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  • 1
    Book
    Book
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107189812 , 9781316639436
    Language: English
    Pages: xxv, 474 Seiten
    Series Statement: Cambridge companions
    Series Statement: Philosophy
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The Cambridge companion to Democracy in America
    DDC: 306.2092
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    Keywords: Tocqueville, Alexis de ; Democracy ; POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Tocqueville, Alexis de 1805-1859 ; Tocqueville, Alexis de 1805-1859 De la démocratie en Amérique ; Demokratie ; USA
    Abstract: "Originally published in two volumes in 1835 and 1840, and translated into English in multiple recent editions, Alexis de Tocqueville's classic Democracy in America is among the most widely cited accounts of the distinctiveness of American democracy. US presidents as different as Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and Barack Obama have all invoked the authority of Tocqueville's Democracy in support of divergent visions of the American regime"--
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 432-461
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9781009178365 , 9781009178389
    Language: English
    Pages: xxii, 435 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Democratic multiplicity
    DDC: 321.8
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    Keywords: Democracy ; Democracy and environmentalism ; Common good ; Nature Effect of human beings on ; Political aspects ; Konferenzschrift 2019 ; Demokratie
    Abstract: "Democracies thrive on mutual participation of one and all here and now. They are marked by a commitment to coordination and cooperation across various fields. Despite their strengths, democracies could more effectively connect with our more-than-human relatives. A universal theory or view is not required to take such action. Non-violence, pluralism, and agonistic engagement with the natural world could further expand democracies' futures. Throughout this book, you will read that interdependence and mutual engagement with those who are different is a key to joint action. This contrasts with politics built on force, coercion and non-cooperation, where power is concentrated in competing "us and them" camps. This book explains how democracies thrive when they move beyond assessments of "what is good for me" and inquire into what is good for "all of us together." In this light, human concerns should not monopolize political judgement; democracies should also revolve around what is good for the entire biosphere. We must learn politics from our ancestors. Plants, insects, birds, and animals have much to teach us. We are their descendants and they are our elders. We would not exist without them. They came first and they continue to sustain us. Our evolutionary lineage and biophysical dependence points to this fact"--
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 389-422. - Index
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  • 3
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108954167
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xi, 257 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 303.372
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    Keywords: Social justice ; Democracy ; Equality
    Abstract: The tensions between democracy and justice have long preoccupied political theorists. Institutions that are procedurally democratic do not necessarily make substantively just decisions. Democratizing Global Justice shows that democracy and justice can be mutually reinforcing in global governance - a domain where both are conspicuously lacking - and indeed that global justice requires global democratization. This novel reconceptualization of the problematic relationship between global democracy and global justice emphasises the role of inclusive deliberative processes. These processes can empower the agents necessary to determine what justice should mean and how it should be implemented in any given context. Key agents include citizens and the global poor; and not just the states but also international organizations and advocacy groups active in global governance. The argument is informed by and applied to the decision process leading to adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals, and climate governance inasmuch as it takes on questions of climate justice
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  • 4
    ISBN: 9781108844987 , 9781108949347
    Language: English
    Pages: xi, 257 Seiten
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Dryzek, John S. Democratizing global justice
    DDC: 303.372
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    Keywords: Social justice ; Democracy ; Equality ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Demokratie ; Soziale Gerechtigkeit ; Demokratie ; Gleichheit
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 226-249. - Index
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  • 5
    ISBN: 9781108427784 , 9781108448161
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 396 Seiten , Diagramme
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Sellers, Jefferey, 1958 - Multilevel democracy
    DDC: 320.8
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    Keywords: Central-local government relations ; Local government ; Democracy ; Civil society ; Comparative government ; Demokratie ; Lokale Machtstruktur ; Zivilgesellschaft
    Abstract: "This volume presents the first systematic comparative analysis of national traditions of local democracy across the developed world, as well as their origins and evolution. It reveals how inclusive local institutions that integrate national and local governance make democracy work better. Across most of the developed world, early forms of the national state entrenched the local power of elites. In Anglo-American and Swiss democracies, state formation imposed enduring tensions with local civic governance. In contrast, inclusive, integrative local institutions in Northern Europe enabled close links with central government around common local and national agendas, producing better governance and fuller democracy to the present day. Through comparative analysis, the authors demonstrate how institutions for local governance and the participation of civil society differ widely among developed democracies, and how local democracy relates to national democracy. The resulting insights fundamentally recast our understanding of how to build and maintain more effective democracies"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9781108835558 , 9781108812894
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 345 Seiten , Diagramme
    Series Statement: SSRC anxieties of democracy
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Social media and democracy
    DDC: 302.23/1
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    Keywords: Social media Political aspects ; Online social networks Political aspects ; Information society Political aspects ; Information technology Political aspects ; Democracy ; Political participation Technological innovations ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Demokratie ; Social Media ; Desinformation ; Hassrede ; Politische Werbung
    Abstract: Introduction / Nathaniel Persily and Joshua A. Tucker -- Misinformation, disinformation, and online propaganda / Andrew M. Guess and Benjamin A. Lyons -- Social media, echo chambers, and political polarization / Pablo Barbera -- Online hate speech / Alexandra A. Siegel -- Bots and CompBots computational propaganda : automation for communication and controlutational propaganda / Samuel C. Woolley -- Online political advertising in the United States / Erika Franklin Fowler, Michael M. Franz, and Travis N. Ridout -- Democratic creative destruction? : the effect of a changing media landscape on democracy / Rasmus Kleis Nielsen and Richard Fletcher -- Misinformation and its correction / Chloe Wittenberg and Adam J. Berinsky -- Comparative media regulation in the US and Europe / Francis Fukuyama and Andrew Grotto -- Facts and where to find them: empirical research on Internet platforms and online speech / Daphne Keller and Paddy Leerssen -- Dealing with disinformation : evaluating the case for CDA 230 amendment / Tim Hwang -- Democratic transparency in the platform society / Robert Gorwa and Timothy Garton Ash -- Conclusion : the challenges and opportunities for social media research / Nathaniel Persily and Joshua A. Tucker.
