Democracy and Crisis

Roland Axtmann, Swansea University, UKMark Bevir University of California at Berkeley, USADaniel Bray La Trobe University, AustraliaNatalie J. DoyleMonash University, AustraliaMatthias Goldmann Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, GermanyJames Goodman, University of Technology Sydney, AustraliaTom Morton, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Roderic Pitty University of Western AustraliaJacob Torfing, Roskilde University, DenmarkAndrew Vandenberg, Deakin University, Australia

Viewing crises as opportunities to democratize governance, this volume offers a refreshing contribution to the debates on governance and democracy, theoretically as well as empirically. Rather than attempting a substantial definition of governance, the contributors are joined by the more pragmatic approach of decentering governance and of situating governance contextually. By doing so, the edition offers a new take through analyses of contemporary phenomena such as the global financial crisis, the Occupy and Wikileaks movements, the Arab revolutions, or global environmental governance. Well organized and well written, this book will be useful to newcomers as well as seasoned scholars in the field. Anne Mette Kjaer, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark 'This volume assembles an impressive range of scholars to address the problems of democratic governance emerging in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis. Significantly, they show that the GFC and other contemporary crises highlight problems inherent to the complex relationship of democracy and governance and which therefore resist simple solutions.' Adrian Little, Professor of Political Theory, University of Melbourne, Australia

• Introduction: Crisis and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century; Benjamin Isakhan and Steven Slaughter PART I: RECONSIDERING GOVERNANCE 1. Decentreing Governance: A Democratic Turn?; Mark Bevir 2. The Democratic Accountability of Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector; Jacob Torfing PART II: THE GLOBAL FINANCIAL CRISIS AND DEMOCRACY 3. The Financial Crisis as a Crisis of Public Reasoning; Matthias Goldmann 4. Neo-Liberal Governance and the Protest Politics of the Occupy Movement; Daniel Bray 5. Governance and Democratic Legitimacy: The European Union's Crisis of De-Politicisation; Natalie J. Doyle 6. Disintegrating European Austerity in Greece and Germany; Roderic Pitty PART III: TRANSITIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL ATTEMPTS TO DE3MOCRATISE GOVERNANCE 7. Democratising Governance after the Arab Revolutions: The People, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Governance Networks of Egypt; Benjamin Isakhan 8. WikiLeaks and the Limits of Representative Democracy and Transnational Democratisation; Steven Slaughter PART IV: GLOBAL GOVERNANCE AND DEMOCRATIC CRISES 9. Global Governance, Constitutionalism and Democracy; Roland Axtmann 10. Global Unionism and Global Governance; Andrew Vandenberg 11. Climate Crises and the Limits of Liberal Democracy? Germany, Australia and India Compared; James Goodman and Tom Morton Conclusion: The Future of Democratic Governance ; Benjamin Isakhan and Steven Slaughter