Rescuing Democracy / (Record no. 234337)
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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| International Standard Book Number | 9780998237503 |
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| System control number | (OCoLC)1183978484 |
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| 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 | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Baltimore, Maryland : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project Muse, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2020 |
| 264 #3 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture | Baltimore, Md. : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer | Project MUSE, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | 2020 |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE | |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice | ©2020 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 1 online resource (518 pages): |
| Other physical details | illustrations |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE | |
| Content type term | text |
| Content type code | txt |
| Source | rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE | |
| Media type term | computer |
| Media type code | c |
| Source | rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE | |
| Carrier type term | online resource |
| Carrier type code | cr |
| Source | rdacarrier |
| 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 #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> |
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