Associative Democracy And The Crises Of Representative Democracies

Author : Veit Bader,Marcel Maussen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-08-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000932065

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Associative Democracy and the Crises of Representative Democracies by Veit Bader,Marcel Maussen Pdf

The familiar problems of democratic capitalism have given way to a deep crisis challenging the basic forms of governance introduced around the late 18th century and then gradually expanded and developed until the late 20th century. Associative Democracy and the Crises of Representative Democracies argues that we are in urgent need of normative guidelines and a strong understanding of a broad range of institutional options and innovative experiments in associative democracy in order to address the structural problems that existing institutional arrangements are confronted with whilst maintaining and strengthening democratic forms of government and governance. The argument is developed against the background of a thorough survey of empirical social scientific studies on the crises of capitalisms and representative democracies. This book focuses primarily on democratic alternatives, though it also works out principles and institutions of democratic socialism as alternatives to capitalism. After introducing the theoretical approach, the book illustrates the ways this framework of analysis can be of use, with particular focus on three issues that are highly topical when it comes to the challenges our institutions are confronted with: democratic governance in relation to ecological crises and uncertainty; the threats to democracy raised by the crisis of political parties and representative party-democracy, and the challenges related to privatization and marketization of public services, particularly in healthcare. The book concludes by exploring opportunities to democratize the economy, locating viable alternatives to capitalism in the tradition of democratic socialism. This urgent and thought-provoking book will be of great interest to academics and students in various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including political science, sociology, and economics.

Author : Paul Q. Hirst,Veit-Michael Bader
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
ISBN : 9780714651712

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Associative Democracy by Paul Q. Hirst,Veit-Michael Bader Pdf

This book aims to unlock the current crisis in democratic accountability by supplementing representative democracy with democratic governance in civil society.

Author : Daniel Innerarity
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-02-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350080775

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Politics in the Times of Indignation by Daniel Innerarity Pdf

Politics in the Times of Indignation provides a critical look at Western liberal democracies in crisis, to provide us with the theoretical tools to make sense of the political disorientation of our times. Indispensable for understanding the present state of democratic societies, this book is a lens through which we can study numerous contemporary developments. He examines the popular indignation that has accompanied the crisis of governmental legitimacy, which is aggravated by the economic crisis in various countries and demonstrated by groups such as the Occupy Wall Street Movement in the US, Podemos in Spain, or La France Insoumise in France. At the same time, Innerarity endeavors to offer a universal, rather than a merely circumstantial, interpretation of the transformations that are still ongoing in our political systems, as well as of those that need to be put in place in order to satisfy the expectations and rights of democratic citizenship. Politics in the Times of Indignation represents a guiding thread through political developments, as well as a conceptual tool-box for understanding the meaning of the current crisis of representation, the fate of political parties, the relation between ethics and politics, and how politics can become an intelligent enterprise.

Author : Paul Q. Hirst
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Associations, institutions, etc
ISBN : UOM:49015001471821

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Associative Democracy by Paul Q. Hirst Pdf

In the economic sphere, it advocates regional economic regulation through public-private partnerships, the promotion of self-governing industrial districts, and the democratization of the company.

Author : Agnes Cornell,Jørgen Møller,Svend-Erik Skaaning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-15
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9780198858249

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Democratic Stability in an Age of Crisis by Agnes Cornell,Jørgen Møller,Svend-Erik Skaaning Pdf

