Author : Archon Fung
Publisher : Verso
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 15,61 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 9781859846889
The forms of liberal democracy developed in the 19th century seem increasingly ill-suited to the problems we face in the 21st. This dilemma has given rise to a deliberative democracy, and this text explores four contemporary cases in which the principles have been at least partially instituted.
Author : Kenneth M. Roberts
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 20,62 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804731942
Through a comparative analysis of the political Left and social movements in Chile and Peru, this book explores the structural and institutional forces which have limited the scope and quality of democracy in contemporary Latin America.
Author : Benjamin Goldfrank
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 14,22 MB
Release : 2015-09-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0271074515
The resurgence of the Left in Latin America over the past decade has been so notable that it has been called “the Pink Tide.” In recent years, regimes with leftist leaders have risen to power in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and Venezuela. What does this trend portend for the deepening of democracy in the region? Benjamin Goldfrank has been studying the development of participatory democracy in Latin America for many years, and this book represents the culmination of his empirical investigations in Brazil, Uruguay, and Venezuela. In order to understand why participatory democracy has succeeded better in some countries than in others, he examines the efforts in urban areas that have been undertaken in the cities of Porto Alegre, Montevideo, and Caracas. His findings suggest that success is related, most crucially, to how nationally centralized political authority is and how strongly institutionalized the opposition parties are in the local arenas.
Author : Maribeth Erb
Publisher : Institute of Southeast Asian Studies
Page : 419 pages
File Size : 27,85 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9812308415
Since the fall of long-reigning President Soeharto, in 1998, Indonesia has been in an era of transition, away from an authoritarian regime, and on a quest for democracy. This quest started with decentralization laws implemented in 2001, which gave greater autonomy to the regions, and continued with the direct elections for the national and local legislatures and the President in 2004. The latest development in this democratization process is the implementation of a system for the direct election of regional leaders, which began in 2005; the first round of elections across the nation for all governors, mayors and district heads was completed in 2008. Authors of the chapters in this volume, the result of a workshop in Singapore in 2006, present data from across the archipelago for these first direct elections for local leaders and give their assessment as to how far these elections have contributed to a deepening democracy.
Author : E. Raghavan
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 20,3 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0415544548
This book studies the political transformation of Karnataka by focusing on three chief ministers who played an important role in making Karnataka more accommodative and democratic. It includes interviews and surveys which locate this work in social science literature and in comparative context alongside other Indian states.
Author : Anoop Sadanandan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 203 pages
File Size : 47,41 MB
Release : 2017-03-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1107177510
Why Democracy Deepens explains how socio-economic changes in India are shaping its politics to promote grassroots democracy.
Author : Vera Schatten Coelho
Publisher : Zed Books Ltd.
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 41,91 MB
Release : 2013-04-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1848139152
Mobilizing for Democracy is an in-depth study into how ordinary citizens and their organizations mobilize to deepen democracy. Featuring a collection of new empirical case studies from Angola, Bangladesh, Brazil, India, Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, this important new book illustrates how forms of political mobilization, such as protests, social participation, activism, litigation and lobbying, engage with the formal institutions of representative democracy in ways that are core to the development of democratic politics. No other volume has brought together examples from such a broad Southern spectrum and covering such a diversity of actors: rural and urban dwellers, transnational activists, religious groups, politicians and social leaders. The cases illuminate the crucial contribution that citizen mobilization makes to democratization and the building of state institutions, and reflect the uneasy relationship between citizens and the institutions that are designed to foster their political participation.
Author : Judith M. Green
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,62 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Political science
ISBN :
Author : Francis Adams
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 13,4 MB
Release : 2003-05-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0313056862
Adams surveys the impact of transnational organizations and NGOs on Latin American politics since 1990. The transition from military to civilian rule in Latin American countries has benefited local progressive forces, but resilient remnants favoring the past's authoritarian politics have compelled organizations like the UN, IMF, OAS, and World Bank to engage in various campaigns to deepen democratic institutions and norms. Adams argues that to understand current political transformations in the region, one must consider the existing role of external organizations. Latin America is offered as a prime example of the increased influence transnational authorities have over political decisions that had long been the exclusive prerogative of national governments. Beginning with the Latin American experience, Adams reviews the contemporary character of power and politics in the area, outlining how democratic transitions have been limited. UN human rights and reform initiatives are considered. Adams scrutinizes the work of the World Bank, the IMF, and the Inter-American Development Bank to modernize public administration, strengthen political institutions, enhance transparency and accountability, and fortify civil society. He also examines the work and impact and the Organization of American States and various global citizens groups.
Author : John Eric Brown
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 42,86 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Bolivia
ISBN : 9781032201504
"This book provides a timely and nuanced analysis of the successes and shortcoming of efforts to move beyond market democracy in Bolivia and Venezuela. A twin crisis of democratic representation and socio-economic precarity created space for anti-system outsiders to emerge on the left flank of traditional party-systems in Bolivia and Venezuela, paving the way for a "post-neoliberal" democratization process. Over the course of the projects headed by Evo Morales in Bolivia and Hugo Chávez and his successor Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela, however, power struggles emerged between a recalcitrant elite, the left-led government, and organized popular sectors. These tensions shaped the pathways that processes followed, with simultaneous democratization and de-democratization occurring whereby a partial deepening and extending of democratic quality for popular sectors was accompanied by the bending of liberal norms. Comparing the varying balance and forms of power between competing actors, this book offers a novel and rich explanation of the partial and stuttering efforts to advance a post-neoliberal democracy in Bolivia and Venezuela. Bringing important insights on the reasons for the emergence of anti-system leaders and parties, the impact that they have on the quality of democracy, and how progressive governments interact with social movements, this book will be of interest to researchers studying Latin America, as well as those specialising in development and political science more broadly"--