    Note: Literaturangaben. - Index
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  • 7
    ISBN: 9781108692793
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xxvi, 216 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als When democracy trumps populism
    DDC: 973.933092
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    Keywords: Trump, Donald Political and social views ; Populism History ; Populism History ; Populism ; Democracy ; Trump, Donald ; 1946- ; Political and social views ; Populism ; United States ; Democracy ; United States ; Populism ; Europe ; History ; Populism ; Latin America ; History ; United States ; Politics and government ; 2017- ; Europe ; Politics and government ; 1989- ; Latin America ; Politics and government ; 1980- ; United States Politics and government 2017- ; Europe Politics and government 1989- ; Latin America Politics and government 1980- ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Demokratie ; Populismus ; Europa ; Lateinamerika
    Abstract: The victory of Donald Trump in the 2016 election left specialists of American politics perplexed and concerned about the future of US democracy. Because no populist leader had occupied the White House in 150 years, there were many questions about what to expect. Marshaling the long-standing expertise of leading specialists of populism elsewhere in the world, this book provides the first systematic, comparative analysis of the prospects for US democracy under Trump, considering the two regions - Europe and Latin America - that have had the most ample recent experiences with populist chief executives. Chapters analyze the conditions under which populism slides into illiberal or authoritarian rule and in so doing derive well-grounded insights and scenarios for the US case, as well as a more general cross-national framework. The book makes an original argument about the likely resilience of US democracy and its institutions
    Abstract: Donald Trump's populism: what are the prospects for U.S. democracy? / by Kurt Weyland and Raúl L. Madrid -- Dealing with populism in Latin America: lessons for Donald Trump's populist presidency in the United States / by Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser -- Donald Trump and the lessons of East-Central European populism / by Kevin Deegan-Krause -- Has populism eroded the quality of European democracy? Insights from Italy and the Netherlands / by Bertjan Verbeek and Andrej Zaslove -- Trump's populism: the mobilization of nationalist cleavages and the future of U.S. democracy / by Bart Bonikowski -- Parties, populism, and democratic decay: a comparative perspective on political polarization in the United States / by Kenneth M. Roberts -- Why U.S. democracy will survive Trump / by Raúl L. Madrid and Kurt Weyland
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  • 8
    ISBN: 9781108698368
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xvii, 304 pages)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The civil sphere in East Asia
    DDC: 300.95
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    Keywords: Civil society ; Political participation ; Democracy ; Civil society ; East Asia ; Political participation ; East Asia ; Democracy ; East Asia ; East Asia ; Politics and government ; 21st century ; East Asia Politics and government 21st century
    Abstract: Leading sociologists who live and work in East Asia examine their region's most dangerous and explosive social problems, and some of their most stunning success stories, from the viewpoint of Civil Sphere Theory. This new and increasingly influential sociological understanding of democracy aims to describe and explain the moral codes and institutional foundations of democratic solidarity, as it manifests itself within a distinct social sphere. Part of a multi-volume project, this collection includes cases from Japan, mainland China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, and South Korea, bringing together efforts by sociologists based in East Asian academic institutions. Through an extraordinary blend of sophisticated social theory and path-breaking empirical research, The Civil Sphere in East Asia aims to advance civil sphere theory by globalizing and regionalizing it at the same time.
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  • 9
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    Online Resource
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108355001
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xviii, 398 Seiten)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Prior, Markus, 1974 - Hooked
    DDC: 324.01/9#23
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    Keywords: Democracy Psychological aspects ; Political participation Psychological aspects ; Political psychology ; Political psychology ; Political participation ; Psychological aspects ; Democracy ; Psychological aspects ; Democracy ; Political participation ; Political psychology ; Demokratie ; Politisches Interesse ; Politische Einstellung ; Politisches Verhalten ; Politische Psychologie
    Abstract: Political interest is the strongest predictor of 'good citizenship', yet hardly anything is known about it. For the first time in over three decades, here is a study explaining what political interest is, where it comes from, and why it matters. Providing the most thorough description available of political interest in four Western democracies this study analyzes large household panel data sets rarely used in political science to explain how interest develops in people's lives. In an accessible manner, the book's analytical approach pushes applied social scientists to consider how panel data can be used to better understand political behavior. It does so in a way that doesn't gloss over complexities, and explains them in straightforward language. Advanced statistical methods are presented informally, accompanied by graphical illustrations that require no prior knowledge to understand the methods used
    Abstract: Why political interest matters and how to understand its origins -- The psychology of political interest -- Measuring political interest -- The impact of elections -- 60 years of political interest -- Political interest over the life course: the population average -- Stability and variation in political interest -- Differences in age trajectories -- The big benefits of panel data analysis -- Education -- Parents -- Money, health, and happiness -- Encounters with politics -- The impact of political attitudes and identities -- Conclusion
    Note: Includes bibliographical references
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  • 10
    ISBN: 9781108427838 , 9781108448208
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 304 Seiten , Diagramme
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als The civil sphere in East Asia
    DDC: 300.95
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    Keywords: Civil society ; Political participation ; Democracy ; East Asia Politics and government 21st century
    Abstract: "Civil Sphere Theory (CST) aims to describe and explain the moral codes and institutional foundations of democratic solidarity, as it manifests itself within a distinct social sphere. The civil sphere is a space, as much symbolic and aspirational as institutional and physical, within which people perform and enact democratic values, forming a community that includes and excludes on the basis of binary codes that define civil and anticivil motives, relations, and institutions, and that negotiates and pushes its boundaries in relation to other spheres such as the market, the state, professional domains, religion, and the family. Civil spheres and their boundaries are underpinned by ideals that are expressed and shaped through the media, and that are enforced or suppressed through legal and political institutions"--
    Note: Includes bibliographical references , Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
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  • 11
    Book
    Book
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108420679 , 9781108430746
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 398 Seiten , Diagramme
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Prior, Markus, 1974 - Hooked
    DDC: 324.01/9
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    Keywords: Political psychology ; Political participation Psychological aspects ; Democracy Psychological aspects ; Political psychology ; Political participation Psychological aspects ; Democracy Psychological aspects ; Democracy ; Political participation ; Political psychology ; Demokratie ; Politisches Interesse ; Politische Einstellung ; Politisches Verhalten ; Politische Psychologie
    Abstract: Why political interest matters and how to understand its origins -- The psychology of political interest -- Measuring political interest -- The impact of elections -- 60 years of political interest -- Political interest over the life course: the population average -- Stability and variation in political interest -- Differences in age trajectories -- The big benefits of panel data analysis -- Education -- Parents -- Money, health, and happiness -- Encounters with politics -- The impact of political attitudes and identities -- Conclusion
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 375-392 und Index
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  • 12
    Book
    Book
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108498807
    Language: English
    Pages: xiii, 239 Seiten , Diagramme
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Przeworski, Adam, 1940 - Crises of democracy
    DDC: 321.8
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    Keywords: Democracy ; World politics ; Politisches System ; Demokratie ; Entwicklung ; Politische Bildung ; Entwicklungshilfe ; Defizit ; Einflussgröße ; Interesse ; Soziales Feld ; Kultur ; Tendenz ; Erde ; Demokratie ; Krise ; Demokratie ; Weltpolitik ; Krise ; Politik
    Note: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke , Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 207-226, Index
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  • 13
    ISBN: 9781107539860
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 166 Seiten , Illustrationen, Diagramme , 23 cm
    Edition: First paperback edition
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology
    DDC: 320.973
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    Keywords: United States Constituent communication ; Technological innovations ; Representative government and representation ; Democracy ; Political participation Technological innovations ; Communication in politics Technological innovations ; Online chat groups Political aspects ; USA ; Repräsentation ; Repräsentative Demokratie ; Direkte Demokratie
    Abstract: "Many citizens in the US and abroad fear that democratic institutions have become weak, and continue to weaken. Politics with the People develops the principles and practice of 'directly representative democracy' - a new way of connecting citizens and elected officials to improve representative government. Sitting members of Congress agreed to meet with groups of their constituents via online, deliberative town hall meetings to discuss some of the most important and controversial issues of the day. The results from these experiments reveal a model of how our democracy could work, where politicians consult with and inform citizens in substantive discussions, and where otherwise marginalized citizens participate and are empowered. Moving beyond our broken system of interest group politics and partisan bloodsport, directly representative reforms will help restore citizens' faith in the institutions of democratic self-government, precisely at a time when those institutions themselves feel dysfunctional and endangered"--
    Abstract: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: directly representative democracy; 1. The spirit and form of popular government; 2. Building a new home style; 3. Half of democracy; 4. Rational ignorance and reasonable learning; 5. (The) deliberative persuasion; 6. Representative connections; 7. Scaling up and scaling out; Conclusion: Republican redux
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 153-162
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  • 14
    ISBN: 9781139136303
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 245 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Bellamy, Richard, 1957 - A republican Europe of states
    DDC: 341.242/2
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    Keywords: Europäische Union ; Legitimacy of governments ; Democracy ; Demokratie ; Verfassung ; Legitimität ; Legitimation ; Souveränität ; Hoheitsrecht ; Rechtsübertragung ; Integration ; Mitgliedsstaaten ; Internationale Organisation ; Supranationale Organisation ; Staatenbund ; Politische Theorie ; Democracy ; European Union countries ; Legitimacy of governments ; European Union countries ; Europäische Union ; Demokratie ; Legitimität
    Abstract: Combining international political theory and EU studies, Richard Bellamy provides an original account of the democratic legitimacy of international organisations. He proposes a new interpretation of the EU's democratic failings and how they might be addressed. Drawing on the republican theory of freedom as non-domination, Bellamy proposes a way to combine national popular sovereignty with the pursuit of fair and equitable relations of non-domination among states and their citizens. Applying this approach to the EU, Bellamy shows that its democratic failings lie not with the democratic deficit at the EU level but with a democratic disconnect at the member state level. Rather than shifting democratic authority to the European Parliament, this book argues that the EU needs to reconnect with the different 'demoi' of the member states by empowering national parliaments in the EU policy-making process.
    Abstract: Democratic legitimacy and international institutions - republican intergovernmentalism, cosmopolitan statism, and the demoi-cratic reconnection of the EU -- Cosmopolitism and statism: global interdependence and national self-determination -- Justice, legitimacy and republicanism: non-domination and the global -- Sovereignty, republicanism and the democratic legitimacy of the EU -- Representing the people's of Europe: addressing the demoi-cratic disconnect -- Union citizenship - supra- and post-national, trans-national or inter- national? -- Differentiated integration and the demoicratic constitution of the EU -- The global trilemma, the future of the EU and Brexit
    Note: Literaturverzeichnis Seite 213-237, Register , Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 29 Jan 2019)
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  • 15
    ISBN: 9781108582834
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 216 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Print version
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Tolerance, secularization and democratic politics in South Asia
    DDC: 320.954
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    Keywords: Democracy ; Secularism Political aspects ; Toleration ; Democracy ; South Asia ; Secularism ; Political aspects ; South Asia ; Toleration ; South Asia ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Südasien ; Religiöse Minderheit ; Nationale Minderheit ; Minderheitenpolitik ; Demokratisierung
    Abstract: What is the relationship between secularization and tolerance? Critically analyzing the empirical and theoretical foundations of a putatively linear relationship between the two, this volume argues for moving past both romanticised readings of pre-modern tolerance and the unthinking belief that secularization will inevitably lead to tolerance. The essays collected in this volume include contributions from across South Asia that suggest that democratic politics have added a layer of complexity to questions of peaceful co-existence. Modern transformations in religious thought and practice have had contradictory implications for tolerance, which offer rich insights into contemporary debates in the region. This multi-disciplinary volume, which spans history, sociology, anthropology and political theory, questions the uncritical acceptance of tolerance as the best framework for engaging with difference, and probes the complications created by and through democratic politics
    Abstract: Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction Humeira Iqtidar and Tanika Sarkar; 2. Languages of secularity Sudipta Kaviraj; 3. Secularization of politics: Muslim nationalism and sectarian conflict in South Asia Sadia Saeed; 4. Temple building in secularizing Nepal: materializing religion and ethnicity in a state of transformation Sara Shneiderman; 5. Secularization and 'constitutive moments': insights from partition diplomacy in South Asia Joya Chatterji; 6. Tolerance in Bangladesh: discourses of state and society Samia Huq; 7. In the void of faith: Sunnyata, sovereignty, minority Aishwary Kumar; 8. Pillayar and the politicians: secularization and toleration at the end of Sri Lanka's Civil War Jonathan Spencer
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 25 Jul 2018)
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  • 16
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108297721
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (viii, 171 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Montanaro, Laura Who elected Oxfam?
