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Author : Peride K. Blind
Publisher : Springer
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2014-05-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137294784
Policy-Driven Democratization offers a comprehensive conceptual analysis of each one of these fuzzy terms separately to then sew them together in one complete and coherent package of democratization.
Author : Helen Ingram,Steven Rathgeb Smith
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0815717725
A fundamental rethinking is under way about the roles of government, citizens, and community organizations in public policy. Can government be reconstructed to make public policies more responsive to citizens and thus more effective? This challenge is apparent in the activist policy agenda of the Clinton administration, which supports national service programs, government-voluntary collaborations, and community-based development projects. Public Policy for Democracy is an important and timely contribution to the current discussion of how to get people more involved in their own governance. In this book, contributors urge policymakers and policy analysts to promote a more vigorous and inclusive democracy by incorporating concerns about citizenship in their craft, rather than strictly emphasizing efficiency and effectiveness. The authors provide insight into how the social construction of politics affects the recipients of the policies and the public in general. They call attention to how policies reinforce negative stereotypes of some groups, such as welfare recipients, and often lead to political alienation and withdrawal. In addition, they discuss how polices using "clinical reason"—a term borrowed from medicine and used as a way to classify people—are increasingly applied to nonmedical situations, such as domestic violence, to restrict individual power and legitimacy. The authors argue that much needs to be done by the government itself to improve policy design and empower all citizens to participate in the democratic process. They identify concrete strategies for policymakers to enhance the role of citizens without sacrificing program effectiveness.
Author : Leslie E. Anderson
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780472053230
The case of Argentina demonstrates that formal government institutions can facilitate democratization
Author : Fathali M. Moghaddam
Publisher : American Psychological Association (APA)
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Law
ISBN : 1433820870
Fathali M. Moghaddam explores how psychological factors influence the presence, potential development, or absence of democracy. Recommendations are given for promoting the psychological processes that foster democracy. Where democracy thrives, it seems far and away the best system of governance. Yet, relatively few countries have managed to transition successfully to democracy, and none of them have attained what Fathali M. Moghaddam calls "actualized democracy," the ideal in which all citizens share full, informed, equal participation in decision making. The obstacles to democratization are daunting, yet there is hope. What is it about human nature that seems to work for or against democracy? The Psychology of Democracy explores political development through the lens of psychological science. He examines the psychological factors influencing whether and how democracy develops within a society, identifies several conditions necessary for democracy (such as freedom of speech, minority rights, and universal suffrage), and explains how psychological factors influence these conditions. He also recommends steps to promote in citizens the psychological characteristics that foster democracy. Written in a style that is both accessible and intellectually engaging, the book skillfully integrates research and an array of illustrative examples from psychology, political science and international relations, history, and literature.
Author : Amin Saikal,Albrecht Schnabel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822033119561
Part I. Democratic peace, conflict prevention, and the United Nations. Part II. Secularization and democracy. Part III. National and regional experiences.
Author : John S. Dryzek
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521478278
Discursive Democracy examines how the political process can be made more vital and meaningful.
Author : Michael Albertus,Victor Menaldo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107199828
Provides an innovative theory of regime transitions and outcomes, and tests it using extensive evidence between 1800 and today.
Author : Stephen Elstub,Oliver Escobar
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 624 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781786433862
Democratic innovations are proliferating in politics, governance, policy, and public administration. These new processes of public participation are reimagining the relationship between citizens and institutions. This Handbook advances understanding of democratic innovations, in theory and practice, by critically reviewing their importance throughout the world. The overarching themes are a focus on citizens and their relationship to these innovations, and the resulting effects on political equality. The Handbook therefore offers a definitive overview of existing research on democratic innovations, while also setting the agenda for future research and practice.
Author : Christopher Hobson,Milja Kurki
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-12
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781136643613
This book explores the frameworks underlying different notions of democracy, and how these influence political decisions.
