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Innovations, Reinvented Politics And Representative Democracy

62,26€ + 10% CARD

 This volume focuses on the issue of change in democratic politics in terms of experimental or actual innovations introduced either within political parties or outside the party system, involving citizen participation and mobilization.
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Nationalism, Referendums And Democracy - Voting On Ethnic Issues And Independence

58,29€ + 10% CARD

 This revised and expanded edition analyses the factors conducive to holding independence and secession referendums, to winning these votes and to their status in domestic and international law.
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Legitimacy Of Citizen-Led Deliberative Democracy - The G1000 In Belgium

by Didier Caluwaerts e Min Reuchamps

62,26€ + 10% CARD

 This book assesses both the legitimacy and function of deliberative systems in the real world and how individual sites of deliberation interact within the larger political system, looking particularly through the prism of the citizen-led mini-public G1000 in Belgium, which grew out of a feeling of deep democratic crisis.
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Democracy Assistance Bypassing Governments In Recipient Countries - Supporting The “Next Generation”

by Paulina Pospieszna

62,26€ + 10% CARD

 This book addresses important issues such as, the role of young people in democratization processes, the role of new democracies in sharing their transition experience, and the effectiveness of aid, particularly from Central and Eastern Europe to support young people in Eastern Europe, Western Balkans, and Central Asia.
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Challenges Of Democracy In The 21st Century - Concepts, Methods, Causality And The Quality Of Democracy

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 This book evaluates and challenges recent scholarly literature on the quality of democracy. It provides a critical assessment of the current state of the studies on the subject, identifying the key questions and discussing open issues, alternative approaches, problems and future developments.
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Transatlantic Democracy Assistance - Promoting Different Models Of Democracy

by Jan Hornat

62,26€ + 10% CARD

 This book examines the sources of divergence between the EU and US models of democratic governance. By focussing on the role of the actorsâ€™ "democratic identity" it aims to explain the observation that both actors use divergent strategies and instruments to foster democratic governance in third countries.
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Political Participation, Diffused Governance, And The Transformation Of Democracy - Patterns Of Change

by Yvette Peters

62,26€ + 10% CARD

 This book examines different forms of political participation in democracies, and in what way the delegation of public responsibilitiesâ€"or, the diffusion of politicsâ€"has affected patterns of participation since the 1980s.
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When Democracies Collapse - Assessing Transitions To Non-Democratic Regimes In The Contemporary World

by Luca Tomini

62,26€ + 10% CARD

 This book investigates both the different combination of explanatory factors triggering the transition from democratic rule as well as the role of the actorsâ€™ involved in the process.
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Democratizing Central And Eastern Europe - Successes And Failures Of The European Union

by Luca Tomini

67,56€ + 10% CARD

 At first, it was believed that accession to the EU would have a positive effect on the process of democratization in former communist countries. However, over time it became clear that difficulties with the democratic system endured in a number of these countries. This book reconsiders the results of the process of democratization in Central and Eastern Europe and evaluates the nature and effectiveness of the Europeanization process. It comparatively explores the process of democratic consolidation and accession to the European Union in Poland, Slovakia and Bulgaria. Using these case studies, the book assesses the impact of the EU on the accountability and integrity of governments in this part of Europe.This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of democratization studies, European studies, EU studies, transition studies, area studies, and international relations.
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Causes And Consequences Of Democratization - The Regions Of Russia

by Alexander Libman e Anastassia V. Obydenkova

45,04€ + 10% CARD

 Using an innovative theoretical framework, this book explores both causes and consequences of democratization in the regions of Russia.
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Democracy, Participation And Contestation - Civil Society, Governance And The Future Of Liberal Democracy

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 The establishment of democracy on both sides of the Atlantic has not been a smooth evolution towards an idealized presumed endpoint. Far from it, democratization has been marked by setbacks and victories, a process often referred to as ‘contested democracy’. In view of recent mobilizations such as the Arab Spring and the Occupy movement, in which new technologies have played a key role, there is a need for a renewed analysis of the long-term evolution of US and UK political systems. Using new areas of research, this book argues that the ideals and the practices of Anglo-American democracy can be best understood by studying diverse forms of participation, which go beyond classical expressions of contestation and dissent such as voting. The authors analyze political parties, social movements, communications and social media, governance, cultural diversity, identity politics, public-private actors and social cohesion to illustrate how the structure and context of popular participation play a significant role in whether, and when, citizens´ efforts have any meaningful impact on those who exercise political power. In doing so, the authors take crucial steps towards understanding how a vigorous public sphere and popular sovereignty can be made to work in today’s global environment.This book will be of interest to students and scholars of political science, British and US history, democracy, political participation, governance, social movements and politics.
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Democratic Transitions - Modes And Outcomes

by Gary A Stradiotto e Sujian Guo

74,19€ + 10% CARD

 Democratic transitions have occurred in many countries in various regions across the globe, such as Southern Europe, Latin America, Africa, East and Southeast Asia, Eastern Europe and the Middle East, and these nations have undergone simuntaneously political, economic and social transformations. Yet, the patterns and characteristics of transitions have varied significantly, and different modes of transition have resulted in different outcomes.This book offers cross-national comparisons of democratic transition since the turn of the twentieth century and asks what makes democracies succeed or fail. In doing so it explores the influence the mode of transition has on the longevity or durability of the democracy, by theoretically examining and quantitatively testing this relationship. The authors argue that the mode of transition directly impacts the success and failure of democracy, and suggest that cooperative transitions, where opposition groups work together with incumbent elites to peacefully transition the state, result in democracies that last longer and are associated with higher measures of democratic quality.Based on a cross-national dataset of all democratic transitioning states since 1900, this book will be of great interest to students and scholars of international politics, comparative politics and democracy, and democratization studies.
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Democratizing Public Governance In Developing Nations - With Special Reference To Africa

