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Domesticating Democracy
Author | : Susan Helen Ellison |
Publsiher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2018-05-04 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780822371786 |
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In Domesticating Democracy Susan Helen Ellison examines foreign-funded alternate dispute resolution (ADR) organizations that provide legal aid and conflict resolution to vulnerable citizens in El Alto, Bolivia. Advocates argue that these programs help residents cope with their interpersonal disputes and economic troubles while avoiding an overburdened legal system and cumbersome state bureaucracies. Ellison shows that ADR programs do more than that—they aim to change the ways Bolivians interact with the state and with global capitalism, making them into self-reliant citizens. ADR programs frequently encourage Bolivians to renounce confrontational expressions of discontent, turning away from courtrooms, physical violence, and street protest and coming to the negotiation table. Nevertheless, residents of El Alto find creative ways to take advantage of these micro-level resources while still seeking justice and a democratic system capable of redressing the structural violence and vulnerability that ADR fails to treat.
The People Vs Democracy
Author | : Yascha Mounk |
Publsiher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2018-03-05 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780674976825 |
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Uiteenzetting over de opkomst van het populisme en het gevaar daarvan voor de democratie.
Democracy and Education
Author | : John Dewey |
Publsiher | : Read Books Ltd |
Total Pages | : 562 |
Release | : 2013-05-31 |
Genre | : Education |
ISBN | : 9781473382800 |
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This antiquarian volume contains a comprehensive treatise on democracy and education, being an introduction to the 'philosophy of education'. Written in clear, concise language and full of interesting expositions and thought-provoking assertions, this volume will appeal to those with an interest in the role of education in society, and it would make for a great addition to collections of allied literature. The chapters of this book include: 'Education as a Necessity of Life'; 'Education as a Social Function'; 'Education as Direction'; 'Education as Growth'; 'Preparation, Unfolding, and Formal Discipline'; 'Education as Conservative and Progressive'; 'The Democratic Conception in Education'; 'Aims in Education', etcetera. We are republishing this vintage book now complete with a new prefatory biography of the author.
Authoritarian Police in Democracy
Author | : Yanilda María González |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 375 |
Release | : 2020-11-12 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781108830393 |
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Explains the persistence of violent, unaccountable policing in democratic contexts.
Domesticating Human Rights
Author | : Fidèle Ingiyimbere |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2017-05-26 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 9783319576213 |
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This book develops a philosophical conception of human rights that responds satisfactorily to the challenges raised by cultural and political critics of human rights, who contend that the contemporary human rights movement is promoting an imperialist ideology, and that the humanitarian intervention for protecting human rights is a neo-colonialism. These claims affect the normativity and effectiveness of human rights; that is why they have to be taken seriously. At the same time, the same philosophical account dismisses the imperialist crusaders who support the imperialistic use of human rights by the West to advance liberal culture. Thus, after elaborating and exposing these criticisms, the book confronts them to the human rights theories of John Rawls and Jürgen Habermas, in order to see whether they can be addressed. Unfortunately, they are not. Therefore, having shown that these two philosophical accounts of human rights do not respond convincingly to those the postco lonial challenges, the book provides an alternative conception that draws the understanding of human rights from local practices. It is a multilayer conception which is not centered on state, but rather integrates it in a larger web of actors involved in shaping the practice and meaning of human rights. Confronted to the challenges, this new conception offers a promising way for addressing them satisfactorily, and it even sheds new light to the classical questions of universality of human rights, as well as the tension between universalism and relativism.
Constructing Democracy in Transitioning Societies of Africa
Author | : S. Wing |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 245 |
Release | : 2008-04-28 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780230612075 |
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This book explores the process by which constitutions and democratic institutions are constructed. Wing focuses on how innovative constitutional dialogues involving participation, negotiation, and recognition of groups previously excluded from political decision-making may be the key to a legitimate constitution.
Taming the Gods
Author | : Ian Buruma |
Publsiher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 142 |
Release | : 2012-08-26 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780691156057 |
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For eight years the president of the United States was a born-again Christian, backed by well-organized evangelicals who often seemed intent on erasing the church-state divide. In Europe, the increasing number of radicalized Muslims is creating widespread fear that Islam is undermining Western-style liberal democracy. And even in polytheistic Asia, the development of democracy has been hindered in some countries, particularly China, by a long history in which religion was tightly linked to the state. Ian Buruma is the first writer to provide a sharp-eyed look at the tensions between religion and politics on three continents. Drawing on many contemporary and historical examples, he argues that the violent passions inspired by religion must be tamed in order to make democracy work. Comparing the United States and Europe, Buruma asks why so many Americans--and so few Europeans--see religion as a help to democracy. Turning to China and Japan, he disputes the notion that only monotheistic religions pose problems for secular politics. Finally, he reconsiders the story of radical Islam in contemporary Europe, from the case of Salman Rushdie to the murder of Theo van Gogh. Sparing no one, Buruma exposes the follies of the current culture war between defenders of "Western values" and "multiculturalists," and explains that the creation of a democratic European Islam is not only possible, but necessary. Presenting a challenge to dogmatic believers and dogmatic secularists alike, Taming the Gods powerfully argues that religion and democracy can be compatible--but only if religious and secular authorities are kept firmly apart.
Consistent Democracy
Author | : Leslie Butler |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780197685839 |
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"Consistent Democracy offers an intellectual history of the arguments, advocacy, and commentary about the so-called woman question and American popular government from the 1830s through the 1890s. What did it mean, a range of observers asked, that the world's first mass democracy only enfranchised white men? The inconsistency of women's "political non-existence" provoked a movement for change, led by familiar figures such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Movement voices were one part of a noisy and often discordant chorus. Only by attending to this broad range of competing voices can we understand popular political thought in nineteenth-century America"--