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Les intellectuels et la démocratie
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ISBN: 2130363709 9782130363705 Year: 1980 Publisher: Paris PUF

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The nation, the state and democracy
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ISBN: 3515066780 9783515066785 Year: 1995 Volume: 59 Publisher: Stuttgart Steiner

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Democracy and the rule of law
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ISBN: 0521532663 0521825598 1107137705 0511180748 051106246X 0511307683 0511610068 1280431083 0511204833 0511070926 9780521532662 9780511062469 9780511610066 9780521825597 Year: 2003 Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,

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This book addresses the question of why governments sometimes follow the law and other times choose to evade the law. The traditional answer of jurists has been that laws have an autonomous causal efficacy: law rules when actions follow anterior norms; the relation between laws and actions is one of obedience, obligation, or compliance. Contrary to this conception, the authors defend a positive interpretation where the rule of law results from the strategic choices of relevant actors. Rule of law is just one possible outcome in which political actors process their conflicts using whatever resources they can muster: only when these actors seek to resolve their conflicts by recourse to la, does law rule. What distinguishes 'rule-of-law' as an institutional equilibrium from 'rule-by-law' is the distribution of power. The former emerges when no one group is strong enough to dominate the others and when the many use institutions to promote their interest.

Democracy's value
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ISBN: 0521643880 9780521643887 Year: 1999 Publisher: Cambridge New York Cambridge University Press

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Democracy has been a flawed hegemony since the fall of communism. Its flexibility, its commitment to equality of representation, and its recognition of the legitimacy of opposition politics are all positive features for political institutions. But democracy has many deficiencies: it is all too easily held hostage by powerful interests; it often fails to advance social justice; and it does not cope well with a number of features of the political landscape, such as political identities, boundary disputes, and environmental crises. Although democracy is valuable it fits uneasily with other political values and is in many respects less than equal to the demands it confronts. In this volume (and its companion Democracy's Edges) prominent political theorists and social scientists present original discussions of such central issues. Democracy's Values deals with the nature and value of democracy, particularly the tensions between it and such goods as justice, equality, efficiency, and freedom.

Freedom of speech and incitement against democracy
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ISBN: 904111341X 9004482652 9789041113412 9789004482654 Year: 2000 Publisher: London : Kluwer Law International,

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Whilst the protection of political speech is essential to the preservation of a democratic legal order, events of political violence and assassinations highlight the need to rethink questions relating to the boundaries of free speech in a democratic society. To what extent should democratic countries committed to freedom of speech limit those forms of extreme speech that may be considered as incitements to violence? This is a question that has long divided academics and activists alike. It has become even more relevant today, with the recent rise of extreme right-wing parties in various European democracies. In this book, leading scholars of constitutional law, human rights and criminal law, from various countries with divergent philosophies on freedom of speech, address the question of whether we can, and should, regulate speech in order to protect democracy and, if so, how.


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La démocratie dans tous ses états : Systèmes politiques entre crise et renouveau
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ISBN: 2872096027 9782872096022 Year: 2000 Volume: 1 Publisher: Academia-Bruylant,

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Revolution and human rights
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ISBN: 3515056122 9783515056120 Year: 1990 Volume: 41 Publisher: Stuttgart Steiner

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Human rights --- Political philosophy. Social philosophy --- Theory of the state --- Civil rights and socialism --- Civil rights --- Revolutions --- Democracy --- Congresses --- 323.27 --- 321.7 --- -Civil rights --- -Revolutions --- -Democracy --- -Civil rights and socialism --- -Basic rights --- Civil rights (International law) --- Rights, Human --- Rights of man --- Human security --- Transitional justice --- Truth commissions --- Civil rights and communism --- Communism and civil rights --- Socialism --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Insurrections --- Rebellions --- Revolts --- Revolutionary wars --- History --- Political violence --- War --- Government, Resistance to --- Basic rights --- Civil liberties --- Constitutional rights --- Fundamental rights --- Rights, Civil --- Constitutional law --- Political persecution --- Oproeren. Revolutie. Revolutionaire bewegingen. Staatsgreep --- Democratie. Plurale samenleving. Pluralisme. Democratische pluraliteit--(moderne democratie politieke stelsels) --- Law and legislation --- Congresses. --- -Oproeren. Revolutie. Revolutionaire bewegingen. Staatsgreep --- 321.7 Democratie. Plurale samenleving. Pluralisme. Democratische pluraliteit--(moderne democratie politieke stelsels) --- 323.27 Oproeren. Revolutie. Revolutionaire bewegingen. Staatsgreep --- -323.27 Oproeren. Revolutie. Revolutionaire bewegingen. Staatsgreep --- Civil rights and socialism - Congresses --- Human rights - Congresses --- Civil rights - Congresses --- Revolutions - Congresses --- Democracy - Congresses

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