    DDC: 321.8
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    Keywords: Non-governmental organizations Political aspects ; Democracy ; Political participation ; Protest movements ; Representative government and representation ; Representative government and representation ; Protest movements ; Political participation ; Non-governmental organizations ; Political aspects ; Democracy ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Oxfam GB ; Nichtstaatliche Organisation ; Demokratie ; Repräsentation
    Abstract: Non-elected actors, such as non-governmental organizations and celebrity activists, present themselves as representatives of others to audiences of decision-makers, such as state leaders, the European Union, the United Nations, and the World Trade Organization. These actors are increasingly included in the deliberation and decision-making processes of such institutions. To take one well-known example, the non-governmental organization, Oxfam, presses decision-makers and governments for fair trade rules on behalf of the world's poor. What entitles such 'self-appointed representatives' to speak and act for the poor? As The Economist asked, 'Who elected Oxfam?'. Montanaro claims that such actors can, and should, be conceptualized as representatives, and that they can - though do not always - represent others in a manner that we can recognize as democratic. However, in order to do so, we must stretch our imaginations beyond the standard normative framework of elections
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jan 2018)
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  • 17
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107280571
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 206 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Series Statement: Classics after antiquity
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kasimis, Demetra, 1980 - The perpetual immigrant and the limits of Athenian democracy
    DDC: 323.60938/5
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    Keywords: Metics ; Citizenship ; Democracy ; Citizenship ; Greece ; Athens ; Democracy ; Greece ; Athens ; Metics ; Athens (Greece) ; Emigration and immigration ; Athens (Greece) Emigration and immigration ; Griechenland ; Metöke ; Einwanderung ; Bürgerrecht
    Abstract: In the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, immigrants called 'metics' (metoikoi) settled in Athens without a path to citizenship. Galvanized by these political realities, classical thinkers cast a critical eye on the nativism defining democracy's membership rules and explored the city's anxieties over intermingling and passing. Yet readers continue to treat immigration and citizenship as separate phenomena of little interest to theorists writing at the time. In The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy, Demetra Kasimis makes visible the long-overlooked centrality of immigration to the originary practices of democracy and political theory in Athens. She dismantles the interpretive and political assumptions that have led readers to turn away from the metic and reveals the key role this figure plays in such texts as Plato's Republic. The result is a series of original readings that boldly reframes urgent questions about how democracies order their non-citizen members
    Abstract: Machine generated contents note: Part I. Autochthony Trouble: 1. The metic in and out of theory; 2. Immigrant passing in Euripides' Ion, the tragedy of blood-based membership; Part II. A Metric Republic in Three Acts: 3. The Republic as a metic space; 4. Plato's open decret; 5. Of mimesis and metic: a reading of democracy in Book VIII; Part III. Evading Detection: 6. Citizen passing in Demosthenes 57: the oration of Athenian blood; Conclusion: political theory from the edges of Athenian democracy; Appendix. A metic timeline
    Note: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 01 Aug 2018)
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  • 18
    ISBN: 9781316338179
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in public opinion and political psychology 555
    Series Statement: Cambridge Books Online
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Neblo, Michael A. Politics with the people
    DDC: 320.973
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    Keywords: United States / Congress Constituent communication ; Technological innovations ; United States Constituent communication ; Technological innovations ; Online chat groups Political aspects ; United States ; Political participation Technological innovations ; United States ; Communication in politics Technological innovations ; United States ; Democracy United States ; Representative government and representation United States ; Online chat groups Political aspects ; Political participation Technological innovations ; Communication in politics Technological innovations ; Democracy ; Representative government and representation ; United States ; Congress ; Constituent communication ; Technological innovations ; Representative government and representation ; United States ; Democracy ; United States ; Political participation ; Technological innovations ; United States ; Communication in politics ; Technological innovations ; United States ; Online chat groups ; Political aspects ; United States ; USA ; Repräsentation ; Repräsentative Demokratie ; Direkte Demokratie
    Abstract: Many citizens in the US and abroad fear that democratic institutions have become weak, and continue to weaken. Politics with the People develops the principles and practice of 'directly representative democracy' - a new way of connecting citizens and elected officials to improve representative government. Sitting members of Congress agreed to meet with groups of their constituents via online, deliberative town hall meetings to discuss some of the most important and controversial issues of the day. The results from these experiments reveal a model of how our democracy could work, where politicians consult with and inform citizens in substantive discussions, and where otherwise marginalized citizens participate and are empowered. Moving beyond our broken system of interest group politics and partisan bloodsport, directly representative reforms will help restore citizens' faith in the institutions of democratic self-government, precisely at a time when those institutions themselves feel dysfunctional and endangered
    Abstract: Machine generated contents note: Introduction: directly representative democracy; 1. The spirit and form of popular government; 2. Building a new home style; 3. Half of democracy; 4. Rational ignorance and reasonable learning; 5. (The) deliberative persuasion; 6. Representative connections; 7. Scaling up and scaling out; Conclusion: Republican redux
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  • 19
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108686518
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (76 pages) , digital, PDF file(s)
    Series Statement: Cambridge elements
    Series Statement: Politics and society in Southeast Asia
    Parallel Title: Print version
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Davidson, Jamie Seth, 1971 - Indonesia
    DDC: 320.9598
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    Keywords: Democratization ; Democracy ; Politisches System ; Demokratie ; Demokratisierung ; Politischer Wandel ; Entwicklung ; Regierung ; Politische Ökonomie ; Planwirtschaft ; Nationalbewusstsein ; Tendenz ; Democratization ; Indonesia ; Democracy ; Indonesia ; Indonesia ; Politics and government ; 1998- ; Indonesia ; Economic conditions ; 1998- ; Indonesia Economic conditions 1998- ; Indonesia Politics and government 1998- ; Indonesien ; Indonesien ; Politischer Wandel ; Demokratisierung ; Geschichte 1998-2018
    Abstract: This Element argues that after twenty years of democratization, Indonesia has performed admirably. This is especially so when the country's accomplishments are placed in comparative perspective. However, as we analytically focus more closely to inspect Indonesia's political regime, political economy, and how identity-based mobilizations have emerged, it is clear that Indonesia still has many challenges to overcome, some so pressing that they could potentially erode or reverse many of the democratic gains the country has achieved since its former authoritarian ruler, Soeharto, was forced to resign in 1998
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  • 20
    ISBN: 9781316649060 , 9781107199903
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 587 Seiten
    Series Statement: Global law series
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Thornhill, Christopher J., 1966 - The sociology of law and the global transformation of democracy
    DDC: 340/.115
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    Keywords: Sociological jurisprudence ; Law Political aspects ; Democracy Social aspects ; Sociological jurisprudence ; Law Political aspects ; Democracy Social aspects ; Democracy ; Law ; Sociological jurisprudence ; Demokratie ; Internationales Recht ; Rechtssoziologie ; Demokratie ; Internationales Recht ; Rechtssoziologie
    Abstract: The paradox of democracy and the sociology of law -- National democracy and global law -- Before the law? -- Politics becomes the law -- The reconstruction of democratic agency -- Conclusion
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  • 21
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316823705