The interwar period has left a deep impression on later generations. This was an age of crises where representative democracy, itself a relatively recent political invention, seemed unable to cope with the challenges that confronted it. Against the backdrop of the economic crisis that began in2008 and the rise of populist parties, a new body of scholarship - frequently invoked by the media - has used interwar political developments to warn that even long-established Western democracies are fragile. Democratic Stability in an Age of Crisis challenges this "interwar analogy" based on thefact that a relatively large number of interwar democracies were able to survive the recurrent crises of the 1920s and 1930s.The main aim of this book is to understand the striking resilience of these democracies, and how they differed from the many democracies that broke down in the same period. The authors advance an explanation that emphasizes the importance of democratic legacies and the strength of the associationallandscape (i.e., organized civil society and institutionalized political parties). Moreover, they underline that these factors were themselves associated with a set of deeper structural conditions, which on the eve of the interwar period had brought about different political pathways. The authors'empirical strategy consists of a combination of comparative analyses of all interwar democratic spells and illustrative case studies. The book's main takeaway point is that the interwar period shows how resilient democracy is once it has had time to consolidate. On this basis, recent warnings aboutthe fragility of contemporary democracies in Western Europe and North America seem exaggerated - or, at least, that they cannot be sustained by interwar evidence.Comparative Politics is a series for researchers, teachers, and students of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterized by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published inassociation with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.ecprnet.eu http://www.ecprnet.euThe series is edited by Susan Scarrow, Chair of the Department of Political Science, University of Houston, and Jonathan Slapin, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Zurich.

Author : Thomas Poguntke,Sigrid Rossteutscher,Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck,Sonja Zmerli
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2015-05-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317611578

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Citizenship and Democracy in an Era of Crisis by Thomas Poguntke,Sigrid Rossteutscher,Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck,Sonja Zmerli Pdf

Democracies are transforming worldwide, but at the same time political inequality is increasing. This development threatens to leave growing portions of mass publics effectively ‘outside’ the political process. This volume brings together leading authorities in the field of democratic citizenship and participation to address pertinent questions concerning the quality of the democratic political process at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Analysing causes and consequences of recent developments in democratic governance and citizenship, it contributes new and original research to the ongoing debate on the crisis of representative democracy. The contributors deal with a broad range of issues including aspects of democratic citizenship and citizens' perceptions of system performance, political inequality and the democratic impact of participatory innovations. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students in democratization studies, democratic citizenship, comparative politics, political sociology and political participation.

Author : Adam Przeworski
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Area studies
ISBN : 1108712754

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Crises of Democracy by Adam Przeworski Pdf

Is democracy in crisis? The current threats to democracy are not just political: they are deeply embedded in the democracies of today, in current economic, social, and cultural conditions. In Crises of Democracy, Adam Przeworski presents a panorama of the political situation throughout the world of established democracies, places it in the context of past misadventures of democratic regimes, and speculates on the prospects. Our present state of knowledge does not support facile conclusions. 'We should not believe the flood of writings that have all the answers'. Avoiding technical aspects, this book is addressed not only to professional social scientists, but to everyone concerned about the prospects of democracy.--

Author : Thomas Poguntke,Sigrid Rossteutscher,Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck,Sonja Zmerli
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Citizenship
ISBN : 1317611551

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Citizenship and Democracy in an Era of Crisis by Thomas Poguntke,Sigrid Rossteutscher,Rüdiger Schmitt-Beck,Sonja Zmerli Pdf

Author : Veit Bader,Paul Hirst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781136338755

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Associative Democracy by Veit Bader,Paul Hirst Pdf

This book aims to unlock the current crisis in democratic accountability by supplementing representative democracy with democratic governance in civil society.

Author : Jacques Bidet
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000962314

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A Political Ecology of Common People by Jacques Bidet Pdf

This book advances a counter-intuitive thesis: modern attacks on the global ecological balance are exclusively the result of processes of social domination, whether they are based on class, gender or nation. If this is the case, then it follows that ecological struggle and social struggle are one and the same thing. The approach is inspired by Marx’s theory, as revisited through Bourdieu and Foucault, Rawls and Habermas, and Ostrom and Wallerstein. Based on a new concept, that of “metastructure” which defines the relationship between the structural and the symbolic, it confronts contemporary debates on class, gender andcoloniality, as well as on the state, the nation and the World-System. Global social-ecological destruction is thus analysed on three registers: that of capital, which produces for profit; that of (supposed) competent authority, which produces to produce; and that of the nation, which produces to conquer. Consumerism follows from productivism, not the other way around. The question of need takes precedence over that of desire. This metastructural configuration poses the imperative constantly renewed to counter the blind logic of capital with a rational logic of organisation, and, at the same time, to counter the logic of the organisers through a democratic discursive logic. This latter is the recourse of common people. The Global South is on the front line of this struggle; and women’s struggle bears its own decisive ecological impulse.

