Democracy and Crisis: Democratising Governance in the Twenty-First Century

✍ Scribed by Benjamin Isakhan, Steven Slaughter (eds.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 2014
Tongue: English
Leaves: 278
Category: Library

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✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-x
Introduction: Crisis and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century....Pages 1-22
Front Matter....Pages 23-23
Decentering Governance: A Democratic Turn?....Pages 25-43
The Democratic Accountability of Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector....Pages 44-67
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
The Financial Crisis as a Crisis of Public Reasoning....Pages 71-87
Neo-liberal Governance and the Protest Politics of the Occupy Movement....Pages 88-107
Governance and Democratic Legitimacy: The European Union’s Crisis of De-Politicisation....Pages 108-124
Disintegrating European Austerity in Greece and Germany....Pages 125-146
Front Matter....Pages 147-147
Democratising Governance after the Arab Revolutions: The People, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Governance Networks of Egypt....Pages 149-165
WikiLeaks and the Limits of Representative Democracy and Transnational Democratisation....Pages 166-185
Front Matter....Pages 187-187
Global Governance, Constitutionalism and Democracy....Pages 189-208
Global Unionism and Global Governance....Pages 209-228
Climate Crisis and the Limits of Liberal Democracy? Germany, Australia and India Compared....Pages 229-252
Conclusion: The Future of Democratic Governance....Pages 253-263
Back Matter....Pages 264-273

✦ Subjects

Political Science; Political Sociology; Political Theory; Political Philosophy; Public Policy; Democracy

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