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Author: Miguel Poiares Maduro
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-11-12
Total Pages: 219
ISBN-13: 1108845363
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the most important democratic challenges of today, using the Covid-19 pandemic as a case study.
Author: Rumki Basu
Publisher: Routledge Series on the Humanities and the Social Sciences in a Post-COVID-19 World
Published: 2023-09-25
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780367695880
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume studies the likely impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on future policy making in India and other democracies. It critically exmines the available theoretical frameworks, models and approaches used in the policy making process and studies their contemporary relevance.
Author: Gerry Stoker
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Published: 2022-04-21
Total Pages: 257
ISBN-13: 1350328278
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemocracy is in crisis. Is there still time to save it? Democracies face external threat from aggressive authoritarian states. Internally, citizens have grown increasingly distrustful of politicians and more cynical about national and global governance institutions. The time is ripe for democracy to renew itself. This text offers a state-of-the art overview of democratic innovations today, moving beyond cries of the 'death' or 'end' of democracy to instead offer a range of practical solutions for how to save it and restore faith in democratic practice. 'Old' democratic power, represented by existing structures, is being challenged. 'New' power involves collaboration and rapid feedback loops, as well as increased citizen participation. The future of democracy, the authors demonstrate, will be about findings ways of melding 'old' and 'new' power practices. Offering a broad and accessible survey of what different forms of democracy and democratic innovations look like today, and how they can develop in future, Saving Democracy shows us the potential for transformation across the entire democratic process. Avoiding a reductive focus on simply getting citizens more involved in decision-making, this book uniquely argues for the importance of refining and monitoring how democratic decisions are made and followed through.
Author: COUNCIL OF EUROPE. COUNCIL OF EUROPE.
Publisher:
Published: 2021-02-21
Total Pages: 303
ISBN-13: 9789287186973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPublic health was the immediate concern when the Covid-19 pandemic struck in Asia, then in Europe and other parts of the world. The response of our education systems is no less vital. Higher education has played a major role in responding to the pandemic and it must help shape a better, more equitable and just post-Covid-19 world. This book explores the various responses of higher education to the pandemic across Europe and North America, with contributions also from Africa, Asia and South America. The contributors write from the perspective of higher education leaders with institutional responsibility, as well as from that of public authorities or specialists in specific aspects of higher education policy and practice. Some contributions analyze how specific higher education institutions reacted, while others reflect on the impact of Covid-19 on key issues such as internationalization, finance, academic freedom and institutional autonomy, inclusion and equality and public responsibility.The book describes the various ways in which higher education is facing the Covid-19pandemic. It is designed to help universities, specifically their staff and students as well as their partners, contribute to a more sustainable and democratic future.
Author: Graham Smith
Publisher: University of Westminster Press
Published: 2021-07-12
Total Pages: 200
ISBN-13: 1914386183
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCovid-19 has highlighted limitations in our democratic politics – but also lessons for how to deepen our democracy and more effectively respond to future crises. In the face of an emergency, the working assumption all too often is that only a centralised, top-down response is possible. This book exposes the weakness of this assumption, making the case for deeper participation and deliberation in times of crises. During the pandemic, mutual aid and self-help groups have realised unmet needs. And forward-thinking organisations have shown that listening to and working with diverse social groups leads to more inclusive outcomes. Participation and deliberation are not just possible in an emergency. They are valuable, perhaps even indispensable. This book draws together a diverse range of voices of activists, practitioners, policy makers, researchers and writers. Together they make visible the critical role played by participation and deliberation during the pandemic and make the case for enhanced engagement during and beyond emergency contexts. Another, more democratic world can be realised in the face of a crisis. The contributors to this book offer us meaningful insights into what this could look like.
Author: Arend Lijphart
Publisher: Yale University Press
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 457
ISBN-13: 0300189125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamining 36 democracies from 1945 to 2010, this text arrives at conclusions about what type of democracy works best. It demonstrates that consensual systems stimulate economic growth, control inflation and unemployment, and limit budget deficits.
Author: Alice C. Hill
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 0197549705
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The Fight for Climate after COVID-19 draws on the troubled and uneven COVID-19 experience to illustrate the critical need to ramp up resilience rapidly and effectively on a global scale. After years of working alongside public health and resilience experts crafting policy to build both pandemic and climate change preparedness, Alice C. Hill exposes parallels between the underutilized measures that governments should have taken to contain the spread of COVID-19 -- such as early action, cross-border planning, and bolstering emergency preparation -- and the steps leaders can take now to mitigate the impacts of climate change. Through practical analyses of current policy and thoughtful guidance for successful climate adaptation, The Fight for Climate after COVID-19 reveals that, just as our society has transformed itself to meet the challenge of coronavirus, so too will we need to adapt our thinking and our policies to combat the ever-increasing threat of climate change." --
Author: Danielle Allen
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2022-02-16
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 0226815625
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDemocracy in crisis -- Pandemic resilience -- Federalism is an asset -- A transformed peace: an agenda for healing our social contract.
Author: Francis Fukuyama
Publisher: Profile Books
Published: 2011-05-12
Total Pages: 529
ISBN-13: 1847652816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNations are not trapped by their pasts, but events that happened hundreds or even thousands of years ago continue to exert huge influence on present-day politics. If we are to understand the politics that we now take for granted, we need to understand its origins. Francis Fukuyama examines the paths that different societies have taken to reach their current forms of political order. This book starts with the very beginning of mankind and comes right up to the eve of the French and American revolutions, spanning such diverse disciplines as economics, anthropology and geography. The Origins of Political Order is a magisterial study on the emergence of mankind as a political animal, by one of the most eminent political thinkers writing today.
Author: James W. McGuire
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-07-09
Total Pages: 82
ISBN-13: 1108788645
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Element explores the association between political democracy and population health. It reviews the rise of scholarly interest in the association, evaluates alternative indicators of democracy and population health, assesses how particular dimensions of democracy have affected population health, and explores how population health has affected democracy. It finds that democracy - optimally defined as free, fair, inclusive, and decisive elections plus basic rights - is usually, but not invariably, beneficial for population health, even after good governance is taken into account. It argues that research on democracy and population health should take measurement challenges seriously; recognize that many aspects of democracy, not just competitive elections, can affect population health; acknowledge that democracy's impact on population health will be large or small, and beneficial or harmful, depending on circumstances; and identify the relevant circumstances by combining the quantitative analysis of many cases with the qualitative study of a few cases.
