Democracy And The Nation State

Author : Tomas Hammar
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 226 pages
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Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351945370

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First Published in 2016. In this book starts with the discussion located at the crossroads between two basic political principles. The first one is the democratic idea of representative government, based on elections by general suffrage. The second is the nation-state principle which says that the world is divided into sovereign states and that only those who are citizens can claim a right to take part in political life, in other words that foreign citizens are not allowed to participate in political elections. Democracy is honoured almost everywhere, at least as a principle, but the modern system of states presupposes that as a general rule only those who are citizens are entitled to vote, to stand for election, to join parties, and to participate in political debate and give voice to their political demands and interests. Both these basic political principles are young, and their pre sent confrontation is therefore also new to us.

Author : Joe Parker
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315303789

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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Part I Rethinking Democratic Practice -- Introduction: Democracy and Equality -- 1 Democracy Otherwise: Rethinking Democratic Practice -- Part II Specific Sites for Practicing Equality -- 2 Heritage Democracies: Indigenous Equality in Practice -- 3 Democracies from Below: Subaltern Equality in Practice -- 4 Popular Democracies: Popular Equality in Practice -- 5 Global Democracies: Global Equality in Practice -- Part III Concrete Outcomes of Equality in Practice -- 6 Everyday Democracies: Daily Equality in Practice -- Conclusion: Equality in Practice -- Appendix 1: Countermeasures against Inequality -- Appendix 2: Resources for Equality in Practice -- Index

Author : Tomas Hammar
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:718273641

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Author : S. Schneider,A. Hurrelmann,Zuzana Krell-Laluhová,F. meier,Achim Wiesner,Frank Nullmeier
Publisher : Springer
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-04-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230275331

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Democracy’s Deep Roots by S. Schneider,A. Hurrelmann,Zuzana Krell-Laluhová,F. meier,Achim Wiesner,Frank Nullmeier Pdf

Does the democratic nation state remain a legitimate regime form in the current age of globalization? This book uses a novel, analytical approach to probe this topical question, drawing on a comparative study of legitimation discourses in the media of four Western democracies (Switzerland, Germany, Britain, and the United States.)

Author : Ralf Dahrendorf
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 1871952204

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Democracy Beyond the Nation State by Ralf Dahrendorf Pdf

Author : Ronald M. Glassman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1736 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017-06-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319516950

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The Origins of Democracy in Tribes, City-States and Nation-States by Ronald M. Glassman Pdf

This four-part work describes and analyses democracy and despotism in tribes, city-states, and nation states. The theoretical framework used in this work combines Weberian, Aristotelian, evolutionary anthropological, and feminist theories in a comparative-historical context. The dual nature of humans, as both an animal and a consciously aware being, underpins the analysis presented. Part One covers tribes. It uses anthropological literature to describe the “campfire democracy” of the African Bushmen, the Pygmies, and other band societies. Its main focus is on the tribal democracy of the Cheyenne, Iroquois, Huron, and other tribes, and it pays special attention to the role of women in tribal democracies. Part Two describes the city-states of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Canaan-Phoenicia, and includes a section on the theocracy of the Jews. This part focuses on the transition from tribal democracy to city-state democracy in the ancient Middle East – from the Sumerian city-states to the Phoenician. Part Three focuses on the origins of democracy and covers Greece—Mycenaean, Dorian, and the Golden Age. It presents a detailed description of the tribal democracy of Archaic Greece – emphasizing the causal effect of the hoplite-phalanx military formation in egalitarianizing Greek tribal society. Next, it analyses the transition from tribal to city-state democracy—with the new commercial classes engendering the oligarchic and democratic conflicts described by Plato and Aristotle. Part Four describes the Norse tribes as they contacted Rome, the rise of kingships, the renaissance of the city-states, and the parliamentary monarchies of the emerging nation-states. It provides details of the rise of commercial city states in Renaissance Italy, Hanseatic Germany and the Netherlands.

