Democracies and the Populist Challenge
Democracies and the Populist Challenge

Author: Y. Meny

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2001-12-06

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 1403920079

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Populism has become a favourite catchword for mass media and politicians faced with the challenge of protest parties or movements. It has often been equated with radical right leaders or parties. This volume offers a different perspective and underlines that populism is an ambiguous but constitutive component of democratic systems torn between their ideology (government of the people, by the people, for the people) and their actual functioning, characterised by the role of the elites and the limits put on the popular will by liberal constitutionalism.

Tradition and Modernity
Tradition and Modernity

Author: Kwame Gyekye

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 359

ISBN-13: 0195112253

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Gyekye offers a philosophical interpretation and critical analysis of the African cultural experience in modern times, and shows how Western philosophical concepts help in addressing a wide range of specifically African problems.

A Companion to African Philosophy
A Companion to African Philosophy

Author: Kwasi Wiredu

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons

Published: 2008-04-15

Total Pages: 608

ISBN-13: 0470997370

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This volume of newly commissioned essays provides comprehensive coverage of African philosophy, ranging across disciplines and throughout the ages. Offers a distinctive historical treatment of African philosophy. Covers all the main branches of philosophy as addressed in the African tradition. Includes accounts of pre-colonial African philosophy and contemporary political thought.

Consensus as Democracy in Africa
Consensus as Democracy in Africa

Author: Bernard Matolino

Publisher: African Books Collective

Published: 2018-12-28

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 192003336X

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Some philosophers on the African continent and beyond are convinced that consensus, as a polity, represents the best chance for Africa to fully democratise. In Consensus as Democracy in Africa, Bernard Matolino challenges the basic assumptions built into consensus as a social and political theory. Central to his challenge to the claimed viability of consensus as a democratic system are three major questions: Is consensus genuinely superior to its majoritarian counterpart? Is consensus itself truly a democratic system? Is consensus sufficiently different from the one-party system? In taking up these issues and others closely associated with them, Matolino shows that consensus as a system of democracy encounters several challenges that make its viability highly doubtful. Matolino then attempts a combination of an understanding of an authentic mode of democracy with African reality to work out what a more desirable polity would be for the continent.

Speech and Harm
Speech and Harm

Author: Ishani Maitra

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2012-05-31

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 0199236283

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Most liberal societies are deeply committed to free speech, but there is evidence that some kinds of speech can be harmful in ways that are detrimental to important liberal values, such as social inequality. This volume draws on a range of approaches in order to explore the problem and determine what ought to be done about allegedly harmful speech.