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Transformations of Democracy : Crisis, Protest and Legitimation
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social movements--Case studies.
- Social movements.
- Protest movements--Case studies.
- Protest movements.
- Civil disobedience--Case studies.
- Civil disobedience.
- Democracy--Case studies.
- Democracy.
- Genre:
- Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (292 p.)
- Distribution:
- New York : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Rowman and Littlefield International, Ltd, [2015]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Is democracy in crisis? On the one hand, it seems to be decaying under the leadership of political elites who make decisions behind closed doors. On the other hand, citizens are taking to the streets to firmly assert their political participation across the globe. Drawing on a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this collection examines the multiple transformations which both the practice and the idea of democracy are undergoing today. It starts by questioning whether there is a crisis of democracy, or if part of this crisis lies in the inadequacy of social and political theory
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Introduction""; ""Part I: Democracy in Crisis?""; ""1 The European Crisis""; ""2 Democracy in Crisis""; ""3 Radical Philosophy Encounters the Uprisings""; ""4 Citizenship, Democracy and the Plurality of Means, Forms and Levels of Participation""; ""Part II: Disobedience, Protest and the Public Sphere""; ""5 Being Agitated�Agitated Being""; ""6 An Ethics of Public Political Deliberation""; ""7 Resisting Resistance""; ""8 Digital Publics, Digital Contestation""; ""Part III: Democracy Revisited: New Normative Foundations for Democracy?""
- ""9 Is There a Human Right to Democracy?""""10 Democracy and Moral Rights""; ""11 Normative Sources of Democratic Deliberation""; ""12 Democratic Autonomy and Democratic Authority""; ""Bibliography""; ""Index""; ""About the Editors and Contributors""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 979-88-8181-755-8
- 1-78348-089-0
- OCLC:
- 910445934
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