Democracy

Roland Axtmann is Professor of Politics and Head of the Department of Politics and IR at the University of Wales Swansea. Author of Balancing Democracy (Continuum, 2001) and Liberal Democracy into the 21st Century (Manchester University Press, 1996) and editor of Understanding Democratic Politics: An Introduction (Sage, 2003) and Globalization and Europe: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations (Continuum, 1998).

A wide-ranging and thought-provoking survey of key problems of contemporary democratic politics. Axtmann applies democratic theory in a fresh and illuminating way to the hotly-debated issues of sovereignty, human rights and multicultural politics

• Acknowledgements; Preface; 1. Kant's Republicanism and the Cosmopolitan Persuasion; Kant's Republicanism and the 'Moral Personality' of States; The Sovereign Equality of States, Peaceful Coexistence and the International Constitution; Kant's Cosmopolitanism; Cicero's Republicanism and Stoic Cosmopolitanism: Kant in Comparison; John Rawls and Ju¨rgen Habermas: Alternative Ways of Understanding Kant's Cosmopolitanism; 2. The Languages of Human Rights and the Liberal Dialect; The Many Voices of the Human Rights Discourse; Human Rights as the New Standard of Civilisation; Human Rights and Democracy: Liberal Perspectives; 3. The Globalisation of Democracy: The Right to Democratic Governance; The Entitlement to Democratic Governance in International Law and International Politics; The Ideology of Democracy Promotion; Excursus: Prerequisites and Causes of Democratisation; 4. Sovereignty and Democracy; Conceptual Distinctions; The Politics of the Sovereignty Discourse; 'Domestic Sovereignty' as 'Popular Sovereignty'; 5. Liberal Democracy between Multiculturalism and Globalisation; From 'Demos' to 'Demoi': Multiculturalism and Democracy; Globalisation and Democracy; Bibliography; Index.