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Balancing democracy / edited by Roland Axtmann.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy.
- Civil society.
- Globalization.
- Physical Description:
- xii, 319 pages ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Continuum, 2001.
- Summary:
- Addressing one of the classical concerns of comparative politics, the formation and maintenance of stable democracies, Balancing Democracy will be of interest to students taking courses in comparative politics and democratization as well as to general reader, concerned with democratic developments in the twenty-first century.
- Written by a specially commissioned group of international experts, this volume provides an attempt at detecting socio-political trends, highlighting chances for further democratization and dangers to democratic stability.
- Contents:
- 1 Introduction I: Balancing Democracy in Political Science / Roland Axtmann 1
- 2 Introduction II: Between Polycentricity and Globalization: Democratic Governance in Europe / Roland Axtmann 33
- 3 Nationalism, Territoriality and Democracy / Derek Urwin 57
- 4 Transnational Migration, the Liberal State and Citizenship / Jeroen Doomernik, Roland Axtmann 76
- 5 Democracy, Multiculturalism and the Politics of Difference / Barry Hindess 90
- 6 Constitutional Reform and Democratic Renewal in the United Kingdom / Michael Dyer 107
- 7 Majorities, Minorities and Democratic Governance: The Disuniting of Canada? / Peter Leslie 125
- 8 The State, Democracy and Citizenship in Australia / Alastair Davidson 158
- 9 Political Parties and Civil Society in India / Subrata Kumar Mitra 176
- 10 The Prospects for Sustainable Democracy in Post-apartheid South Africa / Thembisa Waetjen, Martin J. Murray 195
- 11 A Future for Democracy in Russia? / Klaus von Beyme 214
- 12 Democracy and Civil Society in Central and Eastern Europe / Mary Kaldor, Zdenek Kavan 239
- 13 Between the Local and the Global: Democracy in the Twenty-first Century / Paul Hirst 255
- 14 The European Parliament and Democracy in the European Union / Julie Smith 276
- 15 Challenges to Democracy in an Age of Globalization / Benjamin Barber 295.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0826450326
- 0826450318
- OCLC:
- 44701805
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