Democracy category: 2250 books
Democracy by Decree
Prospects and Limits of Imposed Consociational Democracy in Bosnia and Herzegovina
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2015
The introduction of consociational power sharing as a post-war political system has become one of the international community's preferred post-conflict devices. In situations where warring polities are internally divided by ethnic, religious, linguistic, or national identity, consociationalism guarantees...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2004
This book is devoted to the study and analysis of the prospects for democracy among the Muslim ethnicities of the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), both those that have acquired full independence and those remaining within the Russian Federation. The nineteen Western academics and scholars...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
This book examines key debates on religion and democratization from three main perspectives:
Religious traditions have core elements which are more or less conducive to democratization and democracy;
Religious traditions may be multi-vocal – but at any moment there may be dominant voices more...
Democracy in Turkey
The Impact of EU Political Conditionality
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
This book examines the impact of European political conditionality on the process of democratization in Turkey over a twenty year period. Employing theoretical and conceptual approaches to the issue of EU conditionality, the author compares the case of Turkey to that of other European nations.
Arguing...
Democracy Denied
Identity, Civil Society and Illiberal Democracy in Hong Kong
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2018
Published in 1999, this book is designed to provide the reader with a detailed understanding of Hong Kong’s social and political development. It offers a contemporary, holistic understanding of Hong Kong, which will not only complement existing works but also provide the reader with a solid foundation...
Non-Western Social Movements and Participatory Democracy
Protest in the Age of Transnationalism
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
This book analyzes social movements across a range of countries in the non-Western world: Bosnia, Brazil, Egypt, India, Iran, Palestine, Russia, Syria, Turkey and Ukraine in the period 2008 to 2016. The individual case studies investigate how political and social goals are framed nationally and globally,...
Recognition, Equality and Democracy
Theoretical Perspectives on Irish Politics
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2013
This volume brings together a range of theoretical responses to issues in Irish politics. Its organising ideas: recognition, equality, and democracy set the terms of political debate within both jurisdictions. For some, there are significant tensions between the grammar of recognition, concerned with...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017
Drawing on political, legal, national, post-national, as well as American and European perspectives, this collection of essays offers a diverse and balanced discussion of the current arguments concerning deliberative democracy. Its contributions' focus on discontent, provide a critical assessment...
In Defense of Pluralism
Policy Disagreement and its Media Coverage
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2016
The work of early pluralist thinkers, from Arthur Bentley to Robert Dahl, inspired much optimism about democracy. They argued that democracy was functioning well, despite disagreements arising among the diversity of interests represented in policy-making processes. Yet it is unlikely that anyone paying...
by Chris Thornhill
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2018
This book provides a new legal-sociological account of contemporary democracy. It is based on a revision of standard positions in democratic theory, reflecting the impact of global legal norms on the institutions of national states. Chris Thornhill argues that the establishment of fully democratic,...
by Donna Lee Van Cott
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2008
After a decade in local office, are indigenous peoples' governments in the Andes fulfilling their promise to provide a more participatory, accountable, and deliberative form of democracy? Using current debates in democratic theory as a framework, Donna Lee Van Cott examines 10 examples of institutional...
by Daniel White
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
Republic Earth is an educational, social, political, economic and technological ideology that aims at the establishment of a full global democracy that values all aspects of humanity around the world. Republic Earth primarily aims to build a global online democracy using the technology of the digital...
Building a Social Democracy
The Promise of Rhetorical Pragmatism
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
Building a Social Democracy offers an alternative intellectual history of American pragmatism, one that tries to reclaim the middle of the twentieth century in order to push neo-pragmatism beyond its philosophical limitations. Danisch argues that the major entailment of the invention of American pragmatism...
by Fernando Lopez-Alves
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2000
Despite a shared colonial past, South American nations experienced different patterns of conflict in the nineteenth century. These differences led to the creation of a variety of states and regimes, from authoritarian military oligarchies to popular democracies. Using a rigorous logic of comparison,...