Product Description: Este ensayo sobre teoría constitucional comparada evalúa si la división de poderes estadunidense debe servir de modelo para otros países, como se ha propuesto en más de una ocasión. Ackerman presenta argumentos en contra de la exportación del patrón estadunidense y en favor de un enfoque basado en la práctica constitucional de Alemania, Italia, Japón, India, Canadá, Sudáfrica y otras naciones...read more

Bruce Ackerman and James Fishkin argue that Americans can revitalize their democracy and break the cycle of cynical media manipulation that is crippling public life. They propose a new national holiday - Deliberation Day - for each presidential election year. On this day people throughout the country will meet in public spaces and engage in structured debates about issues that divide the candidates in the upcoming presidential election. Deliberation Day is a bold new proposal, but it builds on a host of smaller experiments. Over the past decade, Fishkin has initiated Deliberative Polling events in the United States and elsewhere that bring random and representative samples of voters together for discussion of key political issues. In these events, participants greatly increase their understanding of the issues and often change their minds on the best course of action. Deliberation Day is not merely a novel idea but a feasible reform. Ackerman and Fishkin consider the economic, organisational, and political questions raised by their proposal and explore its relationship to the larger ideals of liberal democracy.

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Proposes an economic program that would grant all qualified young adults in the United States an initial stake of eighty thousand dollars, providing them with the means to shape their own future (view table of contents)

Argues that under the Twentieth Amendment an impeachment voted in one session of Congress dies when the new Congress opens

Product Description: Since 1989, the Cold War has ended, new nations have emerged in Eastern Europe, and revolutionary struggles to establish liberal ideals have been waged against repressive governments throughout the world. Will the promise of liberalism be realized? What can liberals do to make the most of their opportunities and construct enduring forms of political order?In this important and timely book, a leading political theorist discusses the possibility of liberal democracy in Western and Eastern Europe and offers practical suggestions for its realization...read more

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Product Description: Book by Ackerman, Bruce

Offers a compelling vision of how to achieve and conduct a liberal but democratic society through the ideal of Neutrality--between people and ideas of the good--and using the tool of Neutral dialogue