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Transformations of Democracy

Crisis, Protest and Legitimation

von: Robin Celikates, Regina Kreide, Tilo Wesche
48,99 €
Verlag:	Rowman & Littlefield International
Format:	EPUB
Veröffentl.:	26.05.2015
ISBN/EAN:	9781783480906
Sprache:	englisch
Anzahl Seiten:	290

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Titelbeschreibung

Is democracy in crisis? On the one hand, it seems to be decaying under the leadership of political elites who make decisions behind closed doors. On the other hand, citizens are taking to the streets to firmly assert their political participation across the globe. Drawing on a range of theoretical and empirical perspectives, this collection examines the multiple transformations which both the practice and the idea of democracy are undergoing today. It starts by questioning whether there is a crisis of democracy, or if part of this crisis lies in the inadequacy of social and political theory to describe current challenges. Exploring a range of violent and non-violent forms of resistance, the book goes on to ask how these are related to the arts, what form of civility they require and whether they undermine the functioning of institutions. In the final section of the book, the contributors examine the normative foundations of democratic practices and institutions, especially with regard to the tension between human rights and democracy and the special character of democratic authority.

Titelkurzbeschreibung

This book interrogates whether recent global protests and civil disobedience are transforming the way we understand contemporary democracy as an institutional system.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments / Introduction, Robin Celikates, Regina Kriede and Tilo Wesche / Part I: Democracy in Crisis? / 1. The European Crisis: The Paradoxes of Constitutionalising Democratic Capitalism, Hauke Brunkhorst / 2. Democracy in Crisis: Why Political Philosophy Needs Social Theory, Regina Kreide, translated by Ciaran Cronin / 3. Radical Philosophy Encounters the Uprisings: Lessons from Greece, Costas Douzinas / 4. Citizenship, Democracy and the Plurality of Means, Forms and Levels of Participation, Andreas Niederberger / Part II: Disobedience, Protest, and the Public Sphere / 5. Being Agitated – Agitated Being: Art and Activism in Times of Protest, Oliver Marchart / 6. An Ethics of Public Political Deliberation, Simone Chambers / 7. Resisting Resistance, Jane Mansbridge / 8. Digital Publics, Digital Contestation: A New Structural Transformation of the Public Sphere?, Robin Celikates/ Part III: Democracy Revisited: New Normative Foundations for Democracy?/ 9. Is There a Human Right to Democracy?, David Miller / 10. Democracy and Moral Rights, Stefan Gosepath / 11. Normative Sources of Democratic Deliberation, Tilo Wesche / 12. Democratic Autonomy and Democratic Authority, Henry S. Richardson / Bibliography / About the Editors and Contributors / Index

Autorenportrait

Robin Celikates is associate professor of political and social philosophy at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, where he also directs the research project Transformations of Civil Disobedience. Regina Kreide is professor of political theory and history of ideas at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany and is co-director of the Collaborative Research Center Dynamics of Security. Tilo Wesche is interim professor of practical philosophy at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen, Germany.

Alternativtitel

Not many books link the nature and implications of crisis, new understandings of participation and the normative foundations of democracy. This remains a gap in the market that our book will fill.
 

 
Archibugi et al (eds): Global Democracy: Normative and Empirical Perspectives, Cambridge UP, 2011, PB £19.99, 310pp
 
This text combines normative and empirical investigations, like our book, but it focuses on the extension of democracy from the national to the international level
 

 
Smith, Democratic Innovations, Cambridge UP, 2009, PB £19.99, 231pp
 
Written for an undergraduate audience, this book compares case studies of new institutional forms of citizen participation from across the world.
 

 
Della Porta, Can Democracy Be Saved?, Polity, 2013, £16.99, 256pp.
 
This book analyses the conceptual breadth of democracy, analysing various ideas and practices of participatory and deliberative democracy.
 

 
Crouch, Post Democracy, Polity, 2004, £12.99, 144pp.
 
This text is a short polemic on the failure of existing democratic systems, which is a little dated now as it doesn’t address contemporary political and economic challenges.

Sonderbeitrag

Includes contributions from highly esteemed scholars in the field of democratic theory.
 

 
Brings together authors from different theoretical paradigms to shed new light on highly topical questions.
 

 
Offers an enlarged notion of contemporary democracy, from civil disobedience to problems of legitimation.
 

 
Fills research gap by linking philosophy of current societal problems and questions of democratic legitimation