Author : Elisabeth Jean Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 22,37 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 : 27,35 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 : Elisabeth Jean Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 28,11 MB
Release : 2003-08-04
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521010504
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Author : Elisabeth Jean Wood
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 15,59 MB
Release : 2000-11-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780521783231
The recent replacement of authoritarian rule by democracy in both South Africa and El Salvador poses a puzzle: why did the powerful, anti-democratic elites of these countries abandon death squads, apartheid, and the other tools of political repression and take a chance on democracy? Forging Democracy From Below shows how popular mobilization--in El Salvador an effective guerilla army supported by peasant collaboration and in South Africa a powerful alliance of labor unions and poor urban dwellers--forced the elite to the bargaining table, and why a durable settlement and democratic government were the result.
Author : David Lea
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 1857431162
Provides an impartial record of the political events that have helped to shape social, cultural, geographical and economic history in the countries of Africa. Key features include: * Individual country profiles * The major political events that have shaped each country * Charts each country's political progress * Covers major events and developments from the early history of each nation to recent events * Greater emphasis is given to more comtemporary events, particularly in nations that have undergone major political upheaval in recent years * Details the elections, wars, disputes, diplomatic activities and changes to national borders by invasion, annexation and treaty that have had a major influence on history
Author : Michael Albertus
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 47,65 MB
Release : 2018-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 110819642X
This book argues that - in terms of institutional design, the allocation of power and privilege, and the lived experiences of citizens - democracy often does not restart the political game after displacing authoritarianism. Democratic institutions are frequently designed by the outgoing authoritarian regime to shield incumbent elites from the rule of law and give them an unfair advantage over politics and the economy after democratization. Authoritarianism and the Elite Origins of Democracy systematically documents and analyzes the constitutional tools that outgoing authoritarian elites use to accomplish these ends, such as electoral system design, legislative appointments, federalism, legal immunities, constitutional tribunal design, and supermajority thresholds for change. The study provides wide-ranging evidence for these claims using data that spans the globe and dates from 1800 to the present. Albertus and Menaldo also conduct detailed case studies of Chile and Sweden. In doing so, they explain why some democracies successfully overhaul their elite-biased constitutions for more egalitarian social contracts.
Author : Milly Williamson
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,2 MB
Release : 2016-10-18
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1509511431
It is a truism to suggest that celebrity pervades all areas of life today. The growth and expansion of celebrity culture in recent years has been accompanied by an explosion of studies of the social function of celebrity and investigations into the fascination of specific celebrities. And yet fundamental questions about what the system of celebrity means for our society have yet to be resolved: Is celebrity a democratization of fame or a powerful hierarchy built on exclusion? Is celebrity created through public demand or is it manufactured? Is the growth of celebrity a harmful dumbing down of culture or an expansion of the public sphere? Why has celebrity come to have such prominence in today’s expanding media? Milly Williamson unpacks these questions for students and researchers alike, re-examining some of the accepted explanations for celebrity culture. The book questions assumptions about the inevitability of the growth of celebrity culture, instead explaining how environments were created in which celebrity output flourished. It provides a compelling new history of the development of celebrity (both long-term and recent) which highlights the relationship between the economic function of celebrity in various media and entertainment industries and its changing social meanings and patterns of consumption.
Author : Antonio Negri
Publisher : Polity
Page : 211 pages
File Size : 17,16 MB
Release : 2008-07-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745637051
This new book from Antonio Negri, one of the most influential political thinkers writing today, provides a concise and accessible introduction to the key ideas of his recent work. Giving the reader a sense of the wider context in which Negri has developed the ideas that have become so central to current debates, the book is made up of five lectures which address a series of topics that are dealt with in his world-famous books empire, globalization, multitude, sovereignty, democracy. Reflections on Empire will appeal to anyone interested in current debates about the ways in which the world is changing today, to the many people who are followers of Negri's work and to students and scholars in sociology, politics and cultural studies.
Author : Jeremy Brecher
Publisher : South End Press
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 38,87 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780896086227
Brecher, Costello, and Smith chart out a dynamic and innovative strategy for building the movement to challenge unchecked coporate globalization.
Author : Gosta Esping-Andersen
Publisher : Polity
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 49,95 MB
Release : 2009-08-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0745643159
Our future depends very much on how we respond to three great challenges of the new century, all of which threaten to increase social inequality: first, how we adapt institutions to the new role of women; second, how we prepare our children for the knowledge economy; and, third, how we respond to the new demography.
