Book Description
This book, first published in 2000, analyzes the role of economically marginalized people in recent transitions to democratic rule.
Author : Elisabeth Jean Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 42,41 MB
Release : 2000-10-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521788878
This book, first published in 2000, analyzes the role of economically marginalized people in recent transitions to democratic rule.
Author : Larry Diamond
Publisher :
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 36,69 MB
Release : 1996-07-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN :
This edition covers a wide range of conceptual, historical, institutional, and policy issues. Topics addressed include the question of civil society, and the problems confronting democratic governments and movements in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the post-communist countries.
Author : Ellen Moodie
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 45,74 MB
Release : 2011-09-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0812205979
El Salvador's civil war, which left at least 75,000 people dead and displaced more than a million, ended in 1992. The accord between the government and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN) has been lauded as a model post-Cold War peace agreement. But after the conflict stopped, crime rates shot up. The number of murder victims surpassed wartime death tolls. Those who once feared the police and the state became frustrated by their lack of action. Peace was not what Salvadorans had hoped it would be. Citizens began saying to each other, "It's worse than the war." El Salvador in the Aftermath of Peace: Crime, Uncertainty, and the Transition to Democracy challenges the pronouncements of policy analysts and politicians by examining Salvadoran daily life as told by ordinary people who have limited influence or affluence. Anthropologist Ellen Moodie spent much of the decade after the war gathering crime stories from various neighborhoods in the capital city of San Salvador. True accounts of theft, assaults, and murders were shared across kitchen tables, on street corners, and in the news media. This postconflict storytelling reframed violent acts, rendering them as driven by common criminality rather than political ideology. Moodie shows how public dangers narrated in terms of private experience shaped a new interpretation of individual risk. These narratives of postwar violence—occurring at the intersection of self and other, citizen and state, the powerful and the powerless—offered ways of coping with uncertainty during a stunted transition to democracy.
Author : Michael Bratton
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 10,55 MB
Release : 1997-08-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521556125
Appendix: The Data Set.
Author : Godwin R. Murunga
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 42,85 MB
Release : 2007-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781842778579
Shows how the struggle for democracy has been waged in civil society, through opposition parties, and amongst traditionally marginalised groups like women and the young. This book also considers the remaining impediments to democratisation, in the form of a powerful police force and damaging structural adjustment policies.
Author : Pierre Manent
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 32,75 MB
Release : 2013-07-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0691125678
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 : Enrique Desmond Arias
Publisher : Univ of North Carolina Press
Page : 303 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0807830607
Taking an ethnographic approach to understanding urban violence, Enrique Desmond Arias examines the ongoing problems of crime and police corruption that have led to widespread misery and human rights violations in many of Latin America's new democracies.
Author : Ruth Berins Collier
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 34,41 MB
Release : 1999-09-13
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521643825
Examining the experiences of Western Europe and South America, Professor Collier delineates a complex and varied set of patterns of democratization.
Author : Brad Evans
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 30,2 MB
Release : 2014-04-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745682839
What does it mean to live dangerously? This is not just a philosophical question or an ethical call to reflect upon our own individual recklessness. It is a deeply political issue, fundamental to the new doctrine of ‘resilience’ that is becoming a key term of art for governing planetary life in the 21st Century. No longer should we think in terms of evading the possibility of traumatic experiences. Catastrophic events, we are told, are not just inevitable but learning experiences from which we have to grow and prosper, collectively and individually. Vulnerability to threat, injury and loss has to be accepted as a reality of human existence. In this original and compelling text, Brad Evans and Julian Reid explore the political and philosophical stakes of the resilience turn in security and governmental thinking. Resilience, they argue, is a neo-liberal deceit that works by disempowering endangered populations of autonomous agency. Its consequences represent a profound assault on the human subject whose meaning and sole purpose is reduced to survivability. Not only does this reveal the nihilistic qualities of a liberal project that is coming to terms with its political demise. All life now enters into lasting crises that are catastrophic unto the end.
Author : Paulin J. Hountondji
Publisher : Ohio University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 38,38 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Africa
ISBN : 0896802256
"While the book's immediate concern is with Africa, the theoretical nature of its analyses and its bearing on postmodern theories of the "Other" will make this translation of great interest to many disciplines especially ethnic gender and multicultural studies."--BOOK JACKET.