Author : Dieter Klein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2023-11-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000990416

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Within and Beyond Capitalism by Dieter Klein Pdf

This book argues for a twofold transformation to mitigate environmental catastrophe, avert war and overcome poverty and authoritarianism: a struggle for democratic, peace-oriented, social and ecological changes within the framework of a post-neoliberal, but still bourgeois-capitalist society, and a drive towards entry-level projects aimed at a great transformation beyond capitalism. Calling for the embrace of core values and institutions aligned with solidarity as opposed to capitalism, it advances four guiding ideas for the pursuit of such a path: redistribution of life chances and power, socio-ecological restructuring, redesign of democratic institutions, and reversal from confrontation to peace through international cooperation and solidarity. A presentation of the fundamental elements of a left strategy for socioecological transformation, this volume will appeal to scholars of social, political and economic theory with interests in post-capitalist futures.

Author : Frank Fischer
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2017-06-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780192525741

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Climate Crisis and the Democratic Prospect by Frank Fischer Pdf

Can contemporary democratic governments tackle climate crisis? Some argue that democracy has to be a central part of a strategy to deal with climate change. Others argue that experience shows it not to be up to the challenge in the time frame available-that it will require a stronger hand, even a form of eco-authoritarianism. A question that does not lend itself to an easy assessment, this volume seeks to out and assess the competing answers. While the book supports the case for environmental democracy, it argues that establishing and sustaining democratic practices will be difficult during the global climate turmoil ahead, especially in the face of state of emergencies. This inquiry undertakes a search for an appropriate political-ecological strategy for preserving a measure of democratic governance during hard times. Without ignoring the global dimensions of the crisis, the analysis finds an alternative path in the theory and practices participatory environmental governance embodied in a growing relocalization movement, and global eco-localism generally. Although such movements largely operate under the radar of the social sciences, the media and the political realm generally, these vibrant socio-ecological movements not only speak to the crisis ahead, but are already well established and thriving on the ground, including ecovillages, eco-communes, eco-neighborhoods, and local transition initiatives. With the help of these ideas and projects, the task is to influence the discourse of environmental political theory in ways that can be of assistance to those who will face climate crisis in its full magnitude.

Author : Lars Trägårdh,Nina Witoszek,Bron Taylor
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780857457578

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Civil Society in the Age of Monitory Democracy by Lars Trägårdh,Nina Witoszek,Bron Taylor Pdf

Since the emergence of the dissident "parallel polis" in Eastern Europe, civil society has become a "new superpower," influencing democratic transformations, human rights, and international co-operation; co-designing economic trends, security and defense; reshaping the information society; and generating new ideas on the environment, health, and the "good life." This volume seeks to compare and reassess the role of civil society in the rich West, the poorer South, and the quickly expanding East in the context of the twenty-first century's challenges. It presents a novel perspective on civic movements testing John Keane's notion of "monitory democracy": an emerging order of public scrutiny and monitoring of power.

Author : Mr Andrew Mathers,Mr Graham Taylor,Professor Martin Upchurch
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-11-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781409488033

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The Crisis of Social Democratic Trade Unionism in Western Europe by Mr Andrew Mathers,Mr Graham Taylor,Professor Martin Upchurch Pdf

There is a developing crisis of social democratic trade unionism in Western Europe; this volume outlines the crisis and examines the emerging alternatives. The authors define 'social democratic trade unionism' and its associated party-union nexus and explain how this traditional model has been threatened by social democracy's accommodation to neo-liberal restructuring and public service reform. Examining the experience of Sweden, Germany, Britain and France, the volume explores the historical rise and fall of social democratic trade unionism in each of these countries and probes the policy and practice of the European Trade Union Confederation. The authors critically examine the possibilities for a revival of social democratic unionism in terms of strategic policy and identity, offering suggestions for an alternative, radicalized political unionism. The research value of the book is highlighted by its focus on contemporary developments and its authors' intimate knowledge of the chosen countries.

Author : Donatella della Porta
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781509541287

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How Social Movements Can Save Democracy by Donatella della Porta Pdf

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.