Towards A Radical Democracy Routledge Revivals

Author : Douglas Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317831861
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards a Radical Democracy (Routledge Revivals) written by Douglas Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1988, this is the first systematic account of the writings of Hungarian dissidents and former students of George Lukacs, collectively known as the 'Budapest School'. Dr. Brown demonstrates the importance of their work in contributing to a logically consistent yet realistic theory of socialist mixed economies, and genuine radical democracies. The Budapest Schoool's model of radical democracy represents a critique of both industrial capitalism and existing socialist systems, with immediate political as well as philosophical importance. Dr. Brown is particularly concerned to draw out its significance for the practical realities of political economy, and the logical implications for desirable reform of Western mixed economies.

Author : Douglas Brown
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317831853
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Towards a Radical Democracy (Routledge Revivals) written by Douglas Brown and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-12-19 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1988, this is the first systematic account of the writings of Hungarian dissidents and former students of George Lukacs, collectively known as the 'Budapest School'. Dr. Brown demonstrates the importance of their work in contributing to a logically consistent yet realistic theory of socialist mixed economies, and genuine radical democracies. The Budapest Schoool's model of radical democracy represents a critique of both industrial capitalism and existing socialist systems, with immediate political as well as philosophical importance. Dr. Brown is particularly concerned to draw out its significance for the practical realities of political economy, and the logical implications for desirable reform of Western mixed economies.

Author : David Trend
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113666078X
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Democracy written by David Trend and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radical Democracy addresses the loss of faith in conventional party politics and argues for new ways of thinking about diversity, liberty and civic responsibility. The cultural and social theorists in Radical Democracy broaden the discussion beyond the conventional and conservative rhetoric by investigating the applicability of radical democracy in the United States. Issues debated include whether democracy is primarily a form of decision making or an instrument of popular empowerment; and whether democracy constitutes an abstract ideal or an achievable goal.

Author : Tom B. Bottomore
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136923225
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critics of Society (Routledge Revivals) written by Tom B. Bottomore and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1967, this essay in the interpretation of radical social thought deals mainly with the radical theorists rather than the doctrines of social and political movements, but makes an exception in an important discussion of the new radicalism of the 1960s. The author's main concern is to lay bare the connections between intellectual dissent and theories of society, and in so doing to to explore the neglected subject of the heritage of American radical thinking. Readers of this book will not only emerge enlightened by Professor Bottomore's impressive knowledge of American radical thought, but with a greatly increased understanding of contemporary American history. He ends with the question of whether the new radicalism can find a firmer basis than the student movement or the negro revolt; cn produce an ideology both responsive to the doutbs and complexties of our time and capable of directing action to plausible ends.

Author : James Muldoon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351205617
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Council Democracy written by James Muldoon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The return to public assemblies and direct democratic methods in the wave of the global "squares movements" since 2011 has rejuvenated interest in forms of council organisation and action. The European council movements, which developed in the immediate post-First World War era, were the most impressive of a number of attempts to develop workers’ councils throughout the twentieth century. However, in spite of the recent challenges to liberal democracy, the question of council democracy has so far been neglected within democratic theory. This book seeks to interrogate contemporary democratic institutions from the perspective of the resources that can be drawn from a revival and re-evaluation of the forgotten ideal of council democracy. This collection brings together democratic theorists, socialists and labour historians on the question of the relevance of council democracy for contemporary democratic practices. Historical reflection on the councils opens our political imagination to an expanded scope of the possibilities for political transformation by drawing from debates and events at an important historical juncture before the dominance of current forms of liberal democracy. It offers a critical perspective on the limits of current democratic regimes for enabling widespread political participation and holding elites accountable. This timely read provides students and scholars with innovative analyses of the councils on the 100th anniversary of their development. It offers new analytic frameworks for conceptualising the relationship between politics and the economy and contributes to emerging debates within political theory on workplace, economic and council democracy.

Author : Alexandros Kioupkiolis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781315603469
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Democracy and Collective Movements Today written by Alexandros Kioupkiolis and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Irving Louis Horowitz
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135228299
Total Pages : 301 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radicalism and the Revolt Against Reason (Routledge Revivals) written by Irving Louis Horowitz and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-10 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Radicalism and the Revolt Against Reason is a work that continues to have a steady and large scale impact on political and social theory fifty years since its first appearance. A study of how radical thought modifies its actions and ideologies in a time of unrealized and frustrated expectations, the focus is on Georges Sorel and the Europe of the fin de siècle, a time when socialist revolution was forcefully set aside by liberal reform. In a technique that presaged contemporary period, radical demands did not simply dissolve or disappear, they profoundly changed emphasis from the impersonal forces of history to highly personal forces of individual will. This edition includes a substantial brand new introduction by the author.

Author : Jane Mummery
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315436841
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radicalizing Democracy for the Twenty-first Century written by Jane Mummery and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Part I Situating radical democracy -- 1 The idea of democracy -- 2 Theories of radical democracy -- Part II Radical democracy in action -- 3 Subjects and agency: Who is the radical democrat? -- 4 Communities in question: Where is the radical democrat? -- 5 Radical deliberations: The radical democrat in action -- Part III Radical democracy in a globalized world -- 6 Radical cosmopolitanism -- 7 Greening democracy as radical democracy -- Conclusion -- Index

Author : Keith Dixon
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135155933
Total Pages : 173 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom and Equality (Routledge Revivals) written by Keith Dixon and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-01-22 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unashamedly polemical, this reissue of Freedom & Equality, first published in 1986, presents a strong and persuasively argued case for democratic socialism. In contrast to many recent books justifying conservatism and varieties of Marxism, Keith Dixon defends the two great principles underpinning democratic socialism – freedom and equality. He aims both to restore the idea of freedom to its proper place in the political vocabulary of the left and to defend a stark version of freedom as absence of constraint. Only this version of freedom, he argues, is consistent with the proper defence of civil liberties. Dixon also defends radical egalitarianism from its critics, who either repudiate its full force or reject it out of hand. He believes that freedom and equality are potentially realizable socialist goals, that democratic socialism is not necessarily linked with fraternalism, and – above all – that it should be based upon a firm and consistent conception of individuality.

Author : Francis Castles
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135195536
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Social Democratic Image of Society (Routledge Revivals) written by Francis Castles and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-07-15 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, originally published in 1978, constitutes a genuinely comparative study of the world's only truly succesful democratic socialist parties: the Social Democraic Parties of Denmark, Norway and Sweden. The measure of achievement is not merely political success, the fact that in Scandinavia the Social Democrats have become 'natural parties of goverment', for just as importantly, the author shows that a political success grounded on the symbiotic relationship between party and trade union movement has been the foundation for a higher level of welfare state provision and egalitarian striving than in virtually any other advanced Western nations. It is a book for friends and foes of democratic socialism alike; for the former to provide an understanding of the tasks ahead and for the latter to know the enemy better.