Transformations of Democracy: Crisis, Protest and Legitimation - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1783480882 ISBN 13 : 9781783480883

Editeur : Rowman & Littlefield International, 2015

Synopsis

Is democracy in crisis? On one hand, it seems to be decaying under the leadership of political elites who make decisions behind closed doors. On the other hand, citizens are taking to the streets to firmly assert their political participation across the globe. Drawing on a range of theory and empirical investigations, this collection examines tension across understandings of democracy today. It starts by questioning whether there is a crisis of democracy, or if part of this crisis lies in the inadequacy of social and political theory to describe its current challenges. Exploring a range of violent and non-violent forms of resistance, the book goes on to ask whether these are legitimate democratic tools, which need to be built into a new framework of radical democratic theory. In the final section of the book, the contributors attempt to examine what democratic practices and institutions should look like in a globalized society and, primarily from a normative perspective, they outline a new conception of radical democracy that incorporates contemporary rises in citizen-activity and revolt.

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À propos de l?auteur

Robin Celikates is Associate Professor of Political and Social Philosophy and Vice-Director of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Regina Kreide is Professor of Political Theory and History of Ideas at the Justus Liebig University Giessen, Germany. Tilo Wesche is Professor ad interim of Social Philosophy at the Goethe University of Frankfurt, Germany.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Rowman & Littlefield International
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1783480882
• ISBN 13: 9781783480883
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 290
• Éditeur: Celikates Robin, Kreide Regina, Wesche Tilo
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