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 418 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
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    DDC: 303.6098
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    Keywords: Crime Economic aspects ; Democratization ; Democracy ; Civil war Social aspects ; Violence ; Violence Political aspects ; Violence ; Central America ; Violence ; Political aspects ; Central America ; Civil war ; Social aspects ; Central America ; Crime ; Economic aspects ; Central America ; Democratization ; Latin America ; Democracy ; Latin America ; Central America ; Social conditions ; Central America Social conditions
    Abstract: Why has violence spiked in Latin America's contemporary democracies? What explains its temporal and spatial variation? Analyzing the region's uneven homicide levels, this book maps out a theoretical agenda focusing on three intersecting factors: the changing geography of transnational illicit political economies; the varied capacity and complicity of state institutions tasked with providing law and order; and organizational competition to control illicit territorial enclaves. These three factors inform the emergence of 'homicidal ecologies' (subnational regions most susceptible to violence) in Latin America. After focusing on the contemporary causes of homicidal violence, the book analyzes the comparative historical origins of weak and complicit public security forces and the rare moments in which successful institutional reform takes place. Regional trends in Latin America are evaluated, followed by original case studies of Central America, which claims among the highest homicide rates in the world
    Abstract: Introduction -- Violence in third wave democracies -- Appendix to chapter -- Engaging the theoretical debate and alternative arguments -- Appendix to chapter -- The argument about homicidal ecologies -- Illicit economies and territorial enclaves: -- The transnational context and domestic footprint -- State capacity and organizational competition: -- Strategic calculations about territory and violence -- Appendix to chapter -- Divergent trajectories in Central America: -- Post-Civil War cases -- Preface -- High violence in post-Civil-War Guatemala -- Appendix to chapter -- High violence in post-Civil War El Salvador -- Appendix to chapter -- Circumscribing violence in post-civil war Nicaragua -- Appendix to chapter -- Looking backwards and forwards -- Concluding with states
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781108355087
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (ix, 149 Seiten)
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in contentious politics
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    DDC: 303.48/4
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    Keywords: Multiculturalism ; Democracy ; Social movements ; Soziale Bewegung ; Demokratie ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Multikulturelle Gesellschaft ; Demokratie ; Soziale Bewegung
    Abstract: At a time when the legitimacy of democracies is in question, calls to improve the quality of public debate and deliberative democracy are sweeping the social sciences. Yet, real deliberation lies far from the deliberative ideal. Theorists have argued that linguistic and cultural differences foster inequality and impede democratic deliberation. In this empirical study, the author presents the collective practices of political translation, which help multilingual and culturally diverse groups work together more democratically than homogeneous groups. Political translation, distinct from linguistic translation, is a set of disruptive and communicative practices developed by activists and grassroots community organizers in order to address inequities hindering democratic deliberation and to entreat powerful groups to work together more inclusively with disempowered groups. Based on ten years of fieldwork, Political Translation provides the first systematic comparative study of deliberation under conditions of linguistic difference and cultural misunderstandings
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  • 23
    ISBN: 9781108419369
    Language: English
    Pages: viii, 171 Seiten , 24 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Montanaro, Laura Who elected Oxfam?
    Dissertation note: Dissertation
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    Keywords: Representative government and representation ; Protest movements ; Political participation ; Non-governmental organizations Political aspects ; Democracy ; Representative government and representation ; Protest movements ; Political participation ; Non-governmental organizations Political aspects ; Democracy ; Hochschulschrift ; Hochschulschrift ; Oxfam GB ; Nichtstaatliche Organisation ; Demokratie ; Repräsentation ; Oxfam GB ; Nichtstaatliche Organisation ; Demokratie ; Repräsentation
    Note: Includes bibliographical references and index
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  • 24
    ISBN: 9781108412254 , 9781108419833
    Language: English
    Pages: x, 183 Seiten , 23 cm
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Cohen, Elizabeth F., 1973 - The political value of time
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    Keywords: Citizenship ; Political participation ; Democracy ; State, The ; Time Political aspects ; Political science ; Time ; Politik ; Zeit ; Demokratie ; Staat ; Politische Theorie ; Politik ; Zeit ; Demokratie ; Staat ; Politische Theorie
    Abstract: "Time is widely recognized as one of the most precious and finite resources required for the accomplishment of human purposes. Within the domain of the political, time is required for almost any exercise of liberty that people seek to protect through the enforcement of social contracts, constitutions, and laws. Time is therefore inextricable from the realization of any vision of political justice. All political subjects encounter myriad ways in which their time is structured, valued, appropriated, or freed by the state. In the United States, we wait to turn 18 to acquire political voice and full representation. Then we wait again, to turn 62 or 66, when we can retire from work and receive retirement benefits, if we wish. People file taxes on April 15; redistricting hinges on decennial censuses; and prosecutors specify when crimes were committed to determine whether statutes of limitation have expired. Around us convicted criminals are punished with prison sentences of varying durations, legal permanent residents refrain from traveling for long periods of time as they seek to naturalize, and election cycles run their course only to begin anew. Despite the significance of time for the satisfaction of people's ends, the legitimate power of the state to command the time of its subjects and set a political schedule is not generally contested"--
    Abstract: The sovereign temporal boundaries around nation-states, populations, and citizenries -- Democracy, duration, and lived consent -- Time's political value -- The political economy of time
    Note: Enthält Literaturverzeichnis Seite 164-177 und Index
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107052437
    Language: English
    Pages: xvii, 206 Seiten , 23 cm
    Series Statement: Classics after Antiquity
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Kasimis, Demetra, 1980 - The perpetual immigrant and the limits of Athenian democracy
    DDC: 323.609385
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    Keywords: Citizenship History ; To 1500 ; Greece ; Athens ; Democracy History ; To 1500 ; Greece ; Athens ; Metics ; Citizenship ; Democracy ; Metics ; Athens (Greece) Emigration and immigration ; Athens (Greece) Emigration and immigration ; Griechenland ; Metöke ; Einwanderung ; Bürgerrecht
    Abstract: "In the fifth and fourth centuries BCE, immigrants called 'metics' (metoikoi) settled in Athens without a path to citizenship. Galvanized by these political realities, classical thinkers cast a critical eye on the nativism defining democracy's membership rules and explored the city's anxieties over intermingling and passing. Yet readers continue to treat immigration and citizenship as separate phenomena of little interest to theorists writing at the time. In The Perpetual Immigrant and the Limits of Athenian Democracy, Demetra Kasimis makes visible the long-overlooked centrality of immigration to the originary practices of democracy and political theory in Athens. She dismantles the interpretive and political assumptions that have led readers to turn away from the metic and reveals the key role this figure plays in such texts as Plato's Republic. The result is a series of original readings that boldly reframes urgent questions about how democracies order their non-citizen members"--
    Abstract: Machine generated contents note: Part I. Autochthony Trouble: 1. The metic in and out of theory; 2. Immigrant passing in Euripides' Ion, the tragedy of blood-based membership; Part II. A Metric Republic in Three Acts: 3. The Republic as a metic space; 4. Plato's open decret; 5. Of mimesis and metic: a reading of democracy in Book VIII; Part III. Evading Detection: 6. Citizen passing in Demosthenes 57: the oration of Athenian blood; Conclusion: political theory from the edges of Athenian democracy; Appendix. A metic timeline
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781316182529 , 9781107102262
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xx, 273 pages) , digital, PDF file(s).
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    DDC: 320.954/14#23
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    Keywords: Right and left (Political science) ; Democracy ; Right and left (Political science) ; India ; West Bengal ; Democracy ; India ; West Bengal ; West Bengal (India) ; Politics and government ; West Bengal (India) Politics and government ; Electronic books ; Electronic books
    Abstract: The democratic Left in India is in crisis. During the first decade of this century it slid from its highest parliamentary presence to virtual irrelevance. A key to its retrieval, this book argues, lies in its ability to imagine a new popular politics for reinventing its democratic credentials beyond electoral posturing. In this respect, much can be learnt from the Left's governmental practices as they have evolved since the late 1960s, crafting a unique blend of politics, policy, idealism, practicality, vision and delivery. By looking at the problematics of government from the days of deft land reforms to messy land acquisition, this book situates 'government as practice' as a prism for critical thinking on democratic politics in postcolonial India. Grounded in empirical and archival research, the book will be useful for those who are passionate as well as sceptical about the revival potentials of a new Left in India's fast-changing political economy.
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107120754 , 9781107543812
    Language: English
    Pages: ix, 407 Seiten , Illustrationen , 23 cm
    DDC: 320.011
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    Keywords: Liberty ; Power (Social sciences) ; Democracy ; Knowledge, Theory of ; Liberty ; Power (Social sciences) ; Democracy ; Knowledge ; Freiheit ; Wissen ; Informationelles Selbstbestimmungsrecht ; Demokratie ; Demokratie ; Freiheit ; Informationelles Selbstbestimmungsrecht ; Wissen
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  • 28
    ISBN: 9781316104620
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xv, 259 Seiten)
    Series Statement: African studies 133
    Series Statement: African studies
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als Hunter, Emma, 1980 - Political thought and the public sphere in Tanzania
    DDC: 323/.04209678
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    Keywords: Democracy ; Political participation ; Political participation ; Tanzania ; Democracy ; Tanzania ; Tansania ; Politik ; Diskurs ; Arusha Deklaration ; Geschichte 1945-1967
    Abstract: Political Thought and the Public Sphere in Tanzania is a study of the interplay of vernacular and global languages of politics in the era of decolonization in Africa. Decolonization is often understood as a moment when Western forms of political order were imposed on non-Western societies, but this book draws attention instead to debates over universal questions about the nature of politics, concept of freedom and the meaning of citizenship. These debates generated political narratives that were formed in dialogue with both global discourses and local political arguments. The United Nations Trusteeship Territory of Tanganyika, now mainland Tanzania, serves as a compelling example of these processes. Starting in 1945 and culminating with the Arusha Declaration of 1967, Emma Hunter explores political argument in Tanzania's public sphere to show how political narratives succeeded when they managed to combine promises of freedom with new forms of belonging at local and national level
    Abstract: Introduction -- 1. Concepts of progress in mid-twentieth-century Tanzania -- 2. Transnational languages of democracy after 1945 -- 3. Representation, imperial citizenship and the political subject in late colonial Tanganyika -- 4. Patriotic citizenship and the case of the Kilimanjaro Chagga Citizens Union -- 5. Freedom in translation -- 6. Languages of democracy in Kilimanjaro and the fall of Marealle -- 7. One party democracy : citizenship and political society in the post-colonial state -- 8. Ujamaa and the Arusha Declaration -- Conclusion
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    ISBN: 9781107030398 , 9781107641969
    Language: English
    Pages: xv, 474 Seiten , Illustrationen
    Edition: 1. publ.
    Series Statement: Cambridge studies in social theory, religion and politics
    DDC: 306.2
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    Keywords: Philosophie ; Community organization Philosophy ; Citizenship ; Democracy ; Civil society ; Organisation ; Demokratie ; Zivilgesellschaft ; Demokratie ; Zivilgesellschaft ; Organisation
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781107039261 , 9781107682726 , 9781139600002
    Language: English
    Pages: 360 p.