Author : John B. Hay,Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development
Publisher : Canadian Centre for Foreign Policy Development
Page : 9 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Canada
ISBN : 066230151X
Author : Shoshana Zuboff
Publisher : PublicAffairs
Page : 658 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781610395700
The challenges to humanity posed by the digital future, the first detailed examination of the unprecedented form of power called "surveillance capitalism," and the quest by powerful corporations to predict and control our behavior. In this masterwork of original thinking and research, Shoshana Zuboff provides startling insights into the phenomenon that she has named surveillance capitalism. The stakes could not be higher: a global architecture of behavior modification threatens human nature in the twenty-first century just as industrial capitalism disfigured the natural world in the twentieth. Zuboff vividly brings to life the consequences as surveillance capitalism advances from Silicon Valley into every economic sector. Vast wealth and power are accumulated in ominous new "behavioral futures markets," where predictions about our behavior are bought and sold, and the production of goods and services is subordinated to a new "means of behavioral modification." The threat has shifted from a totalitarian Big Brother state to a ubiquitous digital architecture: a "Big Other" operating in the interests of surveillance capital. Here is the crucible of an unprecedented form of power marked by extreme concentrations of knowledge and free from democratic oversight. Zuboff's comprehensive and moving analysis lays bare the threats to twenty-first century society: a controlled "hive" of total connection that seduces with promises of total certainty for maximum profit -- at the expense of democracy, freedom, and our human future. With little resistance from law or society, surveillance capitalism is on the verge of dominating the social order and shaping the digital future -- if we let it.
Author : Benjamin Schuetze
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-07
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108493383
A detailed examination of the role of US and European 'democracy promoters' in Jordan based on a diverse range of original source material.
Author : Anna Lekvall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Africa
ISBN : 9186565990
"Development First, Democracy Later? explores how politics and democracy plays out in reality in Africa as the major aid-receiving continent. It points to the seriously challenged political situations that aid countries engage in. Moreover, it looks at the Paris agenda aid modalities from a democracy perspective. It illustrates the on-and-off relationship with democracy concerns in the aid system. In addition, the book points to the challenges of aid, which are too often, based on a wrongful assumption that development comes first and democracy only (hopefully) later. The book brings to question the fundamental construction of the aid system and the values that drive it. While making a push for seeing the value of democracy on its own merits, as well as its advantages for development, the book poses some serious questions on the way the aid system is built and argues for substantive changes in the aid landscape. Issues raised are relevant for many discussions - from China as a development model, the aid system and - not least - for the debate on the post-2015 Millennium Development Goals."--
Author : Antoine de Bengy Puyvallée,Kristian Bjørkdahl
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781108488792
This book argues that policymakers capitalize on Scandinavia's humanitarian reputation in world affairs to legitimize their policy and diplomatic interests.
Author : Samuel P. Huntington
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2012-09-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780806186047
Between 1974 and 1990 more than thirty countries in southern Europe, Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe shifted from authoritarian to democratic systems of government. This global democratic revolution is probably the most important political trend in the late twentieth century. In The Third Wave, Samuel P. Huntington analyzes the causes and nature of these democratic transitions, evaluates the prospects for stability of the new democracies, and explores the possibility of more countries becoming democratic. The recent transitions, he argues, are the third major wave of democratization in the modem world. Each of the two previous waves was followed by a reverse wave in which some countries shifted back to authoritarian government. Using concrete examples, empirical evidence, and insightful analysis, Huntington provides neither a theory nor a history of the third wave, but an explanation of why and how it occurred. Factors responsible for the democratic trend include the legitimacy dilemmas of authoritarian regimes; economic and social development; the changed role of the Catholic Church; the impact of the United States, the European Community, and the Soviet Union; and the "snowballing" phenomenon: change in one country stimulating change in others. Five key elite groups within and outside the nondemocratic regime played roles in shaping the various ways democratization occurred. Compromise was key to all democratizations, and elections and nonviolent tactics also were central. New democracies must deal with the "torturer problem" and the "praetorian problem" and attempt to develop democratic values and processes. Disillusionment with democracy, Huntington argues, is necessary to consolidating democracy. He concludes the book with an analysis of the political, economic, and cultural factors that will decide whether or not the third wave continues. Several "Guidelines for Democratizers" offer specific, practical suggestions for initiating and carrying out reform. Huntington's emphasis on practical application makes this book a valuable tool for anyone engaged in the democratization process. At this volatile time in history, Huntington's assessment of the processes of democratization is indispensable to understanding the future of democracy in the world.
