Democracy category: 2250 books
by Neera Chandhoke
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Democracy and political violence can hardly be considered conceptual siblings, at least at first sight. Democracy allows people to route their aspirations, demands, and expectations of the state through peaceful methods; violence works outside these prescribed and institutionalized channels in public...
Democracy (Made in Taiwan)
The 'Success' State as a Political Theory
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2008
Democracy (Made in Taiwan) argues that post-colonialism and Confucianism met at the historical moment when democratization and liberalization occurred in Taiwan. The familiar political science standards take little note of either Confucianism or postcolonialism. In fact, these standards are unbalanced,...
Secrets and Democracy
From Arcana Imperii to WikiLeaks
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2014
Secrets and Democracy develops a new approach to understanding the centrality of secrecy to political life. From the ancient world to the modern, this book considers the growing importance of secrets, the dilemmas this poses to conceptions of democracy and the challenges that collecting secrets poses to publicity and privacy in the network society.
Refiguring Democracy
The Spanish Political Laboratory
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Spain has become a remarkable democratic laboratory in which millions of citizens are experimenting with new forms of political expression. This book examines the dynamics of this political laboratory, showing that the upheavals it is experiencing are likely in the near future to affect democracies...
by Armine Ishkanian
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2008
This volume considers the challenges of democracy building in post-Soviet Armenia, and the role of civil society in that process.
It argues that, contrary to the expectations of Western aid donors, who promoted civil society on the assumption that democratization would follow from the establishment...
The Platonic Political Art
A Study of Critical Reason and Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2001
In this first comprehensive treatment of Plato’s political thought in a long time, John Wallach offers a "critical historicist" interpretation of Plato. Wallach shows how Plato’s theory, while a radical critique of the conventional ethical and political practice of his own era, can be...
The Spectre of Race
How Discrimination Haunts Western Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2018
How racism and discrimination have been central to democracies from the classical period to today
As right-wing nationalism and authoritarian populism gain momentum across the world, liberals, and even some conservatives, worry that democratic principles are under threat. In The Spectre of...
The Burden of Democracy
The Claims of Culture, Public Culture, and Democratic Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2011
In The Burden of Democracy: The Claims of Cultures and Public Culture, Geneviève Souillac offers an original contribution to the debate on contemporary democratic ethics and vindicates the universal development of democracy. This book argues that a public culture articulated around the three principles...
China and Democracy
Reconsidering the Prospects for a Democratic China
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2014
This timely collection brings together many well-known scholars to systematically explore China's current government and assess that transition toward democracy. The contributors seek to bridge the gap between normative theories of democracy and empirical studies of China's political development by...
by Thomas A. Spragens
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 1990
Language: English
Release Date: July 20, 1990
Reason and Democracy breaks new ground in providing a plausible philosophical basis for the communitarian view of a healthy democracy as the rational pursuit of common purposes by free and equal citizens. Thomas A. Spragens Jr. argues that the most persistent paradigms of Western political rationality...
Democracy and Pluralism
The Political Thought of William E. Connolly
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2009
William E. Connolly’s political theory forms a distinct and influential contribution to contemporary debates about the nature and prospects of democratic life in the twenty-first century. His original conceptualisations of pluralism, naturalism, the politics of the body, religion, secularism and...
Securing Democracy
Political Parties and Democratic Consolidation in Southern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2016
When this book first published in 1990, several ‘new’ democracies were emerging in Southern Europe. Italy, Portugal, Spain and Greece were generally seen as conforming to the western European model of liberal democracy. But the process of democratization is a gradual one, and each national democracy...
by P.S. Khare
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2010
Social democracy should also be seen as the most successful ideology and movement of the twentieth century its principals and policies under girded the most prosperous and harmonious period in European history by reconciling thing that had hitherto seemed incompatible a well functioning capitalist System, democracy, and social stability.
by James W. McGuire
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2010
Why do some societies fare well, and others poorly, at reducing the risk of early death? Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America finds that the public provision of basic health care and other inexpensive social services has reduced mortality rapidly even in tough economic circumstances,...