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Author: Daniele Archibugi Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691134901 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 321
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Examines the prospects for cosmopolitan democracy as a viable and humane response to the challenges of globalization. This book looks at various aspects of cosmopolitan democracy in theory and practice.
Author: Daniele Archibugi Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691134901 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 321
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Examines the prospects for cosmopolitan democracy as a viable and humane response to the challenges of globalization. This book looks at various aspects of cosmopolitan democracy in theory and practice.
Author: Edwina S. Campbell Publisher: SIU Press ISBN: 080933478X Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 282
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8. Home: 1879 -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Chronology of Grant's Diplomacy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the author -- The World of Ulysses S. Grant series statement -- Back Cover
Author: Luis Cabrera Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139492543 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages :
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In this novel account of global citizenship, Luis Cabrera argues that all individuals have a global duty to contribute directly to human rights protections and to promote rights-enhancing political integration between states. The Practice of Global Citizenship blends careful moral argument with compelling narratives from field research among unauthorized immigrants, activists seeking to protect their rights, and the 'Minuteman' activists striving to keep them out. Immigrant-rights activists, especially those conducting humanitarian patrols for border-crossers stranded in the brutal Arizona desert, are shown as embodying aspects of global citizenship. Unauthorized immigrants themselves are shown to be enacting a form of global 'civil' disobedience, claiming the economic rights central to the emerging global normative charter while challenging the restrictive membership regimes that are the norm in the current global system. Cabrera also examines the European Union, seeing it as a crucial laboratory for studying the challenges inherent in expanding citizen membership.
Author: Frances McCall Rosenbluth Publisher: Yale University Press ISBN: 0300232756 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 335
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How popular democracy has paradoxically eroded trust in political systems worldwide, and how to restore confidence in democratic politics Democracies across the world are adopting reforms to bring politics closer to the people. Parties have turned to primaries and local caucuses to select candidates. Ballot initiatives and referenda allow citizens to enact laws directly. Many democracies now use proportional representation, encouraging smaller, more specific parties rather than two dominant ones. Yet voters keep getting angrier. There is a steady erosion of trust in politicians, parties, and democratic institutions, culminating most recently in major populist victories in the United States, the United Kingdom, and elsewhere. Frances Rosenbluth and Ian Shapiro argue that devolving power to the grass roots is part of the problem, not the solution. Efforts to decentralize political decision-making make governments and especially political parties less effective and less able to address constituents' long-term interests. To revive confidence in governance, we must restructure our political systems to restore power to the core institution of representative democracy: the political party.
Author: Harry C. Boyte Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press ISBN: 0812204212 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 259
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Increasingly a spectator sport, electoral politics have become bitterly polarized by professional consultants and lobbyists and have been boiled down to the distributive mantra of "who gets what." In Everyday Politics, Harry Boyte transcends partisan politics to offer an alternative. He demonstrates how community-rooted activities reconnect citizens to engaged, responsible public life, and not just on election day but throughout the year. Boyte demonstrates that this type of activism has a rich history and strong philosophical foundation. It rests on the stubborn faith that the talents and insights of ordinary citizens—from nursery school to nursing home—are crucial elements in public life. Drawing on concrete examples of successful public work projