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001380555 05000 $$aJC423$$b.O8 1997
001380555 1001_ $$aOstrom, Vincent,$$d1919-2012.
001380555 24514 $$aThe meaning of democracy and the vulnerability of democracies :$$ba response to Tocqueville's challenge /$$cVincent Ostrom.
001380555 260__ $$aAnn Arbor :$$bUniversity of Michigan Press,$$c©1997.
001380555 300__ $$a[xiii], 329 pages ;$$c24 cm
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001380555 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 303-313) and index.
001380555 50500 $$gCh. 1.$$tAre Democratic Societies Viable? --$$gCh. 2.$$tConceptions of Democracy and the Language of Political Inquiry --$$gCh. 3.$$tNewspeak and Doublethink: The Delusion of Ideologies --$$gCh. 4.$$tEpistemic Choice and Public Choice --$$gCh. 5.$$tThe Human Condition: Life, Learning, Language, Knowledge, Culture, and the Problem of Order --$$gCh. 6.$$tAn Institutional Analysis of the Place of Languages in the Political Economy of Life --$$gCh. 7.$$tThe Ontological Foundations of Human Understanding --$$gCh. 8.$$tArtisanship-Artifact Relationships --$$gCh. 9.$$tComparing African and European Experience --$$gCh. 10.$$tEast and West --$$gCh. 11.$$tToward a Science of Citizenship in Democratic Systems of Order.
001380555 520__ $$aWe struggle in the modern age to preserve individual freedoms and social self-government in the face of large and powerful governments that lay claim to the symbols and language of democracy, according to Vincent Ostrom. Arguing that democratic systems are characterized by self-governing--not state- governed--societies, Ostrom contends that the nature and strength of individual relationships and self-organizing behavior are critical to the creation and survival of a democratic political system. Ostrom begins with a basic contradiction identified by Alexis de Tocqueville. De Tocqueville suggested that if citizens acted on the basis of their natural inclinations they would expect government to provide for them and take care of their needs. Yet these conditions contradict what it means to be self-governing. Ostrom explores the social and cultural context necessary for a democratic system to flourish emphasizing the important role of ideas and the use of language in defining and understanding political life. Discussing differences in the ideas about social organization among various cultural and intellectual traditions, he considers the difficulties encountered over time in building democratic societies in America, Asia, Europe, and Africa. He outlines lessons from these experiences for the efforts to build democracy in the developing world and the countries emerging from communism. Based on a lifetime of thinking about the social conditions necessary to support a democracy, this book makes a significant contribution to the recent discussion about civil society and the fragility of our formal and informal social institutions and will be of interest to social scientists, historians and all readers concerned with the state of democracy in the modern world.--$$cProvided by publisher.
001380555 60014 $$aTocqueville, Alexis de,$$d1805-1859.
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