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Globalizing Democracy : Power, legitimacy and the interpretation of democratic ideas.
This new edition examines some of the philosophical and theoretical issues underlying the?democratic project? which increasingly dominates the fields of comparative development and international relations. The first concern presented here is normative and epistemological: as democracy becomes more w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Manchester :
Manchester University Press,
2008.
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| Colección: | Perspectives on democratic practice.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | This new edition examines some of the philosophical and theoretical issues underlying the?democratic project? which increasingly dominates the fields of comparative development and international relations. The first concern presented here is normative and epistemological: as democracy becomes more widely accepted as the political currency of legitimacy, the more broadly it is defined. But as agreement decreases regarding the definition of democracy, the less we are able to evaluate how it is working, or indeed whether it is working at all. The second issue is causal: what are the claims being. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (289 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781847794314 1847794319 9781847795182 1847795188 |