Author : Michael Keating
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2001-11-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191528958

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Plurinational Democracy by Michael Keating Pdf

Transnational integration and other challenges to the nation-state have deprived it of its mystique and broken the automatic link between state and nation. This has encouraged the revival of stateless nationalisms, but also provided new means for their accommodation. The author argues that these changes call for a radical rethinking of the nature of sovereignty and of the state itself to meet the twin challenges of recognition of nationality and of democracy. Drawing on the experience of four plurinational states - United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium, and Canada - and of the European Union, he analyses the challenges of plurinationalism and its recognition. Keating argues that we are not moving to a world without states, but to a complex political order with multiple sites of sovereign authority, and asymmetrical constitutional r s6ngements. This political order is new but at the same time old, as traditions of diffused authority and shared sovereignty, from before the rise of the nation-state, are rediscovered and rehabilitated. Democracy can no longer be confined to the framework of the nation-state but must extend to the new political spaces which are emerging above and below the state. Political movements and public opinion in the stateless nations are increasingly embracing these ideas and are the harbingers of a post-sovereign political order.

Author : Michel Seymour
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0773526862

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The Fate of the Nation-state by Michel Seymour Pdf

Are Nation-states obsolete? Are multination states viable? Can we really create powerful supranational institutions? These are the questions that celebrated authors and specialists attempt to answer in this important collection of articles. The work contains theoretical essays and case studies by philosophers, sociologists, political scientists and governmental analysts that provide state of the art analyses of the situation of the nation-state as it is developing all over the world in the new millennium. There are different concepts of nationhood and different forms of national consciousness: ethnic, civic, cultural, socio-political and diasporic. There are also different ways for nations to be present on any given territory; as immigrant groups, as extensions of neighbouring national majorities, as minority nations or as majority nations. There are also different policies adopted toward different groups: bilingualism, multiculturalism, interculturalism, collective rights, etc. Finally, there are different sorts of political arrangements: nation-state, multination state, confederation of sovereign states, multinational federation, federation of nation-states, supranational institutions, etc. The enormous complexity of these issues explain why nations, nationalism and nation-states have been so difficult to understand. The theoretical essays contained in this volume are sensitive to all those issues. The authors examine the foundations of nationalist thinking and the justifications behind the nation-state model. They also reflect upon the nation building policies, politics of recognition and issues related to globalization. The case studies investigate countries or regions such as Ireland, Scotland, Catalonia, the Balkans, Russia, USA, Finland, India, Indonesia, the European Union and Canada.

Author : Roland Axtmann
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 0719043050

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Liberal Democracy Into the Twenty-first Century by Roland Axtmann Pdf

This book offers a contemporary critique of liberal democracy, understood as a set of institutions and as a set of ideas. Roland Axtmann asks what democracy means today, as it faces the challenges of feminism, multiculturalism, globalization and European integration. Axtmann analyses in turn each of liberal democracy's component parts. Firstly he discusses the notions of sovereignty, constitutionalism and representation and analyses the liberal concept of citizenship. Secondly he surveys the conceptual history of civil society and presents republicanism and deliberative politics (after Habermas) as alternative conceptualizations of democracy. Thirdly he shows how feminism and multi-culturalism challenge liberal democracy with their demands for the granting of group rights. Finally he shows how global interdependence and supranational integration demand a reconsideration of democratic sovereignty. The idea of democratic rule by the sovereign people in the sovereign nation-state is being transformed to reflect new connections between citizens, governments, and supranational institutions.

Author : Alfred Stepan,Juan J. Linz,Yogendra Yadav
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801899423

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Crafting State-Nations by Alfred Stepan,Juan J. Linz,Yogendra Yadav Pdf

Political wisdom holds that the political boundaries of a state necessarily coincide with a nation's perceived cultural boundaries. Today, the sociocultural diversity of many polities renders this understanding obsolete. This volume provides the framework for the state-nation, a new paradigm that addresses the need within democratic nations to accommodate distinct ethnic and cultural groups within a country while maintaining national political coherence. First introduced briefly in 1996 by Alfred Stepan and Juan J. Linz, the state-nation is a country with significant multicultural—even multinational—components that engenders strong identification and loyalty from its citizens. Here, Indian political scholar Yogendra Yadav joins Stepan and Linz to outline and develop the concept further. The core of the book documents how state-nation policies have helped craft multiple but complementary identities in India in contrast to nation-state policies in Sri Lanka, which contributed to polarized and warring identities. The authors support their argument with the results of some of the largest and most original surveys ever designed and employed for comparative political research. They include a chapter discussing why the U.S. constitutional model, often seen as the preferred template for all the world’s federations, would have been particularly inappropriate for crafting democracy in politically robust multinational countries such as India or Spain. To expand the repertoire of how even unitary states can respond to territorially concentrated minorities with some secessionist desires, the authors develop a revised theory of federacy and show how such a formula helped craft the recent peace agreement in Aceh, Indonesia. Empirically thorough and conceptually clear, Crafting State-Nations will have a substantial impact on the study of comparative political institutions and the conception and understanding of nationalism and democracy.

