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The trouble with democracy : political modernity in the 21st century /
Shows why the perception that we live in an era of human rights and incessant democratisation is dangerously misleading. Western political thought has long maintained that democracy, once achieved, is here to stay. This view appears to be supported by successive 'waves of democratisation'...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : re-interpreting democracy for our time / Gerard Rosich and Peter Wagner
- Autonomy in and between polities : democracy and the need for collective political selves / Gerard Rosich
- Rethinking "modern" democracy : political modernity and constituent power / Andreas Kalyvas
- Democratic surplus and democracy-in-failing : on ancient and modern self-cancelation of democracy / Nathalie Karagiannis
- Setbacks of women's emancipation (condition, consequence, measure and ruse) / Geneviève Fraisse
- Political modernity, democracy and state-society relations in Latin America : a new socio-historical problématique? / Manuel A. Garretón
- Communitarian cosmopolitanism : Argentina's recuperated factories, neoliberal globalisation and democratic citizenshp : an Arendtian perspective / Carlos A. Forment
- Middle-classing in Roodepoort : unexpected sites of post-apartheid "community" / Ivor Chipkin
- Democracy and capitalism in Europe, Brazil and South Africa / Peter Wagner
- From realism to activism : a critique of resignation in political theory / Lea Ypi
- The world as we find it : a suggestion for a democratic theory for our times / Tracy B. Strong
- Epilogue : democracy as capacity for self-transformation / Gerard Rosich and Peter Wagner.