Perspectives on Democratic Practice – serie
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Democracy – The God That Failed
The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order
Häftad, 2001
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806 kr
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The core of this book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from monarchy to democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy is a lesser evil than democracy, but outlines deficiencies in both. Its methodology is axiomatic-deductive, allowing …
Democracy – The God That Failed
The Economics and Politics of Monarchy, Democracy and Natural Order
Inbunden, 2017
2759 kr
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The core of this book is a systematic treatment of the historic transformation of the West from monarchy to democracy. Revisionist in nature, it reaches the conclusion that monarchy is a lesser evil than democracy, but outlines deficiencies in both. Its methodology is axiomatic-deductive, allowing …
Democracy in Latin America
Häftad, 1999
371 kr
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This book offers an insight into the democratic processes and institutions in Latin and Central America. It analyses the different political systems and the challenges to them from the Left and popular movements.Lievesley questions how far democracy is embedded in Latin and Central American and …
Mainstreaming Gender, Democratizing the State
Av Shirin Rai
Häftad, 2003
382 kr
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Published in association with the United Nations, this book builds on the existing body of literature on gender and democratization by looking at the relevance of national machineries for the advancement of women. It considers the appropriate mechanisms through which the mainstreaming of gender can …
Trade Unions and Democracy
Strategies and Perspectives
Av Mark Harcourt, Geoffrey Wood
Inbunden, 2004
1337 kr
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This book explores the changing role of trade unions as products of, and agents for, democracy. Despite conventionally being portrayed as politically marginalised and in terminal decline, trade unions continue to represent a significant component of society within most industrialised countries and …
Trade Unions and Democracy
Strategies and Perspectives
Av Mark Harcourt, Geoffrey Wood
Häftad, 2009
371 kr
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Available for the first time in paperback, this book explores the role of trade unions as products of, and agents for, democracy. The crisis facing established democratic institutions in the advanced societies has been widely noted. In response, there has been increasing interest in the role of …
Terrorism and Democratic Stability Revisited
Häftad, 2008
443 kr
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Can terrorism and state violence cause democratic breakdown? Although the origins of violence have been studied, only rarely are its consequences examined. In this detailed comparative study of Uruguay, Spain, and Peru, Holmes claims that to understand the consequences of violence on democratic …
Groups, Representation and Democracy
Between Promise and Practice
Inbunden, 2010
1227 kr
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Whether called pressure groups, NGOs, social movement organisations or organised civil society, the value of ‘groups’ to the policy process, to economic growth, to governance, to political representation and to democracy has always been contested. However, there seems to be a contemporary …
Cultural Warfare and Trust
Fighting the Mafia in Palermo
Inbunden, 2008
1227 kr
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Cultural warfare and trust: fighting the Mafia in Palermo concentrates on a central issue in research on democratic processes: the development of generalised trust. The existence of generalised trust and confidence in a society is decisive for economic development and an effective democracy. Is it …
Global Justice Networks
Geographies of Transnational Solidarity
Av Paul Routledge, Andrew Cumbers
Inbunden, 2009
1123 kr
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This book provides a critical investigation of what has been termed the ‘global justice movement’. Through a detailed study of a grassroots peasants’ network in Asia (People’s Global Action), an international trade union network (the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mining and General …
Revolution, democratic transition and disillusionment
The case of Romania
Av Anca Pusca
Häftad, 2013
382 kr
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This book, available at last in paperback, develops a fresh and challenging perspective on the transition from communism to capitalism. Drawing on a wide and diverse range of material and texts, it argues that transition and democratisation studies should turn their attention towards processes of …
Gorbachev's Export of Perestroika to Eastern Europe
Democratisation Reconsidered
Häftad, 2015
371 kr
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This book, available for the first time in paperback, looks at the liberalisation process in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) during the period 1987–89, focusing on Gorbachev’s initiative to encourage perestroika in all the fraternal regimes of CEE outside the Soviet Union. Archival materials, …
Global Justice Networks
Geographies of Transnational Solidarity
Av Paul Routledge, Andrew Cumbers
Häftad, 2016
429 kr
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This book provides a critical investigation of what has been termed the ‘global justice movement’. Through a detailed study of a grassroots peasants’ network in Asia (People’s Global Action), an international trade union network (the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mining and General …
Internet-mediated participation beyond the nation state
Häftad, 2016
371 kr
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This book addresses one of the greatest challenges of post-modern democracy: how to bridge the perceived gap between citizens and democratic institutions. It examines internet-mediated multi-stakeholder processes of international and regional organisations - the European Union and United Nations - …
Globalizing democracy
Power, legitimacy and the interpretation of democratic ideas (2nd ed.)
Häftad, 2008
341 kr
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This new edition examines some of the philosophical and theoretical issues underlying the ‘democratic project’ which increasingly dominates the fields of comparative development and international relations. The first concern presented here is normative and epistemological: as democracy becomes more …
Internet-Mediated Participation Beyond the Nation State
Inbunden, 2008
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This book addresses one of the greatest challenges of post-modern democracy: how to bridge the perceived gap between citizens and democratic institutions. It examines internet-mediated multi-stakeholder processes of international and regional organisations - the European Union and United Nations - …
Christianity and Democratisation
From Pious Subjects to Critical Participants
Inbunden, 2009
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This book examines the contribution of different Christian traditions to the waves of democratisation that have swept various parts of the world in recent decades. It offers a historical overview of Christianity’s engagement with the development of democracy, before focusing in detail on the period …
Democracy in Crisis
Violence, Alterity, Community
Av Stella Gaon
Inbunden, 2010
1188 kr
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This volume explores the political implications of violence and alterity (radical difference) for the practice of democracy, and reformulates the possibility of community that democracy is said to entail. Most significantly, contributors intervene in traditional democratic theory by boldly …
Gorbachev's Export of Perestroika to Eastern Europe
Democratisation Reconsidered
Inbunden, 2012
1123 kr
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This book looks at the liberalisation process in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) during the period 1987-1989, focusing on Gorbachev’s initiative to encourage perestroika in all the fraternal regimes of CEE outside the Soviet Union. Archival materials, interviews and textual analysis identify a …
Transnational Advocacy on the Ground
Against Corruption in Russia?
Inbunden, 2010
1123 kr
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What can be done against corruption? If we trust most assessments, the global anti-corruption movement has so far not managed to markedly reduce the level of corruption, especially in the more problematic countries. This book examines the actual workings of transnational anti-corruption advocacy on …
