"For almost a decade, Freedom House's annual survey has highlighted a decline in democracy in most regions of the globe. While some analysts draw upon this evidence to argue that the world has entered a "democratic recession," others dispute that interpretation, emphasizing inst…
"Is Democracy in Decline? is a short book that takes up the fascinating question on whether this once-revolutionary form of government--the bedrock of Western liberalism--is fast disappearing. Has the growth of corporate capitalism, mass economic inequality, and endemic corrupti…
Now is a time of systemic change, at all levels. This is a call for rejuvenation, radicalization, and effective communications to carry out the ideological battle, as well as a real aspiration to govern. The political party Podemos stands on the edge of a historic victory in Spa…
Debatbog, hvor en række sagkyndige giver deres bidrag til, hvorledes demokratiske regler kan indpasses i Islam. Forfattere: Khaled Abou El Fadl. Nader A. Hashemi. Jeremy Waldron. Noah Feldman. M.A. Muqtedar Khan. A. Kevin Reinhart. Saba Mahmood. Bernard Haykel. Mohammad H. Fade…
"Ananda Abeysekara contends that democracy, along with its cherished secular norms, is founded on the idea of a promise deferred to the future. Rooted in democracy's messianic promise is the belief that religious - political identity-such as Buddhist, Hindu, Sinhalese, Christian…
""Liberal democracy" is the name given to a regime that much of the world lives in or aspires to, and both liberal and deliberative theorists focus much of their intellectual energy on working to reshape and perfect this regime. But what if "liberal democracy" were a contradicti…
Voting in Old and New Democracies examines voting behavior and its determinants based on 26 surveys from 18 countries on five continents between 1992 and 2008. It systematically analyzes the impact on voting choice of factors rooted in the currently dominant approaches to the st…
"Citizens around the world have become distrustful of politicians, skeptical about democratic institutions, and disillusioned about the capacity of democratic politics to resolve pressing social concerns. Many feel as if something has gone seriously wrong with democracy. Those s…
Med baggrund i de italienske regioner undersøges det, hvilken indflydelse institutionernes udformning har på det politiske liv, bureaukratiets effektivitet og borgernes livskvalitet
Med baggrund i de italienske regioner undersøges det, hvilken indflydelse institutionernes udformning har på det politiske liv, bureaukratiets effektivitet og borgernes livskvalitet.
This book brings together the conceptual and theoretical writings of Joseph Schumpeter, Robert A. Dahl, Guillermo O'Donnell, and T.H. Marshall. It demonstrates that most of the different conceptions of democracy in the democratization literature can be ordered in one systematic …
