Democracy category: 2250 books
War and Democratization
Legality, Legitimacy and Effectiveness
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
Promotion of democracy in post-war and post-conflict societies became a topic during the 1990s. The book deals with the legality, legitimacy and effectiveness of military interventions where the international community of states not only felt impelled to engage in military humanitarian or peace-building...
They Can't Represent Us!
Reinventing Democracy From Greece To Occupy
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Mass protest movements in disparate places such as Greece, Argentina, and the United States ultimately share an agenda—to raise the question of what democracy should mean. These horizontalist movements, including Occupy, exercise and claim participatory democracy as the ground of revolutionary...
Democratic Experiments
Problematizing Nanotechnology and Democracy in Europe and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
An examination of nanotechnology as a lens through which to study contemporary democracy in both theory and practice.
In Democratic Experiments, Brice Laurent discusses the challenges that emerging technologies create for democracy today. He focuses on nanotechnology and its attendant problems,...
Conciliatory Democracy
From Deliberation Toward a New Politics of Disagreement
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
In this book, Martin Ebeling discusses how we ought to react to our persistent political disagreement with other citizens. He presents this disagreement as not only a moral problem, but also as an epistemically unsettling phenomenon, as we often have reason to judge our opposition to be as competent...
Costs of Democracy
Political Finance in India
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2018
One of the most troubling critiques of contemporary democracy is the inability of representative governments to regulate the deluge of money in politics. If it is impossible to conceive of democracies without elections, it is equally impractical to imagine elections without money. Costs of Democracy...
by Susana Salgado
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2016
This timely book fills an important gap in the literature on the influence of the Internet and new media in Portuguese speaking African countries. Based on extensive field work throughout the region the author examines the influence of the Internet in the transition to democracy in Africa, and asks...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2018
This book offers a timely analysis of the tripartite links between the middle class, civil society and democratic experiences in Northeast and Southeast Asia. It aims to go beyond the two popular theoretical propositions in current democratic theory, which emphasise the bilateral connections between...
Reflections on Uneven Democracies
The Legacy of Guillermo O'Donnell
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2014
The third wave of democratization produced a wealth of enduring social science. Beginning in the 1970s, it prompted scholars to develop important theories on authoritarian breakdowns and transitions to democracy. No one in the field was more influential than Guillermo O’Donnell (1936–2011), whose...
Democracy and Prosperity
Reinventing Capitalism through a Turbulent Century
Language: English
Release Date: February 5, 2019
A groundbreaking new historical analysis of how global capitalism and advanced democracies mutually support each other
It is a widespread view that democracy and the advanced nation-state are in crisis, weakened by globalization and undermined by global capitalism, in turn explaining rising...
The Great Democracy
How to Fix Our Politics, Unrig the Economy, and Unite America
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2019
A leading progressive intellectual offers an agenda for how real democracy can triumph in America and beyond
Since the New Deal in the 1930s, there have been two eras in our political history: the liberal era, stretching up to the 1970s, followed by the neoliberal era of privatization and austerity...
Democracy Beyond the Nation State
Practicing Equality
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Democracy promises rule by all, not by the few. Yet, electoral democracies limit decision-making to representatives and have always had a weakness for inequality. How might democracy serve all rather than the few?
Democracy Beyond the Nation State: Practicing Equality examines communities that...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2018
This volume offers a much-needed analysis of police abuse and its implications for our understanding of democracy. Sometimes referred to as police violence or police repression, police abuse occurs in all democracies. It is not an exception or a stage of democratization. It is, this volume argues,...
Power Diffusion and Democracy
Institutions, Deliberation and Outcomes
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2019
Departing from the established literature connecting the political-institutional patterns of democracy with the quality of democracy, this book acknowledges that democracies, if they can be described as such, come in a wide range of formats. At the conceptual and theoretical level, the authors make...
Design, Meaning and Choice in Direct Democracy
The Influences of Petitioners and Voters
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2016
Design, Meaning and Choice in Direct Democracy examines the link between political knowledge and participation in direct democracy in the United States. Presenting insights on the different behaviours of the petitioner, the ballot and the voter and using quantitative, qualitative and experimental...