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Author: Elisabeth Jean Wood
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2000-10-30
Total Pages: 276
ISBN-13: 9780521788878
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book, first published in 2000, analyzes the role of economically marginalized people in recent transitions to democratic rule.
Author: Caroline A. Hartzell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-06-11
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1108478034
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides empirical evidence that power-sharing measures used to end civil wars can help facilitate a transition to minimalist democracy.
Author: Jean-Paul Faguet
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
Published: 2012-06-04
Total Pages: 373
ISBN-13: 0472118196
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFaguet identifies the factors that determine the outcomes of national decentralization on the local level
Author: James Irvine Cairns
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2012-01-01
Total Pages: 225
ISBN-13: 1442605286
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Democratic Imagination examines different conceptions of democracy, exploring tensions that emerge in key moments and debates in the history of democracy, from Ancient Greece to the French Revolution to contemporary Egypt.
Author: Della Porta, Donatella
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2017-09-27
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1447333411
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn recent years, social movements on the left have increasingly begun to make themselves felt in referendums. This has been seen throughout Europe: in votes regarding independence in Scotland and Catalonia, on water rights in Italy, on debt repayment in Iceland, and on the financial proposals of the troika in Greece. This book presents case studies of those referendums and more to analyze the ways that social movements formed in the wake of the 2008 crash have affected referendums' development and outcomes. Looking at general issues of democracy, as well as the political effects of neoliberalism, this book is ideally suited to help us understand some of the issues around Brexit and will be read by a wide audience interested in social movements, referendums, and democratic innovation.
Author: Adam Przeworski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019-09-26
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1108498809
DOWNLOAD EBOOKExamines the economic, social, cultural, as well as purely political threats to democracy in the light of current knowledge.
Author: David de la Pena
Publisher: Island Press
Published: 2017-12-07
Total Pages: 344
ISBN-13: 1610918479
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHow can we design places that fulfill urgent needs of the community, achieve environmental justice, and inspire long-term stewardship? By bringing community members to the table with designers to collectively create vibrant, important places in cities and neighborhoods. For decades, participatory design practices have helped enliven neighborhoods and promote cultural understanding. Yet, many designers still rely on the same techniques that were developed in the 1950s and 60s. These approaches offer predictability, but hold waning promise for addressing current and future design challenges. Design as Democracy is written to reinvigorate democratic design, providing inspiration, techniques, and case stories for a wide range of contexts. Edited by six leading practitioners and academics in the field of participatory design, with nearly 50 contributors from around the world, it offers fresh insights for creating meaningful dialogue between designers and communities and for transforming places with justice and democracy in mind.
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: Adam Przeworski
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1991-07-26
Total Pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780521423359
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe quest for freedom from hunger and repression has triggered in recent years a dramatic, worldwide reform of political and economic systems. Never have so many people enjoyed, or at least experimented with democratic institutions. However, many strategies for economic development in Eastern Europe and Latin America have failed with the result that entire economic systems on both continents are being transformed. This major book analyzes recent transitions to democracy and market-oriented economic reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America. Drawing in a quite distinctive way on models derived from political philosophy, economics, and game theory, Professor Przeworski also considers specific data on individual countries. Among the questions raised by the book are: What should we expect from these experiments in democracy and market economy? What new economic systems will emerge? Will these transitions result in new democracies or old dictatorships?
Author: Nathaniel Persily
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2020-09-03
Total Pages: 365
ISBN-13: 1108835554
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA state-of-the-art account of what we know and do not know about the effects of digital technology on democracy.
