Politiske styreformer: demokrati

This book captures forms of democratic regression and autocratization, examines how Asia-Pacific experiences fit into debates about democracy's deepening global recession and what Asia-Pacific experiences contribute to understanding of causes, catalysts, consequences of democratic regression and resilience in comparative politics literature.

The World Social Forum (WSF) was conceived as a platform for exchange of experiences and interlinking effective action. In this book, leading intellectual-activists from four continents take stock of the WSF-experience so far and suggest new paths for collaboration between all who build other possible worlds.

This edition brings up to date the material on institutions and practices of government in Britain, the United States, and Canada, and analyses more fully the relationship of democratic institutions and practices to the essentials of the democratic creed.

'One of the greatest, most radical public thinkers of our time' ARUNDHATI ROY In these incisive interviews, activist Chomsky addresses the urgent questions of this tumultuous time, speaking to the deterioration of democracy in the United States and rising tensions globally.He examines the crumbling of the social fabric and the fractures of the Biden era, including the halting steps toward a Green New Deal, the illegitimate authority of the Supreme Court, in particular its decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, and the ongoing fallout from COVID-19. Chomsky also untangles the roots of the War in Ukraine, the diplomatic tensions among the United States, China, and Russia, and considers the need for climate action on an international scale.Illegitimate Authority exposes those who wield power in their own self-interest and plots framework for how we can stand together and fight against injustice.'The West's most prominent critic of US imperialism . . . the closest thing in the English-speaking world to an intellectual superstar' Guardian'Will there ever again be a public intellectual who commands the attention of so many across the planet?' New Statesman

Dieses Buch untersucht die zunehmende Territorialisierung des Parteienwettbewerbs und die Lockerung der unitarischen Herrschaft durch die Dezentralisierung und präsentiert eine langfristige Analyse der Wahlentwicklungen im Vereinigten Königreich seit dem Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs. Anschließend untersucht das Buch die damit einhergehende Aushöhlung des traditionellen mehrheitlichen Regierungsmodus in Großbritannien. Es analysiert die bedeutende Rolle dieser langfristigen Entwicklungen und ihre nachteiligen Auswirkungen auf die Fähigkeit des Parlaments, Themen wie das schottische Unabhängigkeitsreferendum oder das Votum des Vereinigten Königreichs für den Austritt aus der Europäischen Union zu lösen, und geht auf die ihnen zugrunde liegenden Ursachen ein. Darüber hinaus stellt der Autor einen Zusammenhang zwischen diesen Wahlentwicklungen und dem sich wandelnden Wesen der Dezentralisierung her und zeigt, wie die Vertiefung der Dezentralisierung die negativen Wahlfolgen für das britische Regierungssystem beschleunigt. Schließlich zeigt das Buch, warum sich die britische Labour-Partei als Folge dieser Entwicklungen mehr und mehr zu einer langfristigen Minderheitenpartei entwickelt. Das Buch ist ein Muss für Wissenschaftler, Studenten und politische Entscheidungsträger, die an einem besseren Verständnis der vergleichenden Politik und der Dezentralisierung im Allgemeinen sowie am speziellen Fall des Wahlsystems des Vereinigten Königreichs interessiert sind.

From the former faith adviser to President Obama comes an inspirational guide for those who seek to promote positive social change and build a more diverse and just democracyThe goal of social change work is not a more ferocious revolution; it is a more beautiful social order. It is harder to organize a fair trial than it is to fire up a crowd, more challenging to build a good school than it is to tell others they are doing education all wrong. But every decent society requires fair trials and good schools, and that’s just the beginning of the list of institutions and structures that need to be efficiently created and effectively run in large-scale diverse democracy.  We Need to Build is a call to create those institutions and a guide for how to run them well.   In his youth, Eboo Patel was inspired by love-based activists like John Lewis, Martin Luther King Jr., Badshah Khan, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Teresa, Dorothy Day, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Thich Nhat Hanh. Their example, and a timely challenge to build the change he wanted to see, led to a life engaged in the particulars of building, nourishing, and sustaining an institution that seeks to promote positive social change—Interfaith America. Now, drawing on his twenty years of experience, Patel tells the stories of what he’s learned and how, in the process, he came to construct as much as critique and collaborate more than oppose.   His challenge to us is clear: those of us committed to refounding America as a just and inclusive democracy need to defeat the things we don’t like by building the things we do.

The Consocratic PlanA PLAN FOR THE PLANET The Consocratic Plan is not a new religious text, a vague philosophical theory or a utopian dream. It is an explicit, detailed, voluntary "upgrade" to our existing democracies similar to a very flexible constitutional amendment. It sets out how we might, over time, individually and collectively: Enable many autonomous communities to live in the same area together peacefully, Remove power and the use or threat of force to resolve inter-community differences, Ensure gender equality in all political decisions, Ensure minorities are involved in all political decisions, Ensure social justice, environmental sustainability and economic rationality are always considered simultaneously when making any political decision, Ensure political representatives are personally known to those who select them, Ensure narcissists cannot buy their own selection as political representatives, Avoid election cycles which force short term solutions to long term problems, Remove social media manipulation and fake news from political decisions, Ensure the rapid, peaceful implementation of political decisionsUp until now, any one of these objectives would have seemed totally impossible to achieve in our complex, modern world where power, narcissism, money and males now rule.NOTE This Plan is entirely contained in the "Power, Chaos or Consensus?" book by the author.

The definitive and revealing account of the extraordinary parliamentary battle over Brexit and what it means for British democracy.

