Democracy category: 2250 books
South Korean Democracy
Legacy of the Gwangju Uprising
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
This new book offers a retrospective appraisal of the Gwangju Uprising by academics, activists and artists from Gwangju, Korea.
In 1980, South Koreans took to the streets to demand democracy. When the military threatened brutal suppression of the popular movement, only in Gwangju did people...
Liberia
The Violence of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Liberia, a small West African country that has been wracked by violence and civil war since 1989, seems a paradoxical place in which to examine questions of democracy and popular participation. Yet Liberia is also the oldest republic in Africa, having become independent in 1847 after colonization...
Referendums and Representative Democracy
Responsiveness, Accountability and Deliberation
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2009
This volume analyses how the use of referendums affects the central functions and characteristics of representative democracy. It provides a balanced account of the interaction between referendums and representative institutions and actors, seeking to evaluate whether referendums supplement or undermine...
The Rhetorical Surface of Democracy
How Deliberative Ideals Undermine Democratic Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2012
The Rhetorical Surface of Democracy: How Deliberative Ideals Undermine Democratic Politics, by Scott Welsh, disputes the idea that democracy has anything to do with public deliberation in pursuit of collective judgment. Welsh argues, rather, that the impossibility of any kind of public judgment is...
Democracy Promotion as Foreign Policy (Open Access)
Temporal Othering in International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2017
This book looks at democracy promotion as a form of foreign policy. Elliott asks why democracy was seen to be the answer to the 7/7 bombings in London, and why it should be promoted not in Britain, but in Pakistan. The book provides a detailed answer to these questions, examining the logic and the...
Democracy, Culture, Catholicism
Voices from Four Continents
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
Compiling scholarly essays from a unique three-year Democracy, Culture and Catholicism International Research Project, Democracy, Culture, Catholicism richly articulates the diverse and dynamic interplay of democracy, culture, and Catholicism in the contemporary world. The twenty-five essays from...
Attention Deficit Democracy
The Paradox of Civic Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2011
Handwringing about political apathy is as old as democracy itself. As early as 425 BC, the playwright Aristophanes ridiculed his fellow Athenians for gossiping in the market instead of voting. In more recent decades, calls for greater civic engagement as a democratic cure-all have met with widespread...
Democracy and Subjective Rights
Democracy Without Demos
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2018
This book critically investigates the notion of democracy without demos by unravelling the link that modern history has established between the concepts of democracy and the sovereignty of the people. This task is imposed on us by globalization. The individualization of the subject of rights is the...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2005
The checks and balances provided by the three branches of federal government are essential to nurturing and maintaining American democracy. With the guidance of coeditors Paul J. Quirk and Sarah A. Binder, this collection of essays examines the role of the Legislature in American democracy and the...
Democratic Civility
The History and Cross Cultural Possibility of a Modern Political Ideal
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2018
In the aftermath of the cold war, political commentators spoke ebulliently of the triumph of liberal democracy over its ideological rivals. Shortly thereafter, however, a surge of ethnic and religious violence raised doubts about whether democracy could survive outside Western culture. Similar concerns...
Anarchist Critique of Radical Democracy
The Impossible Argument
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2018
This book addresses the conflictual nature of radical democracy. By analyzing democratic conflict in Husby, a marginalized Stockholm city district, it exposes democracy’s core division – between governors and governed – as theorized by Jacques Rancière. Tracing the genealogy of that critique,...
Participatory Democracy in Brazil
Socioeconomic and Political Origins
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
The largely successful trajectory of participatory democracy in post-1988 Brazil is well documented, but much less is known about its origins in the 1970s and early 1980s. In Participatory Democracy in Brazil: Socioeconomic and Political Origins, J. Ricardo Tranjan recounts the creation of participatory...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
A collection of scholarly essays on democratic peace theory
Historical patterns suggest that democratic governments, which often fight wars against authoritarian regimes, maintain peaceful relationships with other governments that uphold political freedoms and empower their civil societies—a...
Rude Democracy
Civility and Incivility in American Politics
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Democracy is, by its very nature, often rude. But there are limits to how uncivil we should be. In her timely and important book, Rude Democracy, Susan Herbst explores the ways we discuss public policy, how we treat each other as we do, and how we can create a more civil national culture.
Herbst...