The Democratization Disconnect

Author : Brian K. Grodsky
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781442269347
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Democratization Disconnect written by Brian K. Grodsky and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most recent wave of democratic revolutions has convinced many in the West of the triumph of political rights. But Grodsky argues forcefully that nothing could be further from the truth. As newly democratic regimes turn away from democracy, he clearly shows that they threaten to undermine the still-evolving notion of democratic legitimacy.

Author : Brian K. Grodsky
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442269359
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Democratization Disconnect written by Brian K. Grodsky and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-08-25 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The most recent wave of democratic revolutions has convinced many in the West of the triumph of political rights. But in this provocative book, Brian Grodsky argues forcefully that nothing could be further from the truth. Today’s revolutionaries—both democratic and non-democratic—are much like those who preceded them throughout history. They’ve all come into power promising enhanced political, but especially economic, rights: higher wages, better living standards, more security. The difference between today’s pro-democracy leaders and yesterday’s non-democratic ones, the author demonstrates, rests on the perceived international legitimacy of the democratic template. Now, when even the most abusive regimes feel the need to label themselves democracies, opponents delegitimize rulers by calling them undemocratic. This sets the stage for what Grodsky calls the “democratization disconnect.” Leaders and followers fight for political change not as an end, but as the most acceptable means to attain economic rights. But by selling democracy as a panacea for the ills of the preceding regime, new elites simultaneously cheapen the notion of democracy and, by creating unrealistic popular expectations, set it up for failure. Putting a fresh new spin on hotly debated current events, this clear-eyed and informed book will be essential reading for all politically engaged readers.

Author : Fiona Anciano
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781138541054
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy Disconnected written by Fiona Anciano and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book explores the disjuncture between urban governance and local democratic politics. It brings together academic debates on democracy, power, informality and citizenship to look at how governance is experienced, contested and enforced in Hout Bay, Cape Town. Qualitative research conducted over an extended period of time is used to explore a series of contests that range from housing and service provision through to smuggling, bringing together elements of development and decision-making that are often treated separately within a coherent understanding of urban politics and rule. This book explores local democracy and governance from a citizen-point of view, bringing together empirical work and theoretical insights to think about how different modes of governance conflict and coexist within the contemporary (Southern) city.

Author : Robert W. McChesney
Publisher : New Press, The
ISBN 13 : 1595588914
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Disconnect written by Robert W. McChesney and published by New Press, The. This book was released on 2013-03-05 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrants and skeptics alike have produced valuable analyses of the Internet's effect on us and our world, oscillating between utopian bliss and dystopian hell. But according to Robert W. McChesney, arguments on both sides fail to address the relationship between economic power and the digital world. McChesney's award-winning Rich Media, Poor Democracy skewered the assumption that a society drenched in commercial information is a democratic one. In Digital Disconnect McChesney returns to this provocative thesis in light of the advances of the digital age, incorporating capitalism into the heart of his analysis. He argues that the sharp decline in the enforcement of antitrust violations, the increase in patents on digital technology and proprietary systems, and other policies and massive indirect subsidies have made the Internet a place of numbing commercialism. A small handful of monopolies now dominate the political economy, from Google, which garners an astonishing 97 percent share of the mobile search market, to Microsoft, whose operating system is used by over 90 percent of the world's computers. This capitalistic colonization of the Internet has spurred the collapse of credible journalism, and made the Internet an unparalleled apparatus for government and corporate surveillance, and a disturbingly anti-democratic force. In Digital Disconnect Robert McChesney offers a groundbreaking analysis and critique of the Internet, urging us to reclaim the democratizing potential of the digital revolution while we still can.

Author : Seyla Benhabib
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Democratic Disconnect written by Seyla Benhabib and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Carolyn M. Hendriks
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0198843054
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.54/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mending Democracy written by Carolyn M. Hendriks and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book develops the idea of democratic mending as a way of advancing a more connective and systemic approach to democratic repair.

Author : Micah L. Sifry
Publisher : Or Books
ISBN 13 : 9781939293503
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Big Disconnect written by Micah L. Sifry and published by Or Books. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Micah L. Sifry, a longtime analyst of democracy and its role on the net, examines what he calls "The Big Disconnect." In his usual pithy, to-the-point style, he explores why data-driven politics and our digital overlords have failed or misled us, and how they can be made to serve us instead, in a real balance between citizens and state, independent of corporations.

Author : Joseph P. Tomain
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107039177
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Clean Power Politics written by Joseph P. Tomain and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clean Power Politics explains clean energy policy and the need for a successful transition to clean energy in the future.

Author : Brian K. Grodsky
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1538192128
Total Pages : 303 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Democracy Disadvantage written by Brian K. Grodsky and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2024-02-27 with total page 303 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not always an impediment to good governance, populism may sometimes prove advantageous. Grodsky assesses policy responses to the COVID19 pandemic in three populist states: the US’s democracy, China’s non-democracy, and Russia’s hybrid regime. This text is essential reading for students of comparative politics, populism, and disaster management.

Author : Fiona Anciano
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429794290
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracy Disconnected written by Fiona Anciano and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-03 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is dissatisfaction with local democracy endemic, despite the spread of new participatory institutions? This book argues that a key reason is the limited power of elected local officials, especially to produce the City. City Hall lacks control over key aspects of city decision-making, especially under conditions of economic globalisation and rapid urbanisation in the urban South. Demonstrated through case studies of daily politics in Hout Bay, Democracy Disconnected shows how Cape Town residents engage local rule. In the absence of democratic control, urban rule in the Global South becomes a complex and contingent framework of multiple and multilevel forms of urban governance (FUG) that involve City Hall, but are not directed by it. Bureaucratic governance coexists alongside market, developmental and informal forms of governance. This disconnect of democracy from urban governance segregates people spatially, socially, but also politically. Thus, while the residents of Hout Bay may live next to each other, they do not live with each other. This book will be a valuable resource for students on programmes such as urban studies, political science, sociology, development studies, and political geography.