http://blog.oup.com/2012/06/democracy-as-concentration/ Academic insights for the thinking world. Thu, 23 May 2013 12:47:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 http://blog.oup.com/2012/06/democracy-as-concentration/#comment-289175 Defending democratic politics | Pragmatic Euphony Fri, 24 Aug 2012 07:34:24 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=26144#comment-289175 [...] Democracy is therefore not a distraction because it ensures that public pressure actually matters. Elections matter because they allow arguments to be made and pressures to be vented. Elections inevitably produce ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ but at least the losers live to fight another day. If there is, however, a problem within American democracy it rests on the fact that some sections of society have arguably become what I call ‘democratically decadent’. Decadent in the sense that they seem to have forgotten that membership of any democratic society involves both rights and responsibilities; it involves listening and talking; giving and taking. No political system or politician can satisfy a world of ever greater public expectations.[Link] [...] [...] Democracy is therefore not a distraction because it ensures that public pressure actually matters. Elections matter because they allow arguments to be made and pressures to be vented. Elections inevitably produce ‘winners’ and ‘losers’ but at least the losers live to fight another day. If there is, however, a problem within American democracy it rests on the fact that some sections of society have arguably become what I call ‘democratically decadent’. Decadent in the sense that they seem to have forgotten that membership of any democratic society involves both rights and responsibilities; it involves listening and talking; giving and taking. No political system or politician can satisfy a world of ever greater public expectations.[Link] [...]

]]> http://blog.oup.com/2012/06/democracy-as-concentration/#comment-280502 First Links — 6.27.12 » First Thoughts | A First Things Blog Wed, 27 Jun 2012 13:00:21 +0000 http://blog.oup.com/?p=26144#comment-280502 [...] First Links — 6.27.12 Wednesday, June 27, 2012, 9:00 AM Matthew Cantirino Democracy as Concentration Matthew Flinders, Oxford University Press [...] [...] First Links — 6.27.12 Wednesday, June 27, 2012, 9:00 AM Matthew Cantirino Democracy as Concentration Matthew Flinders, Oxford University Press [...]

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