Globalizing Democracy: Power, Legitimacy and the Interpretation of Democratic Ideas - Couverture souple

Fierlbeck, Katherine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0719076390 ISBN 13 : 9780719076398

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2008

Synopsis

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 widely accepted as the political currency of legitimacy, the more broadly it is defined. But as agreement decreases regarding the definition of democracy, the less we are able to evaluate how it is working, or indeed whether it is working at all.

The second issue is causal: what are the claims being made regarding how best to secure a democratic system in developing states? To what extent do our beliefs and expectations of how political relations ought to be governed distort our understanding of how democratic societies do in fact emerge; and, conversely, to what extent does our understanding of how democracy manifests itself temper our conception of what it ought to be?

The volume will be of interest to those in international development studies, as well as political theorists with an interest in applied ethics.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Katherine Fierlbeck is Professor of Political Science at Dalhousie University in Halifax, Canada

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0719076390
• ISBN 13: 9780719076398
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible