Democracy Books

Book SynopsisThis volume brings together studies of the small number of previously established states that have retained and/or restored democracy despite - in many cases - formidable economic, social or political challenges. It seeks to establish common themes, whether or not they appear to fit a grand casual theory. It is, after all, the very adaptability of democratic systems that characterises their persistence, durability and resilience.Table of ContentsDemocratic society and its enemies, Anthony Arblaster; enduring elite democracy in Botswana, Kenneth Good; democracy in the Commonwealth Caribbean, Paul Sutton; why Costa Rica remains a democracy, Lloyd Pettiford; the possibility of democratic consolidation in Ghana, Jeff Haynes; parties and the people - India's changing party system and the resilience of democracy, Subrata Kumar Mitra; Israel's democracy at 50 - from resilience to residue?, Clive Jones; the consolidation of democracy in Mauritius, Barbara Wake Carroll, Terrance Carroll; survival of an imperfect democracy in the Phillippines, James Putzel; political space in South East Asia - Asian-Style and Other Democracies, Kevin Hewison; Venezuela - degenerative democaracy, Julia Buxton.

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Book SynopsisP. J. Rhodes's reader focuses on the political institutions, political activity, history, and nature of Athenian democracy and introduces some of the best British, American, German and French scholarship on its origins, theory and practice.Trade ReviewInvaluable... This collection will give students a much better idea of how we know what we think we know about the Athenian democracy, and will stimulate productive debates about how to go about increasing our knowledge and understanding of its history and character. Invaluable... This collection will give students a much better idea of how we know what we think we know about the Athenian democracy, and will stimulate productive debates about how to go about increasing our knowledge and understanding of its history and character.Table of ContentsPreface zz; Note to the Reader zz; Abbreviations zz; Maps zz;; General Introduction 1;; PART I POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS; Introduction to Part I; 1 Athenian Citizenship: The Descent Group and the Alternatives; John K. Davies; 2 How Did the Athenian Ecclesia Vote?; Mogens Herman Hansen; 3 Aristotle, the Kleroteria and the Courts; Sterling Dow; 4 Jury Pay and Assembly Pay at Athens; M. M. Markle; 5 Capital Punishment; Louis Gernet;; PART II POLITICAL ACTIVITY; 6 Athenian Demagogues; M. I. Finley; 7 Political Activity in Classical Athens; P. J. Rhodes; 8 Competitive Festivals and the Polis: A Context for Dramatic Festivals at Athens; Robin Osborne;; 9 Public and Private Interests in Classical Athens; S. C. Humphreys;; PART III MOMENTS IN HISTORY; 10 Solon, 'Founding Father' of the Athenian Democracy; Claude Mosse; 11 The Athenian Revolution of 508/7 BC: Violence, Authority and the Origins of Democracy; Josiah Ober;; 12 Cleisthenes and Attica; David M. Lewis; 13 Ephialtes, Eisangelia and the Council; Raphael Sealey;; PART IV A VIEW OF DEMOCRACY; 14 The Greeks: The Political Revolution in World History; Christian Meier;; Intellectual Chronology; Guide to Further Reading; Bibliography of works cited by Editor; Index.

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Book SynopsisP. J. Rhodes's reader focuses on the political institutions, political activity, history, and nature of Athenian democracy and introduces some of the best British, American, German and French scholarship on its origins, theory and practice.Trade ReviewInvaluable... This collection will give students a much better idea of how we know what we think we know about the Athenian democracy, and will stimulate productive debates about how to go about increasing our knowledge and understanding of its history and character. Invaluable... This collection will give students a much better idea of how we know what we think we know about the Athenian democracy, and will stimulate productive debates about how to go about increasing our knowledge and understanding of its history and character.Table of ContentsPreface zz; Note to the Reader zz; Abbreviations zz; Maps zz;; General Introduction 1;; PART I POLITICAL INSTITUTIONS; Introduction to Part I; 1 Athenian Citizenship: The Descent Group and the Alternatives; John K. Davies; 2 How Did the Athenian Ecclesia Vote?; Mogens Herman Hansen; 3 Aristotle, the Kleroteria and the Courts; Sterling Dow; 4 Jury Pay and Assembly Pay at Athens; M. M. Markle; 5 Capital Punishment; Louis Gernet;; PART II POLITICAL ACTIVITY; 6 Athenian Demagogues; M. I. Finley; 7 Political Activity in Classical Athens; P. J. Rhodes; 8 Competitive Festivals and the Polis: A Context for Dramatic Festivals at Athens; Robin Osborne;; 9 Public and Private Interests in Classical Athens; S. C. Humphreys;; PART III MOMENTS IN HISTORY; 10 Solon, 'Founding Father' of the Athenian Democracy; Claude Mosse; 11 The Athenian Revolution of 508/7 BC: Violence, Authority and the Origins of Democracy; Josiah Ober;; 12 Cleisthenes and Attica; David M. Lewis; 13 Ephialtes, Eisangelia and the Council; Raphael Sealey;; PART IV A VIEW OF DEMOCRACY; 14 The Greeks: The Political Revolution in World History; Christian Meier;; Intellectual Chronology; Guide to Further Reading; Bibliography of works cited by Editor; Index.

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Book SynopsisDemocracy: Problems and Perspectives provides a critical review of the scholarly and political debates about democratic thought and of arguments about democratic practice. On the basis of an interpretation of Immanuel Kant''s political philosophy, the book presents democracy as a regime type in which citizens, who are united to give law, rule themselves and where such self-rule is exercised by citizens who embrace local and global patriotism. In the course of developing this idea of democracy, the book addresses issues such as human rights and their relationship to democracy; the policy of the global promotion of human rights and democracy; sovereignty and the nation-state; popular sovereignty and multicultural citizenship; and cosmopolitanism and cosmopolitan democracy. The book will stimulate controversial discussions about the varieties of democratic imaginations and visions, past and present as well as the future of democracy in the current stage of globalisation.Trade ReviewA wide-ranging and thought-provoking survey of key problems of contemporary democratic politics. Axtmann applies democratic theory in a fresh and illuminating way to the hotly-debated issues of sovereignty, human rights and multicultural politics -- Dr. John Schwarzmantel, University of Leeds A wide-ranging and thought-provoking survey of key problems of contemporary democratic politics. Axtmann applies democratic theory in a fresh and illuminating way to the hotly-debated issues of sovereignty, human rights and multicultural politicsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Preface; 1. Kant's Republicanism and the Cosmopolitan Persuasion; Kant's Republicanism and the 'Moral Personality' of States; The Sovereign Equality of States, Peaceful Coexistence and the International Constitution; Kant's Cosmopolitanism; Cicero's Republicanism and Stoic Cosmopolitanism: Kant in Comparison; John Rawls and Jurgen Habermas: Alternative Ways of Understanding Kant's Cosmopolitanism; 2. The Languages of Human Rights and the Liberal Dialect; The Many Voices of the Human Rights Discourse; Human Rights as the New Standard of Civilisation; Human Rights and Democracy: Liberal Perspectives; 3. The Globalisation of Democracy: The Right to Democratic Governance; The Entitlement to Democratic Governance in International Law and International Politics; The Ideology of Democracy Promotion; Excursus: Prerequisites and Causes of Democratisation; 4. Sovereignty and Democracy; Conceptual Distinctions; The Politics of the Sovereignty Discourse; 'Domestic Sovereignty' as 'Popular Sovereignty'; 5. Liberal Democracy between Multiculturalism and Globalisation; From 'Demos' to 'Demoi': Multiculturalism and Democracy; Globalisation and Democracy; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisIntroduces and explores the varieties of democratic imaginations and visions, past and presentTrade ReviewA wide-ranging and thought-provoking survey of key problems of contemporary democratic politics. Axtmann applies democratic theory in a fresh and illuminating way to the hotly-debated issues of sovereignty, human rights and multicultural politics -- Dr. John Schwarzmantel, University of Leeds A wide-ranging and thought-provoking survey of key problems of contemporary democratic politics. Axtmann applies democratic theory in a fresh and illuminating way to the hotly-debated issues of sovereignty, human rights and multicultural politicsTable of ContentsAcknowledgements; Preface; 1. Kant's Republicanism and the Cosmopolitan Persuasion; Kant's Republicanism and the 'Moral Personality' of States; The Sovereign Equality of States, Peaceful Coexistence and the International Constitution; Kant's Cosmopolitanism; Cicero's Republicanism and Stoic Cosmopolitanism: Kant in Comparison; John Rawls and Jurgen Habermas: Alternative Ways of Understanding Kant's Cosmopolitanism; 2. The Languages of Human Rights and the Liberal Dialect; The Many Voices of the Human Rights Discourse; Human Rights as the New Standard of Civilisation; Human Rights and Democracy: Liberal Perspectives; 3. The Globalisation of Democracy: The Right to Democratic Governance; The Entitlement to Democratic Governance in International Law and International Politics; The Ideology of Democracy Promotion; Excursus: Prerequisites and Causes of Democratisation; 4. Sovereignty and Democracy; Conceptual Distinctions; The Politics of the Sovereignty Discourse; 'Domestic Sovereignty' as 'Popular Sovereignty'; 5. Liberal Democracy between Multiculturalism and Globalisation; From 'Demos' to 'Demoi': Multiculturalism and Democracy; Globalisation and Democracy; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis textbook brings together an introduction to the political theory of democracy since Ancient times and a critical picture of its place in Britain today.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Part 1: Theory; 1. Representation, Liberty and Democracy; 2. The Origins of Democracy; 3. The Emergence of Representative Democracy; Part 2: Practice; 4. The Westminster Model; 5. Critiques of British Democracy; 6. The Remedies; 7. Conclusion: The Puzzle of Participation.

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Book SynopsisIn an era where citizens of liberal democracies are becoming increasingly disillusioned, dissatisfied and disenfranchised by the dominant political institutions and decision-making processes in these polities, new ideas of how to deepen democracy, re-engage citizens and enhance decision-making legitimacy are required. This book suggests that a combination of deliberative democracy and associational democracy is both a normatively desirable and an empirically plausible solution to the complex problems that are present in contemporary societies--as well as being compatible with many recent trends in governance. Author Stephen Elstub argues that by combining deliberative with associational democracy, the weaknesses of each model alone are compensated by the other, allowing the key strengths of each to manifest themselves. And he goes further by offering a detailed set of original, institutional requirements for liberal democracies that, if adopted, will enable a deliberative and associational democracy to be realised in practice.Table of ContentsIntroduction; 1. Cultivating Autonomy: The Normative Core of Democracy; 2. Deliberative Democracy and Autonomous Decision-Making; 3. Institutionalising Deliberative Democracy through Secondary Associations; 4. A Dualist Model of Deliberative and Associational Democracy; 5. Democratising Secondary Associations; 6. Avoiding the Mischief of Faction; Conclusion

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Book SynopsisAn analysis of the phenomenon of political violence and its implications for democratic politicsTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements; 1. Conflict and Community; 2. Forms and Nature of Political Violence; 3. The State and Violence; 4. Democracy and Terrorism; 5. Ethnic and Nationalist Violence and Democracy; 6. Violence and the Installation of Democracy; 7. Culture, Violence and Democracy; 8. Democracy in Times of Risk and Uncertainty; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisAn analysis of the phenomenon of political violence and its implications for democratic politicsTable of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements; 1. Conflict and Community; 2. Forms and Nature of Political Violence; 3. The State and Violence; 4. Democracy and Terrorism; 5. Ethnic and Nationalist Violence and Democracy; 6. Violence and the Installation of Democracy; 7. Culture, Violence and Democracy; 8. Democracy in Times of Risk and Uncertainty; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisThis book explores the relationship between democracy and republicanism, and its consequences; and articulates new theoretical insights into connections between liberty, law and democratic politics.Table of ContentsIntroduction; Andreas Niederberger & Philipp Schink; Part 1: Classic Republicanism and Democracy; 1. The Tension Between Law and Politics in the Modern Republican Tradition, Marco Geuna, Associate Professor of History of Political Philosophy at the Department of Philosophy of the University of Milan; 2. The Idea of a Kantian Republicanism, Matthias Lutz-Bachmann, Professor of Philosophy at the Johann Wolfang Goethe-University, Frankfurt/Main; 3. Impotence, Perspicuity, and a Government of Laws: Madison's Critique of Republican Legislation, Jack N. Rakove, W.R. Coe Professor of History and American Studies and Professor of Political Science at Stanford University; Part 2: Democracy and Politics; 4. Political Republicanism, John P. McCormick, Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago; 5. Alternative Conceptions of Republicanism: Legal Consequences, John Ferejohn, was Professor of Political Science at Stanford University and has been a regular visiting Professor at NYU Law School from 1993 to the present; 6. A Republican Conception of Justice, Rainer Forst, Professor of Political Theory and Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University, Frankfurt/M; 7. Legal Formations and Democratic Citizens in Republican Theory, Galya B. Ruffer, founder of the Center for Forced Migration Studies at the Buffet Center for International and Comparative Studies at Northwestern University and the Director of the International Studies Program; 8. Neorepublicanism and Global Justice: Extram rempublicam nulla iustitia?, Cecile Laborde, Professor of Political Theory at the University College London; Part 3: Democracy and Law; 9. A Republican Rule of Law?, Philipp Schink, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main; 10. Should Republicans Believe in Rights Based Constitutional Judicial Review?, Richard Bellamy, Professor of Political Science, UCL; 11. Republicanism and Transnational Democracy, Andreas Niederberger, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe-University Frankfurt/Main (Germany); 12. Living without Freedom: The Rule of Law, James Bohman, Danforth I Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Philosophy and Professor of International Studies at St Louis University; Part 4: Conclusion; 13. Two Concepts of Republican Law, Liberty and Politics, Philip Pettit, Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics and Human Values at Princeton University.

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Book SynopsisSocial democracy is in office almost nowhere in Europe and appears bereft of ideas in the face of the economic crisis that might have given it a historic opportunity. This book examines the fortunes of social democracy in western and east-central Europe and the policy challenges in economic policy, labour markets, and social welfare.

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Book Synopsis10 years after the eruption of the Arab revolutions, El Mustapha Lahlali explores the dialectical relationship between discourse and social change during and post the conflict. In particular, the book examines how Arabic public and political discourse shapes and is shaped by the wider social, cultural and political environment. Analysing the dialogue of various actors, Islamic parties and stakeholder ? as well as marginalised voices ? Arabic Political Discourse in Transition identifies the key linguistic strategies and features used to frame, represent and position oneself at times of conflict.

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Book SynopsisSonja Theron is a part-time lecturer in the Department of Political Sciences, University of Pretoria and a researcher at the Centre for Mediation in Africa, University of Pretoria, South Africa.Trade ReviewThis is a remarkable book, providing a cogent analysis to a complex question about how a state that was born of a long history of war can graduate from political and social fracturing in order to forge a nation-state and a sense of collective nationhood. The book has advanced to a new level the debate about the role of political leadership in state-building and nation-building in Africa’s newest country and filling an important gap in the literature on South Sudan. It is part political history, part sociology and largely deep ethnography about how people live with and overcome daunting ravages of more than half a century of vicious and devastating Sudanese state violence, fratricidal violence, and politico-military rivalries between the leaders. Sonja Theron has demonstrated how challenging and yet important it is to define such terms as “leadership”, “political will” and “national identity” in their historical specificity and contingency. She convincingly argues that South Sudan is trapped between efforts to build a nation out of multitude of competing entities and the ambition by some groups, regions, and cultural identities to remain autonomous. The result is a brilliant expose of a long struggle for freedom that has now culminated in an independent state but being hamstrung by divisions that are rooted in that long history of conflict, violence and war. This book is a must read for anyone wishing to understand, not just this complex political and social history, but also the difficult question of whether South Sudan will survive as a viable nation. * Professor Jok Madut Jok, Syracuse University, USA *This is an important contribution to scholarly work seeking to understand why South Sudan has been unable to build a nation that sustains peace. It also makes for stark reading for those working on peacebuilding efforts in the country and beyond. Theron skilfully interrogates South Sudan’s chaotic and destructive leadership patterns and processes and how these have prevented any chance of peace. Her book untangles the complex realities of how nation and state-building efforts, whether in South Sudan or elsewhere are held hostage to the violent competing visions of a country’s political elites. Theron’s book comes at an opportune time in the arduous effort to secure a viable future for South Sudan after the painstakingly crafted 2018 peace agreement. Her insights are a reminder of what is at stake for this young country: if dangerously repetitive leadership patterns of relying on coercion, rewards and identity to create state and nationhood are not replaced with societal trust, mutuality, or collective responsibility – key ingredients for peacebuilding – fragmentation, violence and war will continue to mar the South Sudan’s progress. * Comfort Ero, President and CEO of Crisis Group *Table of ContentsIntroduction PART ONE: Origins: The Southern Sudan as People, Polity and “Problem” (c. 1821-1983) Conquest and Colonisation Independence and Rebellion PART TWO: The War Continues: The Fight for Nation and State (1983 – 2002) War and New Leadership Inner Turmoil PART THREE: Independence and Civil War: Building a State, Forgetting a Nation (2002 – 2015) Negotiating and Implementing Peace Freedom, Fragility and Fragmentation Conclusion

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Book SynopsisIn recent years serious concerns emerged over the state of European democracy. Many democracy indices are reporting a year-on-year drift towards less liberal politics in the countries of the European Union. Polls regularly suggest that the voters are coming to question democratic norms more seriously than for many decades. Here, Richard Youngs assesses these risks as many analysts, journalists and politicians stressed the danger of Europe descending into an era of conflict, driven by xenophobic nationalism and nativist authoritarians slowly dismantling liberal democratic rights. In 2020, the Covid-19 pandemic has intensified these fears. There is another side of the democratic equation, however. Youngs argues that governments, EU institutions, political parties, citizens and civil society organisations have gradually begun to push back in defence of democracy. With each chapter, Youngs shows how many governmental, political and social actors have developed responses to Europe's democraTrade ReviewA lot of great works have been devoted to democratic backsliding, the surge of populism and the rule of law crisis in Europe. The great strength of this book is that it looks at how we can fight back and gives an insightful overview of innovative forces that are reinvigorating politics and resisting autocratization, on both the national and European Union levels. A great read for analysts interested in the resilience of our democracies, and also for us practitioners, so that we can inspire each other in our quest to rebuild European democracy. * Katalin Cseh, MEP of Hungary's Momentum Movement, Vice-Chair of the European Parliament's Renew Europe group *There is immense concern today about the troubles facing democracy in Europe. While most scholars and commentators have focused on analyzing the causes of the troubles, Rebuilding European Democracy examines the resistance to democratic decay and budding attempts to renew democracy from within. Revitalizing democracy in Europe and across the globe requires understanding the reasons for democratic dissatisfaction as well as coming up with effective responses to it. Rebuilding European Democracy is an important contribution to this latter effort. * Professor Sheri Berman, Barnard College, Columbia University, USA *Table of Contents1. Introduction 2. Measuring the challenges to European democracy 3. Citizen responses: the people mobilise 4. Government responses: democratic consultation on the rise 5. Political party responses: democratic realignment? 6. Digital responses: reclaiming tech for democracy 7. EU responses I: taking on illiberal democracy 8. EU responses II: towards a democratic union? 9. Pathways to European democratic renovation

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Book Synopsis Curing the causes and consequences of Trumpism It''s no secret that the United States faces extraordinary political and societal challenges, even as it recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic. Political polarization and extremism are the most apparent symptoms, resulting from long-term economic and social inequities as well as a toxic information ecosystem. It is easy to blame Donald Trump for the sad state of American democracy. After all, he abused his executive authority, spread false claims, and even incited violence. But Trumpism is almost certain to outlast Trump himself. The grievances he exploited and the aggrieved to whom he appealed existed well before he became president and likely will endure after he is gone from the political scene. The current political atmosphere is poisonous for those who operate on the basis of facts, reason, and logic. It is time to step back from this dangerous precipice and reflect on the causes of the serious threats to American democracy, procedural justice, and a reason-based society. With polarization now entrenched and authoritarianism gaining strength, no one should assume that facts somehow will triumph over falsehoods and reason will prevail over emotion. Drawing on his personal experiences in the D.C. policy world, Darrell West offers advice for protecting people, organizations, and the country as a whole from our contemporary challenges. This book makes the risks to democracy understandable by explaining specific threats and offering concrete ideas for ameliorating them. It will appeal to anyone interested in American politics, democracy, elections, mass media, technology, and governance.

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Book SynopsisUplifting. . . . O'Rourke gets an A-plus on both the moral frisson of the long fight and the rightness of the cause. . . . The happy warrior from Texas is inspiring. --The Washington PostActivist and political leader Beto O'Rourke blends history, sociology, and travelogue for a thrilling, inspiring case for how voting rights is essential to a productive and healthy democracy.In We've Got To Try, O'Rourke shines a spotlight on the heroic life and work of Dr. Lawrence Aaron Nixon and the west Texas town where he made his stand. The son of an enslaved man, Nixon grew up in the Confederate stronghold of Marshall, Texas before moving to El Paso, becoming a civil rights leader, and helping to win one of the most significant civil and voting rights victories in American history: the defeat of the all-white primary. His fight for the ballot spanned 20 years and twice took him to the U.S. Supreme Court.With heart, eloquence, and powerful storytell

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Book SynopsisOffering a broad exploration of the cultural history of democracy in the medieval age, this volume claims that, though not generally associated with the term, the Middle Ages deserve to be included in a general history of democracy. The term was never widely employed during this period, the dominant attitude towards democracy was outright hostility, and none of the medieval polities thought of itself as a democracy. Despite this, this study highlights a wide variety of ideas, practices, procedures, and institutions that, although different from their ancient predecessor (direct democracy) or modern successor (liberal representative democracy), played a significant role in the history of democracy. This volume covers almost 1,000 years and a wide range of territories. It deals with different political spheres (ecclesiastical and secular) and socio-political settings (courtly, urban, and rural) and examines the phenomenon from the local level up to the universal realm. This voTable of ContentsList of Illustrations General Editor's Preface Introduction David Napolitano (Leiden University, Netherlands) and Kenneth J. Pennington (Catholic University of America, USA) 1. Sovereignty Kenneth J. Pennington (Catholic University of America, USA) 2. Liberty and the Rule of Law Atria A. Larson (Saint Louis University, USA) 3. The Common Good Jan Dumolyn (Ghent University, Belgium) 4. Economic and Social Democracy Peter Hoppenbrouwers (Leiden University, Netherlands) 5. Religion and the Principles of Political Obligation Joseph Canning (University of Cambridge, UK) 6. Citizenship and Gender Edward Muir (Northwestern University, USA) 7. Ethnicity, Race, and Nationalism Walter Pohl (University of Vienna, Austria) 8. Democratic Crises, Revolutions, and Civil Resistance Jelle Haemers (University of Leuven, Belgium) 9. International Relations Dante Fedele (French National Center for Scientific Research, France) 10. Beyond the Polis Gianluca Raccagni (University of Edinburgh, UK) Notes References Notes on Contributors Index

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Book SynopsisThis volume offers a broad exploration of the cultural history of democracy in the Renaissance. The Renaissance has rarely been considered an important moment in the history of democracy. Nonetheless, as this volume shows, this period may be seen as a democratic laboratory in many, often unexpected, ways. The classicizing cultural movement known as humanism, which spread throughout Europe and beyond in this period, had the effect of vastly enhancing knowledge of the classical democratic and republican traditions. Greek history and philosophy, including the story of Athenian democracy, became fully known in the West for the first time in the postclassical world. Partly as a result of this, the period from 1400 to 1650 witnessed rich and historically important debates on some of the enduring political issues at the heart of democratic culture: issues of sovereignty, of liberty, of citizenship, of the common good, of the place of religion in government. At the same time, the inTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Notes on Contributors Series Preface Introduction Virginia Cox (New York University, USA) and Joanne Paul (University of Sussex, UK) 1. Sovereignty Dan Lee (University of California, Berkeley, USA) 2. Liberty and the Rule of Law Peter Stacey (University of California, LA, USA) 3. The “Common Good” Simone Maghenzani (Girton College, University of Cambridge, UK) 4. Economic and Social Democracy Anna K. Becker (Aarhus University, Denmark) 5. Religion and the Principles of Political Obligation Ethan H. Shagan (University of California, Berkeley, USA) 6. Citizenship and Gender Virginia Cox (New York University, USA) 7. Ethnicity, Race and Nationalism Peter Stamatov (Yale University, USA) 8. Democratic Crises, Revolutions and Civil Resistance David Ragazzoni (Columbia University, USA) 9. International Relations Kurosh Meshkat (BL-Qatar Foundation Project) 10. Beyond the Polis, Transforming Sovereignty Kirsty Rolfe (Leiden University, Netherlands) Notes Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book brings a dynamic approach to Turkish politics by showing how political struggles operate via narratives and how ideas, institutions and narratives interact.

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Book SynopsisExplores how legitimacy should be treated in countries where authoritarian alternatives to democracy lack credibility

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Book SynopsisExplores how grief can help to negotiate our loss of affect for liberal democracy

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Book SynopsisTrade ReviewRevealing panorama ... Denyer explores issues through well-told stories of activists, officials, crusading lawyers, and grandstanding television journalists who are fighting to expose and correct abuses, sometimes at considerable peril ... The pervasive misrule that Denyer highlights is outrageous, but he balances it with hopeful signs that India’s democracy can respond to popular pressure. Avoiding clichéd notions of India as either South Asian super-tiger or eternal basketcase, Denyer’s sharp-eyed reportage and analysis convey both the size of India’s problems and the strength of efforts to remedy them * Publishers Weekly *

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Book SynopsisBig Media, Big Money is a lively and scathing critique of the contemporary communications industry, examining how media ownership and the profit-making motive affect the messages we receive in alarming ways. Through close readings of recent news events and critical examination of corporate influence, Bettig and Hall conclude that current interconnections among media, big business, government, and education pose a serious threat to democratic communications. The second edition includes three new chapters, covering the contemporary Hollywood film industry; the changing landscape of the music industry; and ad creep, the proliferation of advertising into previously ad-free venues such as schools and children's television programming.Trade ReviewIn Big Media, Big Money, Ronald Bettig and Jeanne Hall have brought their careers' worth of experience together to produce perhaps the single best exposition of the political economy of the media that I have seen. It is a thrilling, provocative, and highly original book that weaves issues like the commercialization of education into the narrative. I recommend it unconditionally for classroom use. -- Robert W. McChesney, author, Blowing the Roof Off the Twenty-First Century: Media, Politics, and the StruggleBettig and Hall have done it again! The second edition of Big Media, Big Money expands and updates the original’s engaging overview of the American media system and its intermixture of new and traditional technologies. Big Media, Big Money explains how the concentration of ownership, the structure of media companies, and advertisers’ demands combine to limit what can be asked, said, or depicted in the media. Given the emphasis on what we can do from the grass roots to remedy this situation, this book is particularly relevant and timely. -- Eileen R. Meehan, Southern Illinois UniversityThe new edition of Big Media, Big Money could not have come at a more important time. This may be the most important book written on the various ways in which power, capital, and politics combine to undermine the media saturated culture that is undoing any vestige of democratic values, identities, and hopes. But this is more than a powerful criticism of the media in its multiple variants, it is also a road map for citizens who want to fight back, who believe that a critical and informed formative culture is fundamental to any viable notion of democracy. Any one who wants to understand the both the destructive power and democratic possibilities of the media in today's world has to read this book. -- Henry Giroux, Global Television Network Chair in Communication Studies, McMaster UniversityTable of ContentsChapter 1 Introduction: Beat the Press Chapter 2 Media Merger Mania: Concentration in the Media Industry Chapter 3 The Hollywood Film Industry: Do We Really Need It? Chapter 4 The Music Industry: The Payer Calls the Tune Chapter 5 The News and Advertising Industries: All the News That Fits Chapter 6 Ad Creep: The Commercialization of Culture Chapter 7 The Commercialization of Education: Students for Sale Chapter 8 Media and Democracy: Taking it to the Streets Acknowledgments

