Democracy Struggles
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Asia Struggles With Democracy
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Author : Giovanna Maria Dora Dore
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2015-07-03
Asia Struggles With Democracy written by Giovanna Maria Dora Dore and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-03 with Social Science categories.
Since 1974, when the current wave of democratisation began, the movement towards democracy in Asia has remained limited. Many countries in Asia, in fact, are not making a decisive move towards democracy, and find themselves struggling with the challenges of democratic consolidation and governance. Focusing on Indonesia, Thailand and Korea, this book analyses why democratisation is so difficult in Asia. The book investigates the dynamics by which citizens embrace democratic rule and reject authoritarianism, and also compares these dynamics with those of consolidating democracies around the world. The book looks at the forces that affect the emergence and stability of democracy, such as elite interactions, economic development and popular attitudes as beliefs and perceptions about the legitimacy of political systems have long been recognised as some of the most critical influences on regime change. The book also discusses what it is about the nature of public opinion and the processes of day-to-day democratic participation that have made these countries vulnerable to repeated crises of legitimacy. Using Indonesia, Korea, and Thailand as case studies, this book highlights the uniqueness of the Asia’s path to democracy, and shows both the challenges and opportunities in getting there. The book will be of interest to students and scholars of Asian Politics, Comparative Politics and International Studies.
The Spirit Of Democracy
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Author : Larry Diamond
language : en
Publisher: Macmillan
Release Date : 2008-01-08
The Spirit Of Democracy written by Larry Diamond and has been published by Macmillan this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-01-08 with Political Science categories.
One of America's preeminent experts on democracy charts the future prospects for freedom around the world in the aftermath of Iraq and deepening authoritarianism Over three decades, the world was transformed. In 1974, nearly three-quarters of all countries were dictatorships; today, more than half are democracies. Yet recent efforts to promote democracy have stumbled, and many democratic governments are faltering. In this bold and sweeping vision for advancing freedom around the world, social scientist Larry Diamond examines how and why democracy progresses. He demonstrates that the desire for democracy runs deep, even in very poor countries, and that seemingly entrenched regimes like Iran and China could become democracies within a generation. He also dissects the causes of the "democratic recession" in critical states, including the crime-infested oligarchy in Russia and the strong-armed populism of Venezuela. Diamond cautions that arrogance and inconsistency have undermined America's aspirations to promote democracy. To spur a renewed democratic boom, he urges vigorous support of good governance—the rule of law, security, protection of individual rights, and shared economic prosperity—and free civic organizations. Only then will the spirit of democracy be secured.
Democracy Struggles
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Author : Theodora Vetta
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2018-12-17
Democracy Struggles written by Theodora Vetta and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-12-17 with Social Science categories.
Tracing the boom of local NGOs since the 1990s in the context of the global political economy of aid, current trends of neoliberal state restructuring, and shifting post-Cold War hegemonies, this book explores the “associational revolution” in post-socialist, post-conflict Serbia. Looking into the country’s “transition” through a global and relational analytical prism, the ethnography unpacks the various forms of dispossession and inequality entailed in the democracy-promotion project.
Popular Struggles For Democracy In Africa
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Author : Peter Anyang' Nyong'o
language : en
Publisher: Tokyo, Japan : United Nations University ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J., USA : Zed Books
Release Date : 1987
Popular Struggles For Democracy In Africa written by Peter Anyang' Nyong'o and has been published by Tokyo, Japan : United Nations University ; Atlantic Highlands, N.J., USA : Zed Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1987 with History categories.
The Struggle For Democracy
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Author : Christopher Meckstroth
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2015-07-01
The Struggle For Democracy written by Christopher Meckstroth and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-07-01 with Political Science categories.
Revolutionaries, counter-revolutionaries, and reformers the world over appeal to democracy to justify their actions. But when political factions compete over the right to act in "the people's" name, who is to decide? Although the problem is as old as the great revolutions of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, events from the Arab Spring to secession referendums suggest that today it is hardly any closer to being solved. This book defends a new theory of democratic legitimacy and change that provides an answer. Christopher Meckstroth shows why familiar views that identify democracy with timeless principles or institutions fall into paradox when asked to make sense of democratic founding and change. Solving the problem, he argues, requires shifting focus to the historical conditions under which citizens work out what it will mean to govern themselves in a democratic way. The only way of sorting out disputes without faith in progress is to show, in Socratic fashion, that some parties' claims to speak for "the people" cannot hold up even on their own terms. Meckstroth builds his argument on provocative and closely-argued interpretations of Plato, Kant, and Hegel, suggesting that familiar views of them as foundationalist metaphysicians misunderstand their debt to a method of radical doubt pioneered by Socrates. Recovering this tradition of antifoundational argument requires rethinking the place of German idealism in the history of political thought and opens new directions for contemporary democratic theory. The historical and Socratic theory of democracy the book defends makes possible an entirely new way of approaching struggles over contested notions of progress, popular sovereignty, political judgment and democratic change.
Struggle For Democracy
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Author : Edward S. Greenberg
language : en
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Release Date : 1998-12
Struggle For Democracy written by Edward S. Greenberg and has been published by Longman Publishing Group this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-12 with Political Science categories.
The Struggle For Democracy
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Author : Patrick Watson
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1988
The Struggle For Democracy written by Patrick Watson and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1988 with Democracy categories.
The complete history of democracy.
The Republican Moment
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Author : Philip G. Nord
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
The Republican Moment written by Philip G. Nord and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with History categories.
It was the particular character and unfolding of these struggles, Nord demonstrates, that made an awakening middle class receptive to democratic politics. The new republican elite was armed with a specific vision that rallied rural France - a vision of solidarity and civic-mindedness, of moral improvement, and of a socioeconomic order anchored in family enterprise.
Popular Struggle And Democracy In Scandinavia
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Author : Flemming Mikkelsen
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-10-16
Popular Struggle And Democracy In Scandinavia written by Flemming Mikkelsen and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-10-16 with Social Science categories.
This book focuses on popular struggles in Denmark, Norway and Sweden from 1700-2015, and how popular struggle in the form of hunger riots, tax rebellions, petition drives, strikes, demonstrations, public meetings and social movements paved the way for the introduction and development of civil liberties and political rights. The author portrays social and political mass mobilization of ordinary people as vital to the construction of democracy, and an essential condition for the formation of the Scandinavian welfare states. Popular Struggle and Democracy in Scandinavia shows the transnational connections between Denmark, Norway and Sweden and between Scandinavia and the rest of Europe, and also contains a comparison of popular struggle in Scandinavia seen in a wider European perspective. The book will be of interest to social scientists, historians and students and researchers with an interest in popular struggles in Scandinavia.
The Struggle For Democracy In Mainland China Taiwan And Hong Kong
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Author : Andreas Fulda
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2020
The Struggle For Democracy In Mainland China Taiwan And Hong Kong written by Andreas Fulda and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020 with China categories.
The question at the heart of this book is to what extent have political activists in mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong made progress in their quest to liberalise and democratise their respective polities. The book compares and contrasts the political development in the three regions from the early 1970s.