Author : Eyal Benvenisti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 47,99 MB
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 110841687X
This book explores how global institutions have created democratic deficits, and the role of the courts in mitigating the effects of globalization.
Author : Eyal Benvenisti
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 15,11 MB
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108267319
Between Fragmentation and Democracy explores the phenomenon of the fragmentation of international law and global governance following the proliferation of international institutions with overlapping jurisdictions and ambiguous boundaries. The authors argue that this problem has the potential to sabotage the evolution of a more democratic and egalitarian system and identify the structural reasons for the failure of global institutions to protect the interests of politically weaker constituencies. This book offers a comprehensive understanding of how new global sources of democratic deficits increasingly deprive individuals and collectives of the capacity to protect their interests and shape their opportunities. It also considers the role of the courts in mitigating the effects of globalization and the struggle to define and redefine institutions and entitlements. This book is an important resource for scholars of international law and international politics, as well as for public lawyers, political scientists, and those interested in judicial reform.
Author : Jared Sonnicksen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 2022
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781003203674
"Tensions of American Federal Democracy uses an original analytical framework combined with comparative perspectives - including those of other modern federal democracies - to explore the jigsaw puzzle that is the state of American federal democracy. The United States has a complex political system prone to "divided government", which has become highly polarized in recent years. The reasons for this extend further and deeper than party diversification or rising populism. This book provides an original contribution encompassing the US polity and its overall development. The author explores how the US constitution has predisposed branches and levels of government to multiple forms of separation of power and constituency; and how developments in democratic and federal government over time have fostered more competition, diffusion and decoupling, despite earlier trends to more cross-branch and cross-level cooperation. The book thus addresses a multifaceted inquiry, interrogating and conceptualizing the connections between institutions, ideas and political development, while exploring the interlinkage between the institutional parameters of multidimensional division of powers, constitutional political ideas and their contestation, and the limitation of the state in the US federal democratic system. This book will appeal to students and scholars of political science, American government and constitutional politics, federalism, comparative politics and political theory"--
Author : Andrew Moravcsik
Publisher : O'Reilly Media, Inc.
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,75 MB
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : 9780876092248
The authors examine the nuts and bolts of EU machinery and present a compelling argument that " ever closer union" will only be possible with greater balance and flexibility among supranational, national, and subnational actors.
Author : Alan Keenan
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780804738651
This book explores the theoretical paradoxes and practical dilemmas that flow from the still radical idea that in a democracy it is the people who rule, and argues that accepting the open and uncertain character of democratic politics can lead to more sustainable and widespread forms of democratic engagement. The author engages theorists from a range of democratic thoughtRousseau, Arendt, Benhabib, Sandel, Laclau, and Mouffeto show how each either ignores or downplays the difficulties that democratic principles pose. Though there can be no entirely valid solution to the paradoxes that plague democracy, the author nonetheless argues that democratic politicsparticularly under contemporary conditions of social fragmentation and insecurityurgently requires new practical and rhetorical strategies. The book concludes by addressing the American context, elaborating the need for a language of democratic engagement less ensnared in the anti-political logic of moralism and resentment that now characterizes the American political spectrum.
Author : Markus Prior
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 29,39 MB
Release : 2007-04-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0521858720
This 2007 book studies the impact of the media on politics in the United States during the last half-century.
Author : Cass R. Sunstein
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 27,3 MB
Release : 2018-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400890527
From the New York Times bestselling author of Nudge and The World According to Star Wars, a revealing account of how today's Internet threatens democracy—and what can be done about it As the Internet grows more sophisticated, it is creating new threats to democracy. Social media companies such as Facebook can sort us ever more efficiently into groups of the like-minded, creating echo chambers that amplify our views. It's no accident that on some occasions, people of different political views cannot even understand one another. It's also no surprise that terrorist groups have been able to exploit social media to deadly effect. Welcome to the age of #Republic. In this revealing book, New York Times bestselling author Cass Sunstein shows how today’s Internet is driving political fragmentation, polarization, and even extremism--and what can be done about it. He proposes practical and legal changes to make the Internet friendlier to democratic deliberation, showing that #Republic need not be an ironic term. Rather, it can be a rallying cry for the kind of democracy that citizens of diverse societies need most.
Author : Joshua Kurlantzick
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 45,53 MB
Release : 2013-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 030018896X
DIVSince the end of the Cold War, the assumption among most political theorists has been that as nations develop economically, they will also become more democratic—especially if a vibrant middle class takes root. This assumption underlies the expansion of the European Union and much of American foreign policy, bolstered by such examples as South Korea, the Philippines, Taiwan, and even to some extent Russia. Where democratization has failed or retreated, aberrant conditions take the blame: Islamism, authoritarian Chinese influence, or perhaps the rise of local autocrats./divDIV /divDIVBut what if the failures of democracy are not exceptions? In this thought-provoking study of democratization, Joshua Kurlantzick proposes that the spate of retreating democracies, one after another over the past two decades, is not just a series of exceptions. Instead, it reflects a new and disturbing trend: democracy in worldwide decline. The author investigates the state of democracy in a variety of countries, why the middle class has turned against democracy in some cases, and whether the decline in global democratization is reversible./div
Author : Ariel Armony
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 20,28 MB
Release : 2004-06-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804767289
This text examines the dark side of civil society - the cases in which the participation of average citizens leads to undemocratic results. It looks at associational life in pre-Nazi Germany, anti-desegregation movements in the United States and organizations for rights in democratic Argentina.
Author : Ernesto Laclau
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 2014-01-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1781681546
In this hugely influential book, Laclau and Mouffe examine the workings of hegemony and contemporary social struggles, and their significance for democratic theory. With the emergence of new social and political identities, and the frequent attacks on Left theory for its essentialist underpinnings, Hegemony and Socialist Strategy remains as relevant as ever, positing a much-needed antidote against ‘Third Way’ attempts to overcome the antagonism between Left and Right.
