https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XEiMYaQcAAU The Truth About Democracy
(The Greeks)
Which of the Following Values are Important to Democracy?
- Rule of Law and an Impartial Judiciary
- Human Rights and Fair Access to Trial and Good Representation
- Fair Representation and Moral Accountability of Political Leadership
- Freedom of the Press
- Freedom of Speech
- Separation of Church and State
- Right to Protest and Assemble, to Publicly Debate Key Issues
- Concern for the Common Good
- Peace and Civility
- Moral Leadership Employing Wisdom
- A Constitution
- Fair Elections
- Fair Access to Higher Education
- Sound Religious Foundation for Political Discourse
- Proper and Fair Taxation System and Wealth Distribution
- Access to Good Healthcare
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GR-9-nB-YE What is Democracy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4IBegL_V6AA Jonathan Haidt NYU & Jordan Peterson U of T on the need to preserve debate within the university in order to preserve democracy.
Spectator Article by Public Intellectual Sir Jonathan Sacks https://www.spectator.co.uk/2013/06/atheism-has-failed-only-religion-can-fight-the-barbarians/
- Achen, C. & Bartels, L. (2016) Democracy For Realists: Why Elections Do Not Produce Responsive Government. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
- I think this is one of the most important contributions to the study of democracy over the last decade. It makes for pretty uncomfortable reading: with empirical evidence, the authors really challenge some of our assumptions about the things we expect elections to do. It’s a good diagnosis of some of the problems with (a narrow focus on) electoral democracy, but sadly it doesn’t consider many substantive solutions.
- Van Reybrouck, D. (2016) Against Elections: The Case for Democracy. London: Random House.
- This isn’t an academic work. It channels some of the criticisms of electoral democracy made by Achen & Bartels, but it’s very accessible and makes quite a persuasive (and counter-intuitive) case for supplementing traditional institutions with more extensive citizen-based decision-making.
- Dahl, Robert A. (1989) Democracy and its Critics. London: Yale University Press.
- This is a seminal piece by one of the greats of Political Science. It charts the course of democracy through a series of ‘transformations’ from the city state through to the nation state. It provides a very nice exposition of the various elements of ‘democracy’ and the different ways in which democratic principles can be applied to systems of government.
- Lijphart, A. (2007) Thinking about Democracy: Power Sharing and Majority Rule in Theory and Practice. Basingstoke: Routledge
- Lijphart has been one of the key theorists on democracy as power-sharing (as opposed to the exercise of majority rule). His work significantly influenced the development of Northern Ireland’s political institutions as a form of conflict management, but his work has had a great deal of influence in a range of conflict and non-conflict contexts.
Rowan Williams, Faith in the Public Square; The Truce of God.
Jurgen Habermas, Three Normative Models of Democracy.
Jurgen Habermas & Joseph Ratzinger, Dialectics of Secularization.
David Lyon & Van Die, Rethinking Church, State and Modernity: Canada Between Europe and America.
Roger Trigg, Free to Believe: Religious Freedom in a Liberal Society, Theos Think Tank, London , 2010
Jean Bethke Elshtain, Sovereignty: God, State and Self.
Glenn Tinder, The Political Meaning of Christianity.
Jacques Ellul, Propaganda.
Gary Haugen, Just Courage.
James K.A. Smith, After Modernity?: Secularity, Globalization, and the Re-enchantment of the World.
______________ How (Not) to be Secular: reading Charles Taylor. Eerdmans, 2014.
John Stackhouse Jr., Making the Best of It: Following Christ in the Real World.
Paul Marshall, Religious Freedom in the World.
____________ Blind Spot: Why Journalists Don’t Get Religion.
Richard John Neuhaus, The Naked Public Square: Religion and Democracy in America.
St. Augustine, City of God.
Charles Taylor, Hegel and Modern Society; (plus two books of papers Philosophy and the Human Sciences); A Secular Age. Harvard, 2007; Sources of the Self; The Malaise of Modernity.
_____________ A Secular Age.
John Milbank, Theology and Social Theory.
Rodney Stark, The Rise of Christianity: a sociologist reconsiders history.
David Bentley Hart, Atheist Delusions: the Christian Revolution and its Fashionable Enemies.
Peter Berger, The Sacred Canopy.
Craig Gay, With Liberty and Justice for Whom?
Jim Wallis, The Great Awakening: Seven Ways to Change the World.
Heclo & McCloy, Religion Returns to the Public Square.
Robert Dahl, On Democracy.
Os Guinness, A Free People’s Suicide.
Margaret Somerville, The Ethical Imagination.
James Davison Hunter, To Change the World: the tragedy, irony and possibility of Christianity in the late modern world.
Nicholas Wolterstorff, Understanding Liberal Democracy: essays in political philosophy.
________________ Justice: Rights and Wrongs.
Lewis Smedes, Mere Morality.
Ronald Sider, Just Politics.
Donald Hay, Economics Today.
Paul Johnson, A History of the Modern World.
Jens Zimmermann, Incarnational Humanism: a philosophy of culture for the church in the world: Humanism and Religion: a call for renewal of Western culture.
Walter Bruggemann, The Prophetic Imagination.
D. Stephen Long, The Goodness of God: theology, the church and the social order.
Dennis Hollinger, Choosing the Good: Christian Ethics in a Complex World.
Jimmy Carter, Talking Peace.
John Redekop, Politics Under God.
Peter J. Leithart, Between Babel and Beast: America and Empires in Biblical Perspective (Theopolitical Visions).
George Grant, Technology and Empire.
Angus, Dart & Peters (eds.) Athens and Jerusalem: George Grant’s Theology, Philosophy and Politics.
Ron Dart, The North American High Tory Tradition.
Oliver O’Donovan, The Desire of the Nations: Rediscovering the Roots of Political Theology. (part of a multi-volume series)
John Owen, Clash of Ideas.
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