Future of Liberal Democracy : Thomas Jefferson and the Contemporary World by R. K. Ramazani and Rouhollah K. Ramazani (2004, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN-10140396565X
ISBN-139781403965653
eBay Product ID (ePID)7038852158
Product Key Features
Number of Pages304 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameFuture of Liberal Democracy : Thomas Jefferson and the Contemporary World
SubjectHuman Rights, General, Presidents & Heads of State, Political Ideologies / Democracy
Publication Year2004
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Science, Biography & Autobiography
AuthorR. K. Ramazani, Rouhollah K. Ramazani
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height9.7 in
Item Weight15.4 Oz
Item Length5.7 in
Item Width0.7 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN2003-065828
Dewey Edition22
Reviews"These are powerful essays exploring the complexities of Jefferson's ideas and their relevance today as liberal democracies face an illiberal network of nations. Any one interested in the origins of modern democratic thought and its pertinence to our world must read them."--Joyce Appleby, UCLA "'The Future of Liberal Democracy: Thomas Jefferson and the Contemporary World' offers a vigorous dialogue on what democracy means to different people. In doing so, it frames a key debate of our time, and gives Jefferson's ideals new life. This collection will help us navigate the stormy waters to come." --Lee H. Hamilton, President of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and former Chairman of the House Committee on International Relations. "The Future of Liberal Democracy: Thomas Jefferson and the Contemporary World collects the seventeen papers presented at a scholarly conference in Bellagio, Italy, 2002, under the sponsorship of the International Center for Jefferson Studies, at Monticello, and the Rockefeller Foundation. It may be read as a revisit after some fifty years to the controverted issue between American exceptionalism and the export of American democracy to the emerging new nations of the Third World, an issue that echoes forcefully in our day. The essays are a rich miscellany: Jefferson and modern nation-building; Jefferson and his philosophical contemporaries; Jefferson and citizenship and human rights everywhere. All these efforts to analogize Jefferson to the world, while full of perplexities, are nevertheless valuable. In the end I am led to observe that the most precious liberty of all in Jefferson's canon, the liberty of religious conscience with its corollary of separation of chuch and state, appears to have been largely 'lost in translation.' --Merril D. Peterson
Dewey Decimal323
Table Of ContentPreface--Jim Horn * Introduction--Robert Fatton Jr. and R.K. Ramazani * Part I: Human Rights, Thomas Jefferson, and the Lockean Moment * Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, and the DÉclaration des Droits de l'Homme et du Citoyen--Iain McLean * Liberal Imperialism--Alan Ryan * An Appeal To Heaven: The Language of Rights on the Eve of American Independence--T.H. Breen * Jefferson and Jinnah: Humanist Ideals and the Mythology of Nation-Building--Akbar Ahmed * Part II: Rights and the Crafting of Constitutions * Rights and Human Rights in the Modern World the Experience of Working the Bill of Rights in the Indian Constitution--Soli J. Sorabjee * Another "Springtime of Nations"? Rights in Central and Eastern Europe--A.E. Dick Howard * Thomas Jefferson, Rights, and the Contemporary World--Yasushi Akashi * Part III: Case Studies and the Implementation of Rights and Democracy * Citizenship and the Struggle for Rights in Fledgling Democracies--Mark Tamthai * Human Rights of Women in Iran--Nesta Ramazani * Iran's Historical Battle for Democracy An Interpretation--R.K. Ramazani * Citizenship and Democracy in Haiti--Robert Fatton Jr. * Section IV: Rights, Democracy, and Power * Lost Illusions--Stanley Hoffman * The United States, Human Rights, and Moral Autonomy in the Post-Cold War World--Brantly Womack * Human Rights, Peace, and Power--John Owen
SynopsisA distinguished group of international scholars, public leaders and practitioners explore in this volume contemporary issues that in some measure reflect Thomas Jefferson's ideas and ideals. They discuss successes and failures in implementing such ideas as democracy and human rights in various regions of the world. The volume is the product of an international conference initiated by the International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello in collaboration with Jefferson's University of Virginia., Tackling one of the most difficult and divisive issues facing America today, A Well-Tailored Safety Net: The Only Fair and Sensible Way to Save Social Security seeks to transform the political debate over Social Security reform by introducing the first proposal tailored to meet both the nation's fiscal challenges and the responsibility of caring for an aging population. As the first batch of 77 million baby boomers begins to collect its social security benefits in the midst of the explosion of national debt from economic recovery expenditures, Social Security reform becomes increasingly urgent. Jed Graham takes apart each of the current leading proposals and shows how all of them fall short by the key criteria of affordability, effectiveness, and fairness. Graham proposes a bold new approach that would erase more debt than any other proposal, yet avoid benefit cuts in very old age, when people can least afford them. Short on actuary speak and long on common sense, A Well-Tailored Safety Net makes the Social Security debate accessible to general readers. At the same time, it advances innovative solutions with such command of analytic detail and ideological impartiality as to merit serious study by legislators and policymakers.
LC Classification NumberJC571.F88 2004
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