Associative Democracy And The Crises Of Representative Democracies

Author : Veit Bader
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000932060
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Associative Democracy and the Crises of Representative Democracies written by Veit Bader and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-18 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The familiar problems of democratic capitalism have given way to a deep crisis challenging the basic forms of governance introduced around the late 18th century and then gradually expanded and developed until the late 20th century. Associative Democracy and the Crises of Representative Democracies argues that we are in urgent need of normative guidelines and a strong understanding of a broad range of institutional options and innovative experiments in associative democracy in order to address the structural problems that existing institutional arrangements are confronted with whilst maintaining and strengthening democratic forms of government and governance. The argument is developed against the background of a thorough survey of empirical social scientific studies on the crises of capitalisms and representative democracies. This book focuses primarily on democratic alternatives, though it also works out principles and institutions of democratic socialism as alternatives to capitalism. After introducing the theoretical approach, the book illustrates the ways this framework of analysis can be of use, with particular focus on three issues that are highly topical when it comes to the challenges our institutions are confronted with: democratic governance in relation to ecological crises and uncertainty; the threats to democracy raised by the crisis of political parties and representative party-democracy, and the challenges related to privatization and marketization of public services, particularly in healthcare. The book concludes by exploring opportunities to democratize the economy, locating viable alternatives to capitalism in the tradition of democratic socialism. This urgent and thought-provoking book will be of great interest to academics and students in various disciplines in the humanities and social sciences, including political science, sociology, and economics.

Author : Paul Q. Hirst
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 0714651710
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Associative Democracy written by Paul Q. Hirst and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to unlock the current crisis in democratic accountability by supplementing representative democracy with democratic governance in civil society.

Author : International Progress Organization
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 316 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of Representative Democracy written by International Progress Organization and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1987 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ideological background and the deficiencies of the concept of representation are being analyzed. It is shown that the present crisis of the Western democratic system is to be attributed to the form of oligarchy which has developed as a result of the «dogma of representation». The fictitious character of representation is being elaborated on the ontological, psychological and normative levels. An analysis of present and historical forms of parliamentary systems (as examples for the ideology of representation) is followed by a reflection on possible alternatives to this traditional system of power. Various forms of direct democracy are examined in regard to their practicability.

Author : Thomas Poguntke
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317611578
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizenship and Democracy in an Era of Crisis written by Thomas Poguntke and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-05-22 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Democracies are transforming worldwide, but at the same time political inequality is increasing. This development threatens to leave growing portions of mass publics effectively ‘outside’ the political process. This volume brings together leading authorities in the field of democratic citizenship and participation to address pertinent questions concerning the quality of the democratic political process at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Analysing causes and consequences of recent developments in democratic governance and citizenship, it contributes new and original research to the ongoing debate on the crisis of representative democracy. The contributors deal with a broad range of issues including aspects of democratic citizenship and citizens' perceptions of system performance, political inequality and the democratic impact of participatory innovations. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students in democratization studies, democratic citizenship, comparative politics, political sociology and political participation.

Author : Agnes Cornell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0191899062
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democratic Stability in an Age of Crisis written by Agnes Cornell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interwar period has left a deep impression on later generations. This was an age of crises where representative democracy, itself a relatively recent political invention, seemed unable to cope with the challenges that confronted it. Against the backdrop of the economic crisis that began in 2008 and the rise of populist parties, a new body of scholarship - frequently invoked by the media - has used interwar political developments to warn that even long-established Western democracies are fragile. Democratic Stability in an Age of Crisis challenges this 'interwar analogy' based on the fact that a relatively large number of interwar democracies were able to survive the recurrent crises of the 1920s and 1930s. The main aim of this book is to understand the striking resilience of these democracies, and how they differed from the many democracies that broke down in the same period. The authors advance an explanation that emphasizes the importance of democratic legacies and the strength of the associational landscape (i.e., organized civil society and institutionalized political parties). Moreover, they underline that these factors were themselves associated with a set of deeper structural conditions, which on the eve of the interwar period had brought about different political pathways. The authors' empirical strategy consists of a combination of comparative analyses of all interwar democratic spells and illustrative case studies. The book's main takeaway point is that the interwar period shows how resilient democracy is once it has had time to consolidate. On this basis, recent warnings about the fragility of contemporary democracies in Western Europe and North America seem exaggerated - or, at least, that they cannot be sustained by interwar evidence. Comparative Politics is a series for researchers, teachers, and students of political science that deals with contemporary government and politics. Global in scope, books in the series are characterized by a stress on comparative analysis and strong methodological rigour. The series is published in association with the European Consortium for Political Research. For more information visit: www.ecprnet.eu The series is edited by Susan Scarrow, Chair of the Department of Political Science, University of Houston, and Jonathan Slapin, Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Zurich.

Author : Edward A. Purcell, Jr.
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 9780813131429
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.21/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crisis of Democratic Theory written by Edward A. Purcell, Jr. and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 1973 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Paul Q. Hirst
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 238 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Associative Democracy written by Paul Q. Hirst and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ∗ Associative Democracy outlines a new and exciting theory of democracy. ∗ This volume is a major contribution to democratic thinking and political thought. ∗ Paul Hirst has contributed extensively to debates in political and social theory over more than two decades; this is his most important and original statement.

Author : Veit Bader
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136338756
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Associative Democracy written by Veit Bader and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to unlock the current crisis in democratic accountability by supplementing representative democracy with democratic governance in civil society.

Author : Jacques Bidet
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000962318
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Political Ecology of Common People written by Jacques Bidet and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-10-26 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book advances a counter-intuitive thesis: modern attacks on the global ecological balance are exclusively the result of processes of social domination, whether they are based on class, gender or nation. If this is the case, then it follows that ecological struggle and social struggle are one and the same thing. The approach is inspired by Marx’s theory, as revisited through Bourdieu and Foucault, Rawls and Habermas, and Ostrom and Wallerstein. Based on a new concept, that of “metastructure” which defines the relationship between the structural and the symbolic, it confronts contemporary debates on class, gender andcoloniality, as well as on the state, the nation and the World-System. Global social-ecological destruction is thus analysed on three registers: that of capital, which produces for profit; that of (supposed) competent authority, which produces to produce; and that of the nation, which produces to conquer. Consumerism follows from productivism, not the other way around. The question of need takes precedence over that of desire. This metastructural configuration poses the imperative constantly renewed to counter the blind logic of capital with a rational logic of organisation, and, at the same time, to counter the logic of the organisers through a democratic discursive logic. This latter is the recourse of common people. The Global South is on the front line of this struggle; and women’s struggle bears its own decisive ecological impulse.

Author : Dieter Klein
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000990419
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Within and Beyond Capitalism written by Dieter Klein and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-11-29 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book argues for a twofold transformation to mitigate environmental catastrophe, avert war and overcome poverty and authoritarianism: a struggle for democratic, peace-oriented, social and ecological changes within the framework of a post-neoliberal, but still bourgeois-capitalist society, and a drive towards entry-level projects aimed at a great transformation beyond capitalism. Calling for the embrace of core values and institutions aligned with solidarity as opposed to capitalism, it advances four guiding ideas for the pursuit of such a path: redistribution of life chances and power, socio-ecological restructuring, redesign of democratic institutions, and reversal from confrontation to peace through international cooperation and solidarity. A presentation of the fundamental elements of a left strategy for socioecological transformation, this volume will appeal to scholars of social, political and economic theory with interests in post-capitalist futures.