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Presents the history of Catholic political thinking from the French Revolution to the present day. This title investigates the church's response to liberal democracy, a political system for which the church was utterly unprepared.

Did capitalism lead inevitably to democracy? Can liberalism overcome the ascendant authoritarian right? For liberal democracy to survive, it must learn history's lessons.

"Danielle Allen revisits Rawls' landmark A Theory of Justice to make the case that justice, which she defines as the necessary conditions for human flourishing, requires the protection of political equality or the ability of all people who wish to participate in the political process, to do so on an equal footing. She argues that Rawls, and other thinkers in his wake who focused on protection of individuals from intrusion of the state, as well as many economists with their focus on utilitarian approaches to public policy, have neglected political equality which has led to the denial of justice to many in our society. At a time when economic and political inequality have increased dramatically, and political inequality is threatened by efforts to limit the ability of many to engage in the most basic political right, voting, this book could not be timelier. This book builds on Allen's Berlin Lectures on COVID that we just published in arguing that policymaking fails when it excludes whole communities from participation in the political process. This manuscript is based on the Berlin Lectures that Allen originally intended to deliver in 2020. Allen substituted the lectures on policymaking for COVID given the urgency of the pandemic"--

Der Nationalokonom Moritz Julius Bonn (1873-1965) gehorte zu den bekanntesten politischen Intellektuellen seiner Epoche. Bonn fungierte als Gesandter der Reichsregierung in Versailles und auf zahlreichen Konferenzen zur Reparationsfrage. Max Weber und Carl Schmitt haben ihn hoch geschatzt, Harald Laski hielt ihn fur den besten Amerika-Kenner seit Toqueville. Erstaunlicherweise hat sich mit seinem Gang ins Exil seine Spur weitgehend verloren. Es ist hochste Zeit, an diesen kosmopolitischen Liberalen und mit ihm an die vergebene Chance der Weimarer Republik zu erinnern. Er stritt fur den Parlamentarismus, den demokratischen Rechtsstaat, sozialen Pluralismus, die europaische Aussohnung und die Zahmung des Kapitalismus. Erstmals sind in diesem Band die wichtigsten Schriften der Weimarer Epoche vereint, darunter auch sein klassischer Essay Die Krisis der europaischen Demokratie, der 1925 zeitgleich in England, den USA, Frankreich und Spanien erschienen war.

Brexit is a tale of two unions, not one: the British and the European unions. Their origins are different, but both struggle to maintain unity in diversity and both have to face the challenge of populism and claims of democratic deficit.Mark Corner suggests that the »four nations« that make up the UK can only survive as part of a single nation-state, if the country looks more sympathetically at the very European structures from which it has chosen to detach itself. This study addresses both academic and lay audiences interested in the current situation of the UK, particularly the strains raised by devolution and Brexit.

Liberal democracy is in trouble. This volume considers the crosscutting causes and manifestations of the current crisis facing the liberal order.Over the last decade, liberal democracy has come under mounting pressure in many unanticipated ways. In response to seemingly endless crisis conditions, governments have turned with alarming frequency to extraordinary emergency powers derogating the rule of law and democratic processes. The shifting interconnections between new technologies and public power have raised questions about threats posed to democratic values and norms. Finally, the liberal order has been challenged by authoritarian and populist forces promoting anti- pluralist agendas. Adopting a synoptic perspective that puts liberal disorder at the center of its investigation, this book uses multiple sources to build a common historical and conceptual framework for understanding major contemporary political currents. The contributions weave together historical studies and conceptual analyses of states of exception, emergency powers, and their links with technological innovations, as well as the tension-ridden relationship between populism and democracy and its theoretical, ideological, and practical implications.The book will be of interest to scholars and students of a number of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences: history, political science, philosophy, constitutional and international law, sociology, cultural studies, anthropology, and economics.

Varieties of Clientelism makes the case that clientelistic politics takes different forms in different countries, and that this variation matters for understanding democracy, elections and governance.The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Democratization.

First published in 1964, Government Action and Morality is a philosophical study within the liberal-democratic tradition of the relationships between morality and government action, in both the domestic and the international field.

This book generates new empirical and theoretical insights by bringing together scholarship on Latin America and Sub-Saharan Africa, providing context-bound intraregional research and long-term perspectives for study of presidential term-limit change. These chapters were originally published as special issue of Democratization.

In Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative Perspective a group of leading scholars come together in a multidisciplinary collection to assess multiculturalism through an international comparative perspective.

In Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative Perspective, a group of leading scholars come together in a multidisciplinary collection to assess multiculturalism through an international comparative perspective.Multiculturalism today faces challenges like never before, through the concurrent rise of populism and white supremacist groups, and contemporary social movements mobilizing around alternative ideas of decolonization, anti-racism and national self-determination Taking these challenges head on, and with the backdrop that the term multiculturalism originated in Canada before going global, this collection of chapters presents a global comparative view of multiculturalism, through both empirical and normative perspectives, with the overarching aim of comprehending multiculturalism's promise, limitations, contemporary challenges, trajectory and possible futures. Collectively, the chapters provide the basis for a critical assessment of multiculturalism's first 50 years, as well as vital insight into whether multiculturalism is best equipped to meet the distinct challenges characterizing this juncture of the 21st century.With coverage including the Americas, Europe, Oceania, Africa and Asia, and thematic coverage of citizenship, religion, security, gender, Black Lives Matter and the post-pandemic order, Assessing Multiculturalism in Global Comparative Perspective presents a comprehensively global collection that is indispensable reading for scholars and students of diversity in the 21st century.

A fascinating story of the rise of individualism in the formerly German Western Territories of Poland after World War II and how this new culture powered Poland's democratic-capitalist development.

"The first study of the nineteenth-century heyday of petitioning, A Nation of Petitioners explores the central role of petitions in reshaping the political culture of the United Kingdom"--

This second edition of the highly respected Routledge Handbook of Russian Politics and Society provides both a broad overview of the area and highlights cutting-edge research into the country.

Megatrends of World Politics identifies globalization, integration, and democratization as three key trends shaping the future of world politics and international relations, and demonstrates their effects in today's global processes.

This book investigates how political actors and more particularly members of parliaments have reacted to Brexit to assess its long-term consequences. It is beneficial for all interested in European Studies, European Union Politics and Elections. It was originally published as special issue of Journal of Contemporary European Studies.

How Democracy Survives explores how liberal democracy can better adapt to the planetary challenges of our time by evolving beyond the Westphalian paradigm of the nation state.

This book offers a new approach for the future of democracy by advocating giving citizens the power to deliberate and to decide how to govern themselves.