Democracy - Some Acute Questions
Fourth Plenary Session, 22-25 April 1998
Acta 4, ed. H. Zacher
Vatican City, 1999
pp. 450
ISBN 88-86726-01-5
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SCIENTIFIC PAPERS
I. Introduction
Die Arbeiten der Akademie zum Thema “Demokratie” (Democracy as a subject of the Academy’s deliberations – programme and state of the work) (PDF)
H.F. Zacher
Droits de l’Homme et Démocratie à la lumière de l’Enseignement social de l’Église (The teaching of the Church on democracy) (PDF)
M. Schooyans
Introduction to the Discussion (PDF)
R. Minnerath
Discussion (PDF)
II. Value of democracy — democracy and values
Three Questions about Contemporary Democracy and the Catholic Church (Value and justification of democracy – democracy: an end or a means?) (PDF)
J.J. Di Iulio
Discussion (PDF)
Values as a Precondition of Democracy (PDF)
T. Nojiri
Discussion (PDF)
Democracy Versus Values? (PDF)
F.-X. Kaufmann
Discussion (PDF)
Demokratie, Rechts- und Verfassungsstaat – Werte, ihr Konflikt und Schutz (The conflict of values – the protection of values: democratic structures, rule of law, the “Verfassungsstaat”) (PDF)
H. Schambeck
Discussion (PDF)
III. “Civil society” as the essence of democratic society
Il Concetto di Stato Democratico e “la Società Civile” (The concept of the democratic state and “civil society” as a precondition) (PDF)
P.L. Zampetti
Discussion (PDF)
What is “Civil Society” and how does it Develop? (PDF)
J.B. Elshtain
Discussion (PDF)
Democracy as Civil Society: the Mediating Structures (PDF)
K. von Beyme
Discussion (PDF)
Culture et Democratie (History and culture) (PDF)
J. Bony
Discussion (PDF)
IV. Supranationality, internationality and democracy
European Integration and Democracy: Some Sceptical Reflections (Europe: its international and its governmental structures and their relation to democracy) (PDF)
S. Bartolini
Discussion (PDF)
International and Governmental Structures and their Relation to Democracy: Common Report on Africa, America and Asia (PDF)
T.A. Mensah
Discussion (PDF)
La Mondialisation en Quête de Gouvernance Democratique: Contradictions Nationales, Contraintes Internationales (The global world: how is it governed?) (PDF)
L. Sabourin
Discussion (PDF)
Interventions Internationales, Souveraineté des Etats et Democratie (International interventions versus national democracies) (PDF)
T. de Montbrial
Discussion (PDF)
V. General debate
Report of the General Debate (PDF)
Collegamenti
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Hans F. Zacher
Chairman of the Academy’s
ad hoc Committee on Democracy
