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Political Institutions and Practical Wisdom: Between Rules and Practice

ISBN : 9780190694333

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Author: 
Maxwell Cameron
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Pages
232 Pages
Format
Hardcover
Size
140 x 216 mm
Pub date
Jul 2018
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Cameron shows how institutions rely on rules and incentives, but they need practitioners with the virtues and character to make good decisions. Wise practitioners are not only an antidote to excessive partisanship, neoliberal competitiveness, and institutional corruption; they are an essential ingredient of any democracy based on citizenship and the common good.

Index: 

Preface
Introduction
Chaper I. Runaway
Chapter II. Competitive Utility Maximizing
Chapter III. Activity and Agency
Chapter IV. Wise Practitioners
Chapter V. Hyper-Partisanship
Chapter VI. Neoliberal Governance
Chapter VII. Citizens' Democracy
Conclusion
Glossary of Key Concepts
Bibliography

About the author: 

Maxwell A. Cameron teaches comparative politics, constitutionalism, and democratization at The University of British Columbia. Since 2011, he has served as the Director of the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions in which capacity he is responsible for UBC's Summer Institute for Future Legislators. In 2013, Cameron won a UBC Killam Teaching Prize.

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