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This volume brings together preeminent scholars from around the world in a collection of essays that point to a changing and broadening agenda of democracy.
Author : Takashi Inoguchi
Publisher :
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 16,18 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
This volume brings together preeminent scholars from around the world in a collection of essays that point to a changing and broadening agenda of democracy.
Author : Julia Lane
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 187 pages
File Size : 34,13 MB
Release : 2021-10-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0262542749
A wake-up call for America to create a new framework for democratizing data. Public data are foundational to our democratic system. People need consistently high-quality information from trustworthy sources. In the new economy, wealth is generated by access to data; government's job is to democratize the data playing field. Yet data produced by the American government are getting worse and costing more. In Democratizing Our Data, Julia Lane argues that good data are essential for democracy. Her book is a wake-up call to America to fix its broken public data system.
Author : Bruno Latour
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 27,27 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674039963
A major work by one of the more innovative thinkers of our time, Politics of Nature does nothing less than establish the conceptual context for political ecology—transplanting the terms of ecology into more fertile philosophical soil than its proponents have thus far envisioned. Bruno Latour announces his project dramatically: “Political ecology has nothing whatsoever to do with nature, this jumble of Greek philosophy, French Cartesianism and American parks.” Nature, he asserts, far from being an obvious domain of reality, is a way of assembling political order without due process. Thus, his book proposes an end to the old dichotomy between nature and society—and the constitution, in its place, of a collective, a community incorporating humans and nonhumans and building on the experiences of the sciences as they are actually practiced. In a critique of the distinction between fact and value, Latour suggests a redescription of the type of political philosophy implicated in such a “commonsense” division—which here reveals itself as distinctly uncommonsensical and in fact fatal to democracy and to a healthy development of the sciences. Moving beyond the modernist institutions of “mononaturalism” and “multiculturalism,” Latour develops the idea of “multinaturalism,” a complex collectivity determined not by outside experts claiming absolute reason but by “diplomats” who are flexible and open to experimentation.
Author : Philip Oxhorn
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 41,67 MB
Release : 2011
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0271048948
"Devoting particular emphasis to Bolivia, Chile, and Mexico, proposes a theory of civil society to explain the economic and political challenges for continuing democratization in Latin America"--Provided by publisher.
Author : Robert J. Brulle
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780262522816
In this book Robert Brulle draws on a broad range of empirical and theoretical research to investigate the effectiveness of U.S. environmental groups. Brulle shows how Critical Theory--in particular the work of Jürgen Habermas--can expand our understanding of the social causes of environmental degradation and the political actions necessary to deal with it. He then develops both a pragmatic and a moral argument for broad-based democratization of society as a prerequisite to the achievement of ecological sustainability. From the perspectives of frame analysis, resource mobilization, and historical sociology, using data on more than one hundred environmental groups, Brulle examines the core beliefs, structures, funding, and political practices of a wide variety of environmental organizations. He identifies the social processes that foster the development of a democratic environmental movement and those that hinder it. He concludes with suggestions for how environmental groups can make their organizational practices more democratic and politically effective.
Author : Michael Coppedge
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 397 pages
File Size : 38,10 MB
Release : 2022-06-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1316514412
Evaluates the most important explanations for democratization and democratic decline, using new global data extending across modern history.
Author : Vikas Kumar
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 15,54 MB
Release : 2015-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1466685034
Life in the digital era offers an array of new and invigorating opportunities, as well as a new set of challenges when facing the dissemination of fresh innovations. While once reserved for personal use, online platforms are now being utilized for more critical purposes, such as ocial revolution, political influence, and governance at both the local and national levels. Promoting Social Changes and Democracy through Information Technology is a definitive reference source for the latest scholarly research on the use of the internet, mobile phones, and other digital platforms for political discourse between citizens and governments. Focusing on empirical case studies and pivotal theoretical applications of technology within political science and social activism, this comprehensive book is an essential reference source for advanced-level students, researchers, practitioners, and academicians interested in the changing landscape of democratic development and social welfare.
Author : Amin Saikal
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 31,69 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :
Part I. Democratic peace, conflict prevention, and the United Nations. Part II. Secularization and democracy. Part III. National and regional experiences.
Author : Sheila Jasanoff
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 21,66 MB
Release : 2011-06-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400837316
Biology and politics have converged today across much of the industrialized world. Debates about genetically modified organisms, cloning, stem cells, animal patenting, and new reproductive technologies crowd media headlines and policy agendas. Less noticed, but no less important, are the rifts that have appeared among leading Western nations about the right way to govern innovation in genetics and biotechnology. These significant differences in law and policy, and in ethical analysis, may in a globalizing world act as obstacles to free trade, scientific inquiry, and shared understandings of human dignity. In this magisterial look at some twenty-five years of scientific and social development, Sheila Jasanoff compares the politics and policy of the life sciences in Britain, Germany, the United States, and in the European Union as a whole. She shows how public and private actors in each setting evaluated new manifestations of biotechnology and tried to reassure themselves about their safety. Three main themes emerge. First, core concepts of democratic theory, such as citizenship, deliberation, and accountability, cannot be understood satisfactorily without taking on board the politics of science and technology. Second, in all three countries, policies for the life sciences have been incorporated into "nation-building" projects that seek to reimagine what the nation stands for. Third, political culture influences democratic politics, and it works through the institutionalized ways in which citizens understand and evaluate public knowledge. These three aspects of contemporary politics, Jasanoff argues, help account not only for policy divergences but also for the perceived legitimacy of state actions.
Author : Mehrdad Vahabi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 429 pages
File Size : 48,89 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1107133971
This book analyses conflict theory through one type of conflict in particular: manhunting, or predation.