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    DDC: 306.2
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    Keywords: Government accountability ; Political participation ; Political psychology ; Democracy ; Political culture ; Political culture ; Political participation ; Political psychology ; Democracy ; Government accountability ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; USA ; Politisches Verhalten ; Politische Kultur
    Abstract: This book re-evaluates Almond, Verba, and Pye's original ideas about the shape of a civic culture that supports democracy. Marshaling a massive amount of cross-national, longitudinal public opinion data from the World Values Survey Association, the authors demonstrate multiple manifestations of a deep shift in the mass attitudes and behaviors that undergird democracy. The chapters in this book show that in dozens of countries around the world, citizens have turned away from allegiance toward a decidedly 'assertive' posture to politics: they have become more distrustful of electoral politics, institutions, and representatives and are more ready to confront elites with demands from below. Most importantly, societies that have advanced the most in the transition from an allegiant to an assertive model of citizenship are better-performing democracies - in terms of both accountable and effective governance
    Abstract: Foreword: pushing the envelope: analyzing the impact of values / Marita R. Inglehart -- 1. Political culture and value change / Russell J. Dalton and Christian Welzel -- Part I: Changing Values. 2. Value change over a third of a century: the evidence for generational replacement / Paul R. Abramson ; 3. The decline of deference revisited: evidence after twenty-five years / Neil Nevitte ; 4. Enlightening people: the spark of emancipative values / Christian Welzel and Alejandro Moreno -- Part II:Changing Images of Government. 5. Reassessing the civic-culture model / Russell J. Dalton and Doh Chull Shin ; 6. Dissatisfied democrats: democratic maturation in old and new democracies / Hans-Dieter Klingemann ; 7. Support for democracy in postcommunist Europe and post Soviet Eurasia / Christian Haerpfer and Kseniya Kizilova -- Part III: The Impact of Cultural Change. 8. The structure and sources of global environmental attitudes / Robert Rohrschneider, Matthew Miles and Mark Peffley ; 9. Social change and the politics of protest / Tor Georg Jakobsen and Ola Listhaug ; 10. Mecca or oil?: why Arab states lag in gender equality / Pippa Norris ; 11. Allegiance eroding: people's dwindling willingness to fight in wars / Bi Puranen ; 12. From allegiant to assertive citizens / Christian Welzel and Russell J. Dalton
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139540919
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XXX, 441 Seiten)
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    DDC: 303.3/72
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    Keywords: Democracy ; Liberty ; Social values ; Social values ; Liberty ; Democracy ; Demokratie ; Emanzipation ; Freiheit der Person
    Abstract: This book presents a comprehensive theory of why human freedom gave way to increasing oppression since the invention of states - and why this trend began to reverse itself more recently, leading to a rapid expansion of universal freedoms and democracy. Drawing on a massive body of evidence, the author tests various explanations of the rise of freedom, providing convincing support of a well-reasoned theory of emancipation. The study demonstrates multiple trends toward human empowerment, which converge to give people control over their lives. Most important among these trends is the spread of 'emancipative values', which emphasize free choice and equal opportunities. The author identifies the desire for emancipation as the origin of the human empowerment trend and shows when and why this desire grows strong; why it is the source of democracy; and how it vitalizes civil society, feeds humanitarian norms, enhances happiness, and helps redirect modern civilization toward sustainable development
    Abstract: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; Part I. Understanding Emancipative Values: 1. A theory of emancipation; 2. Mapping differences; 3. Multi-level drivers; 4. Tracing change; Part II. Emancipative Values as a Civic Force: 5. Intrinsic wellbeing; 6. Benign individualism; 7. Collective action; Part III. Democratizing Impulses of Emancipative Values: 8. Entitling people; 9. The rights revolution; 10. The paradox of democracy; Part IV. Emancipative Values in Human Civilization: 11. The redirection of civilization; 12. The sustainability challenge; Conclusion
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  • 32
    ISBN: 9780511610042
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiii, 370 pages)
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    DDC: 303.3/8/0973
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    Keywords: Public opinion / United States ; Public opinion ; Democracy ; Political participation ; Politische Beteiligung ; Öffentliche Meinung ; USA ; USA ; USA ; Öffentliche Meinung ; Politische Beteiligung
    Abstract: Since so few people appear knowledgeable about public affairs, one might question whether collective policy preferences revealed in opinion surveys accurately convey the distribution of voices and interests in a society. This study, the first comprehensive treatment of the relationship between knowledge, representation, and political equality in opinion surveys, suggests some surprising answers. Knowledge does matter, and the way it is distributed in society can cause collective preferences to reflect disproportionately the opinions of some groups more than others. Sometimes collective preferences seem to represent something like the will of the people, but frequently they do not. Sometimes they rigidly enforce political equality in the expression of political viewpoints, but often they do not. The primary culprit is not any inherent shortcoming in the methods of survey research. Rather, it is the limited degree of knowledge held by ordinary citizens about public affairs. Accounting for these factors can help better appreciate thepossibilities for using opinion polls to represent the people's voice
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511613227
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 377 pages)
    Series Statement: Communication, society and politics
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    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Massenmedien ; Politik ; Mass media / Marketing ; Mass media / Political aspects ; Democracy ; Freedom of the press ; Demokratie ; Massenmedien ; Presse ; Massenmedien ; Demokratie ; Demokratie ; Presse
    Abstract: Government interventions in media markets are often criticized for preventing audiences from getting the media products they want. A free press is often asserted to be essential for democracy. The first point is incorrect and the second is inadequate as a policy guide. Part I of this book shows that unique aspects of media products prevent markets from providing for audience desires. Part II shows that four prominent, but different, theories of democracy lead to different conceptions of good journalistic practice, media policy, and proper constitutional principles. Part II makes clear that the choice among democratic theories is crucial for understanding what should be meant by free press. Part III explores international free trade in media products. Contrary to the dominant American position, it shows that Parts I and II's economic and democratic theory justify deviations from free trade in media products
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 0511012217 , 0511031580 , 0511046855 , 0511510152 , 0521791669 , 9780511012211 , 9780511031588 , 9780511046858 , 9780511510151 , 9780521791663
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (xx, 409 pages)
    Series Statement: Communication, society, and politics
    DDC: 302.2/0968
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    Keywords: LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Communication Studies ; Communication policy ; Democracy ; Massamedia ; Overheidsbeleid ; Democratie ; Démocratie / Afrique du Sud ; Politique de la communication / Afrique du Sud ; Médias / Afrique du Sud ; Demokratisierung ; Kommunikation ; Demokratie ; Medien ; Politik ; Communication policy ; Democracy ; Demokratisierung ; Kommunikationspolitik ; Südafrika (Staat) ; Südafrika ; Südafrika ; Kommunikationspolitik ; Demokratisierung