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Book SynopsisExplores the historical and theoretical relationships between democracy and republicanism, and their consequences. This book critically assesses conceptions of democracy in different republican traditions.Table of ContentsIntroduction, Andreas Niederberger and Philipp Schink; 1. The Tension between Law and Politics in the Modern Republican Tradition, Marco Geuna; 2. Impotence, Perspicuity, and the Rule of Law: James Madison's Critique of Republican Legislation, Jack Rakove; 3. Kant, Madison and the Problem of Transnational Order: Popular Sovereignty in Multilevel Systems, James Bohman; 4. Republicanism and Democracy, John P. McCormick; 5. Two Views of the City: Republicanism and Law, John Ferejohn; 6. A Kantian Republican Conception of Justice as Non Domination, Rainer Forst; 7. Two Republican Traditions, Philip Pettit; 8. Freedom, Control and the State, Philipp Schink; 9. Legal Modes and Democratic Citizens in Republican Theory, Galya Benarieh Ruffer; 10. Rights, Republicanism and Democracy, Richard Bellamy; 11. Republicanism and Global Justice: a Sketch, Cecile Laborde; 12. Republicanism and Transnational Democracy, Andreas Niederberger; List of Contributors.

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Book SynopsisDubreuil provocatively proposes an extremist rethinking of the limits of politics toward a break from politics, the political and policies. He calls for a refusal of politics, suggesting a form of apolitics that would make our lives more liveable.

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Book SynopsisThe first full account of the historic change in Turkey between 2007 and 2011, and the only scholarly description of the new order in the immediate aftermath of the change from 2011.

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Book SynopsisCharting and comparing Tunisia's, Algeria's, Morocco's and Mauritania's political development over the past 10 years, this book offers fresh and original insight into their contrasting experiences as well as extending Levitsky and Way's model.

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Book SynopsisThis edited volume provides the first comprehensive introduction to and critical exploration of the constructivist turn in political representation, the reorientation of scholarship on mass democracy toward the constitutive or mobilizing aspects of political representation.

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Book SynopsisThis book acknowledges the severe problems with effective and significant collective action, but arrives at a more optimistic diagnosis of our time by rethinking the political from the angle of the experiences with progressive and conservative collective action in different parts of the globe: Brazil, South Africa and Europe.

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Book SynopsisThis book acknowledges the severe problems with effective and significant collective action, but arrives at a more optimistic diagnosis of our time by rethinking the political from the angle of the experiences with progressive and conservative collective action in different parts of the globe: Brazil, South Africa and Europe.

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Book SynopsisAlexandros Kioupkiolis re-conceptualises the common in tandem with the political. By engaging with key thinkers of community and the commons, including Nancy, Ostrom, Hardt and Negri, together with poststructuralist conceptions of agonism and hegemony from Mouffe and Laclau, he remedies problematic issues of power relations and division.Table of ContentsPreface: The Long Run; Acknowledgements; 1. Commoning the Political, Politicising the Common: Community and the Political in J. L. Nancy, R. Esposito, G. Agamben, E. Laclau and C. Mouffe; 2. From the Commons to Another Politics of Egalitarian Autonomy: Common Pool Resources, Digital and Anticapitalist Commons, from E. Ostrom to Marxist Autonomism; 3. Common and Communism: Political Theories For Radical Change: from Hardt & Negri, Dardot & Laval to Badiou and Žižek; 4. Taking on Hegemony and the Political; 5. Reclaiming Post-Marxist Hegemony for the Commons; 6. Movements Post-Hegemony; 7. Common Democracy: Political Representation and Government as Commons; Endnotes; References.