Author : Robert Corfe
Publisher : Arena books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781909421141

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The Democratic Imperative by Robert Corfe Pdf

Democracy understood as people power, which is the only proper definition of the word, is put forward in this book as the panacea for resolving the most pressing issues of our time. But democracy as a practicable system hinges on many conditions which are seldom appreciated by our world leaders, international institutions, or relevant bodies of learning. The evolution of democracy as a system of government and way of life, and the problems to which the former gives rise is broadly discussed by the author. Of most significance are those situations, in both East and West, when democracy is ideologically used as a cover for ulterior purposes. It is powerfully argued that the left/right divide which for 200 years has served as the rationale for advancing social progress in sustaining democracy is now destroying it, as partly witnessed through the collapse of both party memberships and voting figures in most advanced industrial economies. This has occurred through the transformation of society and the world of work over the past 60 years, and has left our parliamentary representatives trapped in a time-warp of the past in their inability to meet the actuality of contemporary issues. It is clearly shown, through a variety of reasons, that democracy as an all-inclusive system of government is only workable within the nation state. This partly explains the crises of the EU, and the shortcomings of the UN's Security Council. The greatest threat to democracy, since it limits the power of the nation state to carry through electoral promises, is international finance and transnational corporations, which are unaccountable to any responsible authority and liable to bring economic catastrophe in their wake. This is a book which seeks to empower our national politicians, irrespective of party, so they may more effectively represent the interests of their electorates. A way must be found for our politicians to resolve their predicament, even though it may entail a shift in their attitudes and ideals.

Author : Fawzy Mansour
Publisher : United Nations University Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Arab countries
ISBN : 0862328845

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The Arab World by Fawzy Mansour Pdf

A particularly trenchant political economy of the Arab world, set within the dual contexts of the historical development of the Middle East and the evolving world economic system. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Pierre Manent
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780691125671

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A World Beyond Politics? by Pierre Manent Pdf

We live in the grip of a great illusion about politics, Pierre Manent argues in A World beyond Politics? It's the illusion that we would be better off without politics--at least national politics, and perhaps all politics. It is a fantasy that if democratic values could somehow detach themselves from their traditional national context, we could enter a world of pure democracy, where human society would be ruled solely according to law and morality. Borders would dissolve in unconditional internationalism and nations would collapse into supranational organizations such as the European Union. Free of the limits and sins of politics, we could finally attain the true life. In contrast to these beliefs, which are especially widespread in Europe, Manent reasons that the political order is the key to the human order. Human life, in order to have force and meaning, must be concentrated in a particular political community, in which decisions are made through collective, creative debate. The best such community for democratic life, he argues, is still the nation-state. Following the example of nineteenth-century political philosophers such as Alexis de Tocqueville and John Stuart Mill, Manent first describes a few essential features of democracy and the nation-state, and then shows how these characteristics illuminate many aspects of our present political circumstances. He ends by arguing that both democracy and the nation-state are under threat--from apolitical tendencies such as the cult of international commerce and attempts to replace democratic decisions with judicial procedures.

Author : Kjell Goldmann
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2001-08-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781412932172

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Transforming the European Nation-State by Kjell Goldmann Pdf

This book introduces and maps the complex interaction between internationalization, nation-state and democracy to provide a new basis for understanding political change in contemporary Europe. The book: introduces the concept of internationalization, considers how it relates to its near-synonoym globalization, and explains the dynamics of the internationalization process; assesses the impact and implications for nation-states, national identities and political cultures; and addresses the problem of making internationalized democracy work at national and European levels. Throughout the text theoretical ideas and concepts are accessibly introduced and illustrated with a wide range of empirical examples from across Europe.

Author : Alfred Stepan,Juan J. Linz,Yogendra Yadav
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 331 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801897238

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Crafting State-Nations by Alfred Stepan,Juan J. Linz,Yogendra Yadav Pdf

Empirically thorough and conceptually clear, Crafting State-Nations will have a substantial impact on the study of comparative political institutions and the conception and understanding of nationalism and democracy.