This book investigates the interplay between media, politics, religion, and culture in shaping Arabs' quest for more stable and democratic governance models in the aftermath of the "Arab Spring" uprisings. It focuses on online mediated public debates, specifically user comments on online Arab news sites, and their potential to re-engage citizens in politics. Contributors systematically explore and critique these online communities and spaces in the context of the Arab uprisings, with case studies, largely centered on Egypt, covering micro-bloggers, Islamic discourse online, Libyan nationalism on Facebook, and a computational assessment of online engagement, among other topics.

In Technocracy and the Epistemology of Human Behavior, thirteen political theorists, including Friedman himself, debate the implications of Power Without Knowledge for social science, modern governance, the politics of expertise, post-structuralism, anarchism, and democratic theory.

This Handbook examines the study of failure in social sciences, its manifestations in the contemporary world, and the modalities of dealing with it - both in theory and in practice. It draws together a comprehensive approach to failing, and invisible forms of cancelling out and denial of future perspectives.Underlining critical mechanisms for challenging and reimagining norms of success in contemporary society, it allows readers to understand how contemporary regimes of failure are being formed and institutionalized in relation to policy and economic models, such as neo-liberalism. While capturing the diversity of approaches in framing failure, it assesses the conflations and shifts which have occurred in the study of failure over time.Intended for scholars who research processes of inequality and invisibility, this Handbook aims to formulate a critical manifesto and activism agenda for contemporary society. Presenting an integrated view about failure, the Handbook will be an essential reading for students in sociology, social theory, anthropology, international relations and development research, organization theory, public policy, management studies, queer theory, disability studies, sports, and performance research.

This book provides a systematic overview and in-depth analysis of the effects of rebel group inclusion on democracy following the end of conflict across the globe.

A Democracy That Works argues that rather than corporate donations, Republican gerrymandering and media manipulation, the conservative ascendancy reflects the reconstruction of the rules that govern work that has disempowered workers.Using six historical case studies from the emergence of the New Deal, and its later overtaking by the conservative neoliberal agenda, to today's intersectional social justice movements, Stephen Amberg deploys situated institutional analysis to show how real actors created the rules that empowered liberal democracy for 50 years and then how Democrats and Republicans undermined democracy by changing those rules, thereby organizing working-class people out of American politics. He draws on multidisciplinary studies to argue that when employees are organized to participate at work, they are also organized to participate in politics to press for accountable government. In doing so, the book opens up analytical space to understand the unprecedented threat to liberal democracy in the U.S.A Democracy That Works is a fresh account of the crisis of democracy that illuminates how historical choices about the role of workers in the polity shaped America's liberal democracy during the 20th century. It will appeal to scholars of American politics and American political development, labor and social movements, democracy and comparative politics.

This book examines steadily-growing increases in inequality within Western capitalist democracies, examining with care the differences between these democracies rooted in their culture and institutions.

This book offers a concise and accessible introduction to debates about expertise, policy-making and democracy. It uniquely combines an overview of recent research on the policy role of experts with discussions in political philosophy and the philosophy of expertise. Starting with the fact that well-functioning democracies require experts and expert knowledge, the book examines two types of objections against granting experts a larger role in policy-making: concerns that focus on the nature and limits of expert knowledge, and those that concentrate on tensions between expertization and democracy. With this, the book discusses how expert arrangements can be organized to ensure the epistemic qualities of policies and democratic credentials, at the same time.The book will be of interest to scholars and students of political theory and democracy, public policy and administration, and to anyone interested in the role of expertise in society.

The way we glow when having a great conversation, building off each other's ideas, finding solutions we can all be satisfied with. The way we spark together when marching and chanting in protest. This is living democracy.Yes, the world looks bleak. Across our society there's a mounting sense of desperation in the face of the climate crisis, gaping economic inequality and racial injustice, increasing threat of war, and a post-truth politics divorced from reality. Extinction is in the air.But what if the solutions to our ecological, social and political crises could all be found in the same approach? What if it was possible for us to not just survive, but thrive?In Living Democracy, Greens activist Tim Hollo offers bold ideas and a positive vision. It's the end of the world as we know it, but it doesn't have to be the end of the world. In fact, around the globe, people and communities are beginning an exciting new journey.This book will inspire you, inform you, and get you fired up to co-create our common future. A living democracy.'Everyone who reads this book is generously invited to get involved in the project of our times.' - David Ritter'A brilliant conversation and action kick-starter from a man who walks the talk.'- Christine Milne'It's pretty clear that the world we've known isn't working very well anymore; we need to reinvent it, and this book brims with good ideas about what that means!' - Bill McKibben'A great vision for a bloodless coup of mutual aid and rule-governed anarchy.' - Tyson Yunkaporta'A manual for making a new and better world that shows us, with lucidity, courage and compassion, that the tools for building that world are already in our hands.' - James Bradley'I have been waiting for this book, and now that Tim Hollo has written it, I'll be putting it in the hands of pretty much everyone I know.' - Danielle Celermajer'Timely, vivid and urgent, this is a book that meets the challenges of our age head-on.' - Scott Ludlam'A brilliant treatise for our future and based on a deep understanding of First Nations knowledge - Tim Hollo has given us so much with this beautifully written work.' - Tjanara Goreng Goreng

Experts on learning for democracy come together to explore why and how the gap in civic competence should be bridged.

Democracy in America examines the democratic revolution Tocqueville observed over the previous several hundred years. The focus of the book is on why democracy has succeeded in the United States while failing in so many other places.

The Federalist Papers is a collection of 85 articles written under the pseudonym "Publius" to promote the ratification of the United States Constitution. John Jay wrote five articles, James Madison wrote 29, and Alexander Hamilton wrote 51.

This book employs a policy-based approach to examine the emerging governance structure in Taiwan, one of several countries in East Asia where democratic consolidation is firmly established.