    Note: Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 , Includes bibliographical references (pages 359-393) and index , Tables; Preface and Acknowledgments; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Chapter 1 Introduction and Overview; Chapter 2 The Ancien Régime in the South African Communications Sector; Chapter 3 Sharing Power without Losing ControlŽ: Reform Apartheid and the New Politics of Resistance; Chapter 4 Control Will Not Pass to UsŽ: The Reform Process in Broadcasting; Chapter 5 All Shall CallŽ: The Telecommunications Reform Process; Chapter 6 Free but ResponsibleŽ: The Battle over the Press and the Reform of the South African Communication Service , The book examines the reform of the communication sector in South Africa in the transition from apartheid to democracy. It studies the complex political process by which broadcasting, telecommunications, the state information agency, and the print press were transformed from apartheid-aligned apparatuses to accountable democratic institutions
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139175289
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xv, 496 pages)
    Series Statement: Communication, society and politics
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    DDC: 302.23
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    Keywords: Massenmedien ; Politik ; Mass media / Political aspects ; Democracy ; Medien ; Demokratie ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Politischer Wandel ; Massenmedien ; Politisches System ; Vergleich ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Konferenzschrift ; Massenmedien ; Demokratie ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Demokratie ; Medien ; Vergleich ; Massenmedien ; Politischer Wandel ; Internationaler Vergleich ; Massenmedien ; Politisches System ; Internationaler Vergleich
    Abstract: This book presents a systematic overview and assessment of the impacts of politics on the media, and of the media on politics, in authoritarian, transitional and democratic regimes in Russia, Spain, Hungary, Chile, Italy, Great Britain, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, and the United States. Its analysis of the interactions between macro- and micro-level factors incorporates the disciplinary perspectives of political science, mass communications, sociology and social psychology. These essays show that media's effects on politics are the product of often complex and contingent interactions among various causal factors, including media technologies, the structure of the media market, the legal and regulatory framework, the nature of basic political institutions, and the characteristics of individual citizens. The authors' conclusions challenge a number of conventional wisdoms concerning the political roles and effects of the mass media on regime support and change, on the political behavior of citizens, and on the quality of democracy
    Description / Table of Contents: The media in democratic and nondemocratic regimes, a multilevel perspective / Anthony Mughan and Richard Gunther -- The media and politics in Spain, from dictatorship to democracy / Richard Gunther, José Ramón Montero, and José Ignacio Wert -- Institutional incapacity, the attentive public, and media pluralism in Russia / Ellen Mickiewicz -- Democratic transformation and the mass media in Hungary, from Stalinism to democratic consolidation / Miklós Sükösd -- The modernization of communications, the media in the transition to democracy in Chile / Eugenio Tironi and Guillermo Sunkel -- Media influence in the Italian transition from a consensual to a majoritarian democrarcy / Carlo Marletti and Franca Roncarolo -- The United States, news in a free-market society / Thomas E. Patterson -- Japan, news and politics in a media-saturated democracy / Ellis S. Krauss -- The Netherlands, media and politics between segmented pluralism and market forces / Cees van der Eijk -- Great Britain, the end of news at ten and the changing news environment / Holli A. Semetko -- Germany, a society and a media system in transition / Max Kaase -- The political impact of the media, a reassessment / Richard Gunther and Anthony Mughan
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9780511802072
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xxxiv, 248 pages)
    Series Statement: Cambridge texts in the history of political thought
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    Keywords: Arnold, Matthew ; Geschichte 1800-1900 ; Geschichte 1869 ; Culture ; Democracy ; Criticism ; Equality ; Industrielle Revolution ; Kulturkritik ; Kultur ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Demokratie ; Individuum ; Anarchie ; Gesellschaftskritik ; Staat ; Großbritannien ; Great Britain / Social conditions / 19th century ; Großbritannien ; Bibliografie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Quelle ; Bibliografie ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Quelle ; Großbritannien ; Industrielle Revolution ; Sozioökonomischer Wandel ; Staat ; Individuum ; Kultur ; Anarchie ; Großbritannien ; Kulturkritik ; Geschichte 1869 ; Arnold, Matthew 1822-1888 Culture and anarchy ; Demokratie ; Gesellschaftskritik
    Abstract: Matthew Arnold's Culture and Anarchy (1869) is one of the most celebrated works of social criticism ever written. It has become an inescapable reference-point for all subsequent discussion of the relations between politics and culture, and it has exercised a profound influence both on conceptions of the distinctive nature of British society, and on ideas about education and the teaching of literature more generally. This edition establishes the authoritative text of this much-revised work, and places it alongside Arnold's three most important essays on political subjects - Democracy, Equality, and The Function of Criticism at the Present Time. The editor's substantial introduction situates these works in the context both of Arnold's life and other writings, and of nineteenth-century intellectual and political history. This edition also contains a chronology of Arnold's life, a bibliographical guide and full notes on the names, books, and historical events mentioned in the texts
    Description / Table of Contents: Democracy (1861) -- The function of criticism at the present time (1864) -- Culture and anarchy (1867-9) -- 'Preface' to Culture and anarchy (1869) -- Equality (1878)
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    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
    ISBN: 9781139173902
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 online resource (xiv, 354 pages)
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    Keywords: Politik ; Elite (Social sciences) / Political activity / Latin America ; Elite (Social sciences) / Political activity / Europe, Southern ; Democracy ; Demokratisierung ; Politische Elite ; Elite ; Stabilität ; Lateinamerika ; Latin America / Politics and government ; Europe, Southern / Politics and government ; Lateinamerika ; Südeuropa ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Aufsatzsammlung ; Lateinamerika ; Demokratisierung ; Stabilität ; Politische Elite ; Südeuropa ; Demokratisierung ; Stabilität ; Politische Elite ; Lateinamerika ; Elite ; Südeuropa ; Elite
    Abstract: A distinguished group of scholars examine recent transitions to democracy and the prospects for democratic stability in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Portugal, Spain and Uruguay. They also assess the role of elites in the longer-established democratic regimes in Columbia, Costa Rica, Italy, Mexico and Venezuela. The authors conclude that in independent states with long records of political instability and authoritarian rule, democratic consolidation requires the achievement of elite 'consensual unity' - that is, agreement among all politically important elites on the worth of existing democratic institutions and respect for democratic rules-of-the-game, coupled with increased 'structural integration' among those elites. Two processes by which consensual unity can be established are explored - elite settlement, the negotiating of compromises on basic disagreements, and elite convergence, a more subtle series of tactical decisions by rival elites which have cumulative effect, over perhaps a generation
    Description / Table of Contents: Introduction : elite transformations and democratic regimes / Michael Burton, Richard Gunther, and John Higley -- Spain : the very model of the modern elite settlement / Richard Gunther -- Elite settlements and democratic consolidation : Colombia, Costa Rica, and Venezuela / John A. Peeler -- Mexico's elite settlement : conjecture and consequences / Alan Knight -- Elite unification and democratic consolidation in Italy : a historical overview / Maurizio Cotta -- The role of civil-military pacts in elite settlements and elite convergence : democratic consolidation in Uruguay / Charles Guy Gillespie -- Patterns of elite negotiation and confrontation in Argentina and Chile / Marcelo Cavarozzi -- Elites in an unconsolidated democracy : Peru during the 1980s / Henry Dietz -- Brazil's political transition / Thomas Bruneau -- Redefining the Portuguese transition to democracy / Lawrence S. Graham
    Description / Table of Contents: The Dominican case / Peter M. Sanchez -- Elites and democratic consolidation in Latin America and southern Europe : an overview / Michael Burton, Richard Gunther, and John Higley
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