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Rescuing Democracy (Record no. 27053)

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005 - DATE AND TIME OF LATEST TRANSACTION
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020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER
International Standard Book Number 9780998237503
035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER
System control number (OCoLC)1183978484
040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE
Original cataloging agency MdBmJHUP
Transcribing agency MdBmJHUP
050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER
Classification number JC423
Item number .S557 2016
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Smith, Paul E.
Fuller form of name (Paul Edmund),
Relator term author.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title Rescuing Democracy
Statement of responsibility, etc. Paul E. Smith.
264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Project Muse,
264 #3 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE
Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer Project MUSE,
300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
Extent 1 online resource (515 pages) :
Other physical details illustrations
500 ## - GENERAL NOTE
General note Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE.
504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE
Bibliography, etc. note Includes bibliographical references (pages 469-499) and index.
505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE
Formatted contents note Signs of failure -- Diagnosing dysfunction. Democratic dysfunction from fundamental structure -- Susceptibility to dysfunction : types of democracy -- A pervasive symptom of dysfunction : escalating the scarcity of natural capital -- Prescribing a remedy. The people's forum : a deliberative aid for liberal democracies -- Design details of the people's forum -- Likely reactions to the forum -- Supporting devices, performance indicators and trialing the people's forum.
506 0# - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE
Terms governing access Open Access
Standardized terminology for access restriction Unrestricted online access
Source of term star
520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC.
Summary, etc. This book proposes a new institution -- the 'People's Forum' -- to enable democratic governments to effectively address long-running issues like global warming and inequality. It would help citizens decide what strategic problems their government must fix, especially where this requires them to suffer some inconvenience or cost.The People's Forum is first based on a new diagnosis of government failure in democracies. The book tests its own analyses of government failure by seeing whether these might help us to explain the failures of particular democracies to address (and in some cases, to even recognize) several crucial environmental problems. The essential features of a new design for democracy are described and then compared with those of previous institutional designs that were also intended to improve the quality of democratic government. In that comparison, the People's Forum turns out to be not only the most effective design for developing and implementing competent policy, but also the easiest to establish and run. The latter advantage is crucial as there has been no success in getting previous designs into actual trial practice. It is hoped that this book may inspire a small group to raise the money to set up and run the People's Forum. Then, as citizens see it operating and engage with it, they may come to regard the new Forum as essential in helping them to deliberate long-running issues and to get their resulting initiatives implemented by government. Smith also discusses how the People's Forum must be managed and how groups with different political ideologies may react to it.An Afterword sets out the method by which this design was produced, to help those who might want to devise an institution themselves. The new concepts in environmental science that the book develops to test its diagnosis are applied in an Appendix to outline crucial options for the future of Tasmania. Similar options apply to many countries, states and provinces. As indicated above, those choices are currently beyond the capacity of democratic governments to address and in some cases, even to recognize. But the People's Forum may lift them out of that morass.
588 ## - SOURCE OF DESCRIPTION NOTE
Source of description note Description based on print version record.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Democracy.
650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM
Topical term or geographic name entry element Deliberative democracy.
655 #0 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
655 #7 - INDEX TERM--GENRE/FORM
Genre/form data or focus term Electronic books.
Source of term local
710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Project Muse,
Relator term distributor.
776 18 - ADDITIONAL PHYSICAL FORM ENTRY
Relationship information Print version:
International Standard Book Number 9780998237503
710 2# - ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME
Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element Project Muse.
Relator term distributor
830 #0 - SERIES ADDED ENTRY--UNIFORM TITLE
Uniform title Book collections on Project MUSE.
856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS
Public note Full text available:
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/book/76515/">https://muse.jhu.edu/book/76515/</a>
Holdings
Withdrawn status Lost status Source of classification or shelving scheme Damaged status Not for loan Home library Current library Shelving location Date acquired Total Checkouts Full call number Date last seen Uniform Resource Identifier Price effective from Koha item type
          Digital Library Digital Library Online Access 27.01.2021   JC423 .S557 2016 27.01.2021 https://muse.jhu.edu/book/76515/ 27.01.2021 eBook

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