Reviews for Towards a Deliberative and Associational Democracy

The average rating for Towards a Deliberative and Associational Democracy based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2015-01-20 00:00:00 Philip Jones You come for the trade, you stay for the Mansiones The places found on the major routes serviced the travellers, whether soldiers, merchants or the provincial governor, and created or maintained the possibility of a Roman province that was a unified geographical entity at the macro-level. Here infrastructure needed for imperialism might be the key to understanding the geographical development of towns. Places on the route that soldiers took could have expected to have benefited from those soldiers' expenditure en route. Similarly, the provision of services at mansiones integrated these places into a wider Roman culture via the presence of travellers stopping, resting and ultimately spending money at these locations. Equally, the movement of credit in the early years of the province was followed closely by that of foreign workers. The shorter spacing of places and towns found in the British section of the Antonine Itineraries might be accounted for in terms of road technology. Whereas roads in Italy had been paved with durable materials, the roads of Britain for the most part were seldom paved but formed of compacted gravel.36 Hence, the differential in type of road surface, and for that matter maintenance at a distance from the political centre, could have required the spacing of stopping points on the roads of Britain to have been more frequent. Perhaps the need for a greater number of stopping places reflects less development in the infrastructure of travel in Britain. In terms of the development of towns and nucleated settlements, the need for traffic to stop more frequently would not have promoted the centralising of resources to a few centres, but would have promoted a greater number of small nucleated settlements or simple stopping points.

Review # 2 was written on 2012-12-31 00:00:00 Steven Archuleta É interessante ver a perspectiva da sociologia sobre desastres. Eu como engenheiro, tenho uma abordagem muito mais pragmática. Entendo que o ponto de vista da sociologia é essencial. Pontos negativos do livro são o fato de estar focado na realidade americana e já estar ultrapassado em termos de exemplos. O último desastre relevante usado como exemplo no livro foi o tsunami que atingiu o sudeste asiático, por exemplo.