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 This edited volume brings together critical insights that address the multifaceted problems of governance and democracy in the developing regions with specific reference to Africa. It explores both the externally prescribed and home-grown governance initiatives geared toward democracy and development, and suggests alternative strategies to improve the processes and institutions of governance. The chapters in the book deal with major concerns related to governance, including the strengths and limits of existing policies and practices and the structure and role of state and non-state institutions in promoting democracy and participation. All these issues, in general, have great significance for realizing an authentic and enduring mode of democratic governance in the developing world.
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Democratisation In The 21st Century - Reviving Transitology

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 The 2010’s was a critical period in the continuing, established trend of the spread of democracy worldwide: from the Arab Spring countries of Tunisia, Libya, Egypt and Yemen to the unfolding turmoil of Myanmar and Ukraine, by way of the upheavals in Burkina Faso, Senegal and Ivory Coast, social mobilisation against autocratic, corrupt, or military regimes has precipitated political transitions that are characteristic of "democratisation."This book examines the state of democratisation theory and practice that reopens and revives the democratic transition debate, exploring the factors that lead to the demise of autocracy, the pathways and processes of change, and the choice for an eventual consolidation of democracy. For all its insights and shortcomings, the framework of transitology - a body of literature that has comparatively and through case-study analysis, examined common patterns, sequences, crises and outcomes of transitional periods - has been largely eschewed. The essays, written by international democratisation specialists, tackle the series of questions raised by a body of literature that remains highly useful to understand contemporary political turbulence and transformation, considering numerous crucial issues.This work will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of governance, democratisation, comparative politics, international relations, political science and more broadly, history.
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Democratization And The Media

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 The essays in this volume analyse differing aspects of the complex relationship between the media and democracy in a diverse range of national contexts.
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Democratization In Eu Foreign Policy - New Member States As Drivers Of Democracy Promotion

70,21€ + 10% CARD

 New democracies are uniquely positioned to promote democratic values and have a competitive advantage in the global democracy assistance industry.This book examines the attempts of one group of young democracies, from Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), to channel this pro-democracy agenda into both national and European foreign policy and development support. It looks at how CEE is ‘upstream’ changing the EU on crucial policy issues as part of the common foreign and security policy. Furthermore, it tracks the process whereby imported ideas and norms are recycled for further export ‘downstream’, and how these concepts are received in countries outside of the EU including the post-Soviet space, the Western Balkans, the Middle East and North Africa region and Central Asia.This text will be of key interest to scholars, students and practitioners of democratisation studies, European Union studies, comparative politics, international relations, international development, European politics, as well as area/regional studies.
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Globality, Democracy And Civil Society

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 This book explores the past, present and future of democratic values and practice, focussing on conceptions of democracy that reconcile radical plurality with democratic practices, presenting examples and perspectives framed by â€˜globalityâ€™, rather than an East/West binary.
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Democratization And The Judiciary - The Accountability Function Of Courts In New Democracies

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 This title examines the political role of courts in new democracies in Latin America and Africa, focusing on their ability to hold political power-holders accountable when they act outside their constitutionally defined powers.
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Civil Society In Democratization

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 Featuring a broad range of perspectives on the democratic process, this collection of essays explores the development of civil society and how civil societies manage democratic change around the world.
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New Challenges To Democratization

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 Brings together leading international scholars to assess the claim that democratization around the world is facing a serious challenge and features in-depth studies on US democracy promotion, the Middle East, Russia, China and new democracies.
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Global Democracy: For And Against - Ethical Theory, Institutional Design And Social Struggles

by Raffaele Marchetti

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 This book defends the case for the expansion of the democratic model to the global political sphere by examining the nexus between the phenomenon of international exclusion and the political response of global democracy.
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Constructing Democracy In Southern Europe - A Comparative Analysis Of Italy, Spain And Turkey

by Lauren M. Mclaren

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 Offers an introduction to the politics of Italy, Spain and Turkey, providing a comparative case study analysis of why democratization outcomes vary across the three countries.
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Consolidation Of Democracy - Comparing Europe And Latin America

by Carsten Q. Schneider

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 This innovative book seeks to explain what factors account for the consolidation of young democracies in over thirty countries in Latin America and Europe throughout the last quarter of the twentieth century.
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Internet And Politics - Citizens, Voters And Activists

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 This volume explores the nature of the Internet's impact on civil society, addressing key questions and drawing on exciting new research.:
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