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Whose Democracy
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Author : Sabrina P. Ramet
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 1997
Whose Democracy written by Sabrina P. Ramet and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with History categories.
The years since the collapse of communism in 1989 have witnessed a dangerous renewal of religious intolerance and nationalist demands across Eastern Europe. In this provocative application of moral philosophy to the analysis of contemporary political processes in the region, Sabrina Ramet draws upon the literature of Natural Law to demonstrate that liberal democracy depends on a delicate balance between individual and societal rights. Exploring the situation of Hungarians in Slovakia, Albanians in Kosovo, theoretically-inclined Catholic bishops in Poland, Serbs in Croatia, and contending forces in post-Dayton Bosnia, Ramet contends that the terms of dispute in these cases can be deceptive. She illustrates that claims made on the basis of what she calls the doctrine of collective rights actually subvert the liberal democratic project.
Who S Who In Democracy
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Author : Seymour Martin Lipset
language : en
Publisher: CQ-Roll Call Group Books
Release Date : 1997
Who S Who In Democracy written by Seymour Martin Lipset and has been published by CQ-Roll Call Group Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1997 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Who's who in democracy / Seymour Martin Lipset, editor in chief.
Whose Government Is It
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Author : Tam, Henry
language : en
Publisher: Policy Press
Release Date : 2019-02-27
Whose Government Is It written by Tam, Henry and has been published by Policy Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-02-27 with Political Science categories.
This book brings together leading figures in democratic reform and civic engagement to show why and how better state-citizen cooperation is necessary for achieving positive social change. Their contributions demonstrate that, while protest and non-state action may have their place, citizens must also work effectively with public bodies to secure sustainable improvements. The authors explain why the problem of civic disengagement poses a major threat, highlight what actions can be taken, and suggest how the underlying obstacles to democratic cooperation between citizens and state institutions can be overcome across a range of policy areas and in varied national contexts.
Whose Europe
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Author : Dennis Smith
language : en
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Release Date : 2000-02-21
Whose Europe written by Dennis Smith and has been published by Wiley-Blackwell this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-02-21 with Political Science categories.
A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of democracy. How can the European Union be made more democratic? In whose Europe, a team of international scholars identifies barriers to further democratisation, explore potential bridges to greater democratic participation, and analyse the long term social processes shaping the new Europe.
Democracy In Africa
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1995
Democracy In Africa written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Africa categories.
The Search For Arab Democracy
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Author : Larbi Sadiki
language : en
Publisher: C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS
Release Date : 2004
The Search For Arab Democracy written by Larbi Sadiki and has been published by C. HURST & CO. PUBLISHERS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Political Science categories.
How to be a democrat and a Muslim at the same time is the subject of ongoing controversy. This book maps out the variety of voices contesting Islam and democracy in the Arab world, insisting that neither category can be taken as unitary or fixed. In the Arab Middle East, the contestover which democracy, whose democracy, and how much democracy takes place within an existing contest over the degree of preeminence that which slam, whose Islam, and how much Islam should be given in the political and cultural sphere. There is a Democracy and there are democracies. There is an Islam and there are Islams. Larbi Sadiki deploys the conceptual tools of contemporary Western political philosophy and theory to articulate and defend some provocative theses.
Whose Nation
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Author : John Foster
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Whose Nation written by John Foster and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Communism categories.
What Is Democracy
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Author : Alain Touraine
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2018-02-07
What Is Democracy written by Alain Touraine and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-07 with Political Science categories.
In this sequel to A Critique of Modernity, Alain Touraine questions the social and cultural content of democracy today. At a time when state power is being increasingly eroded by the economic might of transnational capital, what possible value can we ascribe to a democratic idea that is defined merely as a set of guarantees against the totalitarian state?If democracy is to survive in the postcommunist world, Touraine argues, it must accomplish two urgent goals: It must somehow protect the power of the nation-state at the same time as it limits that power (for only the state has sufficient means to counterbalance the global corporate wielders of money and information); and it must reconcile social diversity with social unity and individual liberty with integration.This is not merely a philosophical problem but a dilemma whose resolution will dramatically affect the immediate future of people everywhere. If we want a resolution in democracy's favor, then it is time, in Touraine's view, for us to redefine democracy in terms of active intervention rather than mere passive institution. To preserve the power and effectiveness of our states and societies, we must make visible strides?and soon?away from a politics of particularity and toward the integration and balancing of women and minorities, of immigrants, of rich and poor. If our states become too weakened, too debased by the politics of competing identities and interest groups, we will one day find ourselves without the means to protect the very values we believe we are fighting to uphold.
Good Government
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Author : Pierre Rosanvallon
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2018-03-09
Good Government written by Pierre Rosanvallon and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-03-09 with Political Science categories.
Few would disagree that Western democracies are experiencing a crisis of representation. In the United States, gerrymandering and concentrated political geographies have placed the Congress and state legislatures in a stranglehold that is often at odds with public opinion. Campaign financing ensures that only the affluent have voice in legislation. Europeans, meanwhile, increasingly see the European Union as an anti-democratic body whose “diktats” have no basis in popular rule. The response, however, has not been an effective pursuit of better representation. In Good Government, Pierre Rosanvallon examines the long history of the alternative to which the public has gravitated: the empowered executive. Rosanvallon argues that, faced with everyday ineptitude in governance, people become attracted to strong leaders and bold executive action. If these fail, they too often want even stronger personal leadership. Whereas nineteenth-century liberals and reformers longed for parliamentary sovereignty, nowadays few contest the “imperial presidency.” Rosanvallon traces this history from the Weimar Republic to Charles De Gaulle’s “exceptional” presidency to the Bush-Cheney concentration of executive power. Europeans rebelling against the technocratic EU and Americans fed up with the “administrative state” have turned to charismatic figures, from Donald Trump to Viktor Orbán, who tout personal strength as their greatest asset. This is not just a right-wing phenomenon, though, as liberal contentment with Obama’s drone war demonstrates. Rosanvallon makes clear that contemporary “presidentialism” may reflect the particular concerns of the moment, but its many precursors demonstrate that democracy has always struggled with tension between popular government and concentrated authority.
Whose Authority
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Author : Michael Lavalette
language : en
Publisher: O Books
Release Date : 2011-05
Whose Authority written by Michael Lavalette and has been published by O Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-05 with Democracy categories.
This book looks at the neo-liberal assault on local government and local democracy. The author makes two main arguments. First, that the neo-liberal mantra of privatisation, marketisation and the small state have led to a significant dilution of local service provision to the detriment of some of the poorest and most vulnerable communities in Britain. The shrinking of the local state has also reduced the role of local councillors and undermined their position as democratic representatives of their communities. The local state increasingly looks like an example of what the philosopher Sami Amin calls shallow democracy, a system that has a democratic veneer but one where real processes of democratisation and accountability are marginalised and real power and authority rests with unelected professional officers and representatives of local business interests. Lavalette ends by issuing a rallying cry for greater local democracy, greater accountability to local communities and, drawing on historical exa