : : illustrations ; : 24 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:019509588X, 9780195095883, 0195144074, 9780195144079
oclc:ocm32779121
LC Classification:JC423
Dewey Decimal:321.8

1. Democracy in America -- 2. Democracy in Other Parts of the World -- 3. The Constitutional Premise -- 4. Why Have Government? -- 5. The Nature of a Constitution -- 6. Federalism -- 7. Direct Democracy -- 8. Representative Democracy: Proportional Representation -- 9. Representative Democracy: Two-Party Government -- 10. The Two Systems of Representation Compared -- 11. The Parliamentary Voting Rule -- 12. The Referendum -- 13. Bicameralism -- 14. Rights -- 15. The Market and the State -- 16. Redistribution -- 17. The Executive Branch -- 18. Dictatorship -- 19. The Judiciary -- 20. Citizenship -- 21. The Constitutional Convention -- 22. Epilogue.

Subjects

89.35 democracy Comparative government democracy Democracy -- United States Démocratie Demokratie États-Unis -- Politique et gouvernement Gouvernement représentatif Grondwetten Politics and government Politisches System Representative government and represent… United States United States -- Politics and government USA Verfassung