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Book SynopsisThrough analysis of a series of case studies, recently declassified documents and exclusive interviews with national security experts in the public and private sectors, the book provides an in-depth and illuminating appraisal of the evolving accountability regime for intelligence contractors.

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Book SynopsisBuilding on critical and contemporary theory, these essays address the multiple ways in which the Turkish regime controls its citizens through physical destruction, structural violence and exposure. The 12 case studies include counterinsurgency warfare, enforced disappearances, cemeteries, monuments, prisons, courts and the army.

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Book SynopsisIslamic political movements utilise vastly different means to pursue their goals. This book examines why some Islamic movements facing the same socio-political structures pursue different political paths, while their counterparts in diverse contexts make similar political choices.

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Book SynopsisOur political climate is increasingly characterised by hostility towards constructed others. Gormley answers the question: what does it mean to do justice to others? In developing this account, he places deliberative theory and deconstruction into critical conversation with the work of Mouffe, Aristotle, Rorty, Laclau and critical theory.

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Book SynopsisProposes a framework of Muslim democracy that reconciles public claims made by Muslims with the normative and practical demands of democratic regimes.Trade Review"A very cutting-edge and path-breaking work in the field. There are many political science texts on the phenomenon of Muslim democracy" but this may be the first book that treats it as political theory or ideology. This will be a very important and influential book."" -Andrew F. March, Professor of Political Science, University of Massachusetts

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Book SynopsisFrom women’s suffrage to Civil Rights for African Americans, to the environment, and the gay and lesbian liberation movement, the American Left has achieved notable successes in the 20th and 21st centuries. Sometimes celebrated and sometimes reviled, the Left has taken on many forms and reinvented itself many times over the past century. In All-American Rebellion, historian Robert Cottrell traces the rise and fall, ebb and flow of left-wing American movements. Following an overview of early 20th century movements, Cottrell focuses on the 1960s to today, offering readers a concise introduction and helping them to understand the political and ideological roots of the Left today. Cottrell includes chapters on the most recent versions of the American left, discussing community organizing, gay liberation, the women’s movement, the Campaign for Economic Democracy, the nuclear freeze movement, opposition to U.S. intervention in Central America, the anti-WTO campaign, Code Pink, Occupy Wall Street, Black Lives Matter, Antifa, and more. The demand for and support of democracy and the quest for empowerment in various guises unifies these different lefts to one another and to the general unfolding of American history. Cottrell argues that democratic engagement has proven inconsistent and at times outright contradictory. The Left has been most successful when it fully embraces a democratic vision.

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Book SynopsisThis timely anthology gathers forty historical and contemporary treatments of democracy. Short introductions precede each reading and a general introduction increase student comprehension across the spectrum of readings. The volume is ideal for both the undergraduate and graduate students in political theory and philosophy courses.

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Book SynopsisIn DISSENT, award-winning investigative journalist Jackie Calmes brings readers closer to the truth of who Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh is, where he came from, and how he and the Republican party at large managed to secure one of the highest seats of power in the land.Kavanaugh's rise to the justice who solidified conservative control of the supreme court is a story of personal achievement, but also a larger, political tale: of the Republican Party's movement over four decades toward the far right, and its parallel campaign to dominate the government's judicial branch as well as the other two.And Kavanaugh uniquely personifies this history. Fourteen years before reaching the Supreme Court, during a three-year fight for a seat on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals, Democratic Senator Dick Durbin would say to Kavanaugh, "It seems that you are the Zelig or Forrest Gump of Republican politics. You show up at every scene of the crime."Featuring revelatory new reporting and exclusive interviews, DISSENT is a harrowing look into the highest echelons of political power in the United States, and a captivating survey of the people who will do anything to have it.

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Book SynopsisOver the last two decades, a fringe plan to call a convention under the Constitution's amendment mechanism-the nation's first ever-has inched through statehouses. Delegates, like those in Philadelphia two centuries ago, would exercise nearly unlimited authority to draft changes to our fundamental law, potentially altering anything from voting and free speech rights to regulatory and foreign policy powers. Such a watershed moment would present great danger, and for some, great power.In this important book, Feingold and Prindiville distill extensive legal and historical research and examine the grave risks inherent in this effort. But they also consider the role of constitutional amendment in modern life. Though many focus solely on judicial and electoral avenues for change, such an approach is at odds with a cornerstone ideal of the Founding: that the People make constitutional law, directly. In an era defined by faction and rejection of long-held norms, The Constitution in Jeopardy examines the nature of constitutional change and asks urgent questions about what American democracy is, and should be.

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