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Ethics in Congress: From Individual to Institutional Corruption

Dennis F. Thompson

More members of Congress have been investigated and sanctioned for ethical misconduct in the past decade and a half than in the entire previous history of the institution.

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John Stuart Mill and Representative Government

Dennis F. Thompson

Although Mill regarded Considerations on Representative Government as a mature statement of his theory of democracy, critics have tended to treat it less seriously than most of his other major…

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John Stuart Mill and Representative Government

Dennis F. Thompson

Although Mill regarded Considerations on Representative Government as a mature statement of his theory of democracy, critics have tended to treat it less seriously than most of his other major…

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Just Elections: Creating a Fair Electoral Process in the United States

Dennis F. Thompson

The 2000 election showed that the mechanics of voting, such as ballot design, can make a critical difference in the accuracy and fairness of U.S. elections. Thompson argues for core…

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Just Elections

Dennis F. Thompson

The 2000 election showed that the mechanies of voting, such as ballot design, can make a critical difference in the accuracy and fairness of our elections. But as Dennis F…

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Political Ethics and Public Office

Dennis F. Thompson

in government will gain insight from this book.

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The Democratic Citizen: Social Science and Democratic Theory in the Twentieth Century

Dennis F. Thompson (Princeton University)

This study examines the implications of empirical studies with reference to various strands of American and British democratic theory.

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Restoring Responsibility: Ethics in Government, Business, and Healthcare

Dennis F. Thompson (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

In this important collection Thompson argues for a more robust conception of responsibility in public life than prevails in contemporary democracies. He suggests that we should stop thinking so much…

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Restoring Responsibility: Ethics in Government, Business, and Healthcare

Dennis F. Thompson (Harvard University, Massachusetts)

In this important collection Thompson argues for a more robust conception of responsibility in public life than prevails in contemporary democracies. He suggests that we should stop thinking so much…

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The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands It and Campaigning Undermines It - Updated Edition

Amy Gutmann,Dennis F. Thompson

To govern in a democracy, political leaders have to compromise. When they do not, the result is political paralysis - dramatically demonstrated by the gridlock in Congress in recent years…

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Democracy and Disagreement

Amy Gutmann,Dennis F. Thompson

A consideration of how Americans might resolve some of their most trying moral disagreements.

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Why Deliberative Democracy?

Amy Gutmann,Dennis Thompson

A collection of essays, which show how deliberative democracy should play an important role even in the debates about military intervention abroad. It is suitable for those who are intent…

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The Spirit of Compromise: Why Governing Demands it and Campaigning Undermines it

Amy Gutmann,Dennis Thompson

Connects the rejection of compromise to the domination of campaigning over governing - the permanent campaign - in American democracy. This title shows that campaigning for political office calls for…

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Truth v.Justice: The Morality of Truth Commissions

The truth commission is an increasingly common fixture of democratic states with repressive or strife-ridden pasts. From South Africa to Haiti, truth commissions are at work with varying degrees of…

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Redeeming American Political Thought

Judith N. Shklar

In these 13 essays, Judith Shklar explores two themes crucial to discussions of American democracy: the tension between expansive political equality and persistent social inequality; and redeeming American thought for…

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Industrial Drawing: Comprising the Description and Uses of Drawing Instruments, the Construction of Plane Figures, Tinting, the Projections and Sections of Geometrical Solids … for the Use of High Schools, Academies, and Scientific Schools

Dennis Hart Mahan,Dwinel F Thompson

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the…

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