People's Government

Abstract

Cover -- Half-title -- Dedication -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- 1 Liberty and Freedom -- Key Terms -- Liberty and Freedom -- Power, Politics, and State -- Who Should Rule? -- The Tyranny of Scarce Resources -- The Merry-Go-Round of Politics -- Aristotle's Ring Cycle -- Getting off the Merry-Go-Round -- Equal Rights as a Birthright -- Beautiful Choices -- Democracy -- 2 Freedom or Liberty? -- Free Democracy -- Liberal Democracy -- Reprise: Freedom or Liberty? -- Two Styles but Many Flavors -- 3 Rights -- Where Do Rights Come From? -- Balancing Rights and Duties -- Negative and Positive Rights -- Individual Rights -- Group Rights and Responsibilities -- 4 Participation and Representation -- Participation and Direct Democracy -- How It Works -- Switzerland -- Representation and Representative Democracy -- The Selection of Public Officials -- Random Selection -- Elections -- Proportional Representation -- First Past the Post/Winner Takes All -- Hybrid Systems -- Preferential Voting -- Indirect Elections -- Purposive Representation -- Term and Tenure Restrictions -- Appointment -- 5 Inclusion -- Elite and Inclusive Democracies -- Citizenship and Foreign Residents -- Other Limits on Political Rights -- 6 Equality -- Political and Legal Equality -- Equal Representation: Egalitarian and Weighted Systems -- Weighted Voting in Government: The Votes That Count? -- Benign Weighting -- Qualified Democracies -- An Equal Political Voice: Access and Influence -- Legal Equality -- Social and Economic Equality -- 7 Power -- Water or Smoke -- Narrow or Broad Responsibilities -- Concentrated, Divided, and Diffused Power -- Concentrated Power and Unitary States -- Guided and Advisory Democracies -- Divided and Diffused Power -- Who Decides? Majoritarianism, Isocracy, and Consensus.