Civil Society and Democratic Theory, Baker, Gideon

Автор: della Porta Donatella
Название: How Social Movements Can Save Democracy
ISBN: 1509541276 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781509541270
Издательство: Wiley
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Описание: The birth of democracies owes much to the interventions and mobilizations of ordinary people. Yet many feel as though they have inherited democratic institutions which do not deliver for the people - that a rigid democratic process has been imposed from above, with increasing numbers of people feeling left out or left behind. In this well-researched volume, leading political sociologist Donatella della Porta rehabilitates the role social movements have long played in fostering and deepening democracy, particularly focusing on progressive movements of the Left which have sought to broaden the plurality of voices and knowledge in democratic debate.

Bridging social movement studies and democratic theory, della Porta investigates contemporary innovations in times of crisis, particularly those in the direction of participatory and deliberative practices - 'crowd-sourced constitutions', referendums from below and movement parties - and reflects on the potential and limits of such alternative politics. In a moment in which concerns increase for the potential disruption of a Great Regression led by xenophobic movements and parties, the cases and analyses of resistance in this volume offer important material for students and scholars of political sociology, political science and social movement studies.

Автор: Jessica Ayesha Northey
Название: Civil Society in Algeria: Activism, Identity and the Democratic Process
ISBN: 1788311590 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781788311595
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Are new forms of activism emerging in Algeria? Can civil society effect political reform in the country? The violence between radical Islamists and the military in the 1990s led to huge loss of life and mass exile. The public sphere was rendered a dangerous place for over a decade. Yet in defiance of these conditions, civil society grew, with thousands of associations forming throughout the conflict.

Associations were set up to protect human rights and vulnerable populations, commemorate those assassinated and promote Algerian heritage. There are now over 93,000 associations registered across the country. Although social, economic and political turbulence continues, new networks still emerge and, since the Arab revolts of 2011, organised demonstrations increasingly take place.

Civil Society in Algeria examines these recent developments and scrutinizes the role associations play in promoting political reform and democratization in Algeria. Based on extensive fieldwork undertaken both before and after the Arab Spring, the book shows how associations challenge government policy in the public sphere. Algeria is playing an increasingly important role in the stability and future peaceful relations of the Middle East and North Africa.

This book reveals the new forms of activism that are challenging the ever-powerful state. It is a valuable resource for Algeria specialists and for scholars researching political reform and democratization across the Middle East and North Africa.

Автор: Kemp, David
Название: Democratic nation
ISBN: 0522873464 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780522873467
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Tells the story of the political battle after Federation to achieve unprecedented levels of social and economic equality, while preserving both national independence and individual freedom.

Автор: Kemp, David
Название: Liberal state
ISBN: 0522873448 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780522873443
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: A Liberal State: How Australians Chose Liberalism over Socialism 1926-1966 explores the revival of Australian political liberalism after the Great Depression of the 1930s, and its sweeping domestic political triumph after World War II over utopian socialism and Labor's statism. The fourth title in a landmark five-volume Australian Liberalism series, A Liberal State examines how Australians reasserted their claim to control their own lives, following decades of expanded government control over economic and social life, and intrusive wartime and post-war restrictions. From the 1920s Robert Menzies became the major voice for liberal thought in the nation's political life and David Kemp looks at his role in reconstructing liberal and conservative politics. The book highlights the importance of the factional struggles within the Labor Party arising from its adoption of a Socialist Objective, and the domestic and international advance of utopian socialist ideology during World War II and the Cold War. A Liberal State tells of Jack Lang's advocacy of the socialisation of industry in New South Wales in the 1930s, and of Menzies as war-time prime minster and his key relationship with John Curtin. It assesses Menzies's historic Forgotten People statement of liberal ideas, the formation of the Liberal Party of Australia, and how, after his election victory in 1949, Menzies rebuilt a liberal basis for national policy during sixteen and a half years as prime minister.

Автор: B. He
Название: The Democratic Implications of Civil Society in China
ISBN: 1349255769 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349255764
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This book discusses the roles of civil society in the initiation stage of democratization in China. It argues that there is a semi-civil society in China and that this quasi-civil society that plays dual roles in the initial stage of democratisation in China.

Автор: Martin Alexander P.
Название: Tunisian Civil Society: Political Culture and Democratic Function Since 2011
ISBN: 1032236833 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781032236834
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: Investigating the political transition after the 2011 Tunisian revolution, this book explores whether civil society is fulfilling its democratic functions. Examining the existence of a civil political culture, that is identified through the presence of the six criteria of Freedom, Equality, Pluralism, Tolerance, Trust and Transparency.

Автор: Lauren N. Haumesser
Название: The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke a Party and a Nation, 1856-1861
ISBN: 1469671433 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781469671437
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This fresh examination of antebellum politics comprehensively examines the ways that gender issues and gendered discourse exacerbated fissures within the Democratic Party in the critical years between 1856 and 1861. Whereas the cultural politics of gender had bolstered Democratic unity through the 1850s, the Lecompton crisis and John Brown's raid revealed that white manhood and its association with familial and national protection meant disparate—and ultimately incompatible—things in free and slave society. In fierce debates over the extension of slavery, gendered rhetoric hardened conflicts that ultimately led to the outbreak of the Civil War.

Lauren Haumesser here traces how northern and southern Democrats and their partisan media organs used gender to make powerful arguments about slavery as the sectional crisis grew, from the emergence of the Republican Party to secession. Gendered charges and countercharges turned slavery into an intractable cultural debate, raising the stakes of every dispute and making compromise ever more elusive.

Автор: O. Encarnaci?n
Название: The Myth of Civil Society
ISBN: 134952686X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349526864
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Almost irrespective of the geographic setting, the debate about the future of democracy in post-authoritarian societies is increasingly tied to the strength of civil society. A strong civil society is thought to be crucial to the emergence of successful democracies while a weak civil society is deemed the cause of flawed or frozen democracies.

Автор: C. Olivo
Название: Creating a Democratic Civil Society in Eastern Germany
ISBN: 1349386278 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349386277
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Описание: This book examines normative theories of civil society and deliberative democracy by using a case study of the East German `citizen movements` that led the democratic opposition against the communist regime.

Автор: Sabine Mannitz
Название: Democratic Civil-Military Relations: Soldiering in 21st Century Europe
ISBN: 0415516463 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780415516464
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: This book examines the ways in which European democracies, including former communist states, are dealing with the new demands placed on their security policies since the cold war by transforming their military structures, and the effects this is having on the conceptualisation of soldiering.

Автор: Leuprecht Christian, McNorton Hayley
Название: Intelligence as Democratic Statecraft: Accountability and Governance of Civil-Intelligence Relations Across the Five Eyes Security Community - The Uni
ISBN: 0192893947 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780192893949
Издательство: Oxford Academ
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Описание: Leuprecht and McNorton offer the only systematic comparison of the world`s most powerful intelligence alliance, colloquially known as the Five Eyes: the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The book examines developments and mechanisms in holding each country`s intelligence community accountable.

Автор: Jessica Ayesha Northey
Название: Civil Society in Algeria: Activism, Identity and the Democratic Process
ISBN: 0755647742 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780755647743
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Описание: Are new forms of activism emerging in Algeria? Can civil society effect political reform in the country? The violence between radical Islamists and the military in the 1990s led to huge loss of life and mass exile. The public sphere was rendered a dangerous place for over a decade. Yet in defiance of these conditions, civil society grew, with thousands of associations forming throughout the conflict. Associations were set up to protect human rights and vulnerable populations, commemorate those assassinated and promote Algerian heritage. There are now over 93,000 associations registered across the country. Although social, economic and political turbulence continues, new networks still emerge and, since the Arab revolts of 2011, organised demonstrations increasingly take place. Civil Society in Algeria examines these recent developments and scrutinizes the role associations play in promoting political reform and democratization in Algeria. Based on extensive fieldwork undertaken both before and after the Arab Spring, the book shows how associations challenge government policy in the public sphere. Algeria is playing an increasingly important role in the stability and future peaceful relations of the Middle East and North Africa. This book reveals the new forms of activism that are challenging the ever-powerful state. It is a valuable resource for Algeria specialists and for scholars researching political reform and democratization across the Middle East and North Africa.