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Democratizations: Comparisons, Confrontations, and Contrasts
A cross-disciplinary examination of democratization, as seen in different attempts at it across the globe.Democracy is not in steady state and democratizations are open-ended processes; they depend on structures and functions in systemic contexts that idiosyncratically evolve in tone, tenor, direction, and pace. They affect and are affected by scores of determinants, both perceived and hypothet…
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- 9780262270366
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 368 pages)
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The Paradox of Scientific Authority: The Role of Scientific Advice in Democra…
The authors assess the influence of scientific advice in societies that increasingly question scientific authority & expertise. This paradox is explored through an ethnographic study of the scientific advisory committee, one of the key sites for the interaction of science, policy & society.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262258609
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- 1 online resource (viii, 223 pages).
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The green state :rethinking democracy and sovereignty
What would constitute a definitively "green" state? In this important new book, Robyn Eckersley explores what it might take to create a green democratic state as an alternative to the classical liberal democratic state, the indiscriminate growth-dependent welfare state, and the neoliberal market-focused state--seeking, she writes, "to navigate between undisciplined political imagination and pes…
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- 9780262272131
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 331 pages)
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Consensus and global environment governance :deliberative democracy in nature…
In this book, Walter Baber and Robert Bartlett explore the practical and conceptual implications of a new approach to international environmental governance. Their proposed approach, juristic democracy, emphasizes the role of the citizen rather than the nation-state as the source of legitimacy in international environmental law; it is rooted in local knowledge and grounded in democratic deliber…
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- 9780262327046
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- 1 online resource (xviii, 251 pages) :map.
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The Road to Democracy in Iran
A famous Iranian dissident calls for universal human rights and democracy based on our common humanity.
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The road to democracy in Iran /
A famous Iranian dissident calls for universal human rights and democracy based on our common humanity.
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Democracy despite itself :why a system that shouldn't work at all works so well
"Voters often make irrational decisions based on inaccurate and irrelevant information. Politicians are often inept, corrupt, or out of touch with the will of the people. Elections can be determined by the design of the ballot and the gerrymandered borders of a district. And yet, despite voters who choose candidates according to the boxer--brief dichotomy and politicians who struggle to put tog…
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- 9780262301701
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- 1 online resource (245 pages) :illustrations
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Deliberative democracy: essays on reason and politics
"The anthology opens with four key essays - by Jon Elster, Jurgen Habermas, Joshua Cohen, and John Rawls - that helped establish the current inquiry into deliberative models of democracy. The nine essays that follow represent the latest efforts of leading democratic theorists to tackle various problems of deliberative democracy. All the contributions address tensions that arise between reason a…
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- 9780262268936
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- 1 online resource (xxx, 447 pages)
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Democracy and new media
Digital technology is changing our politics. The World Wide Web is already a powerful influence on the public's access to government documents, the tactics and content of political campaigns, the behavior of voters, the efforts of activists to circulate their messages, and the ways in which topics enter the public discourse. The essays collected here capture the richness of current discourse ab…
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- 9780262276290
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- 1 online resource (x, 385 pages).
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Democracy across borders: from Demos to Demoi
An innovative conception of democracy for an era of globalization and delegation of authority beyond the nation-state: rule by peoples across borders rather than by "the people" within a fixed jurisdiction.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262268943
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- 1 online resource (viii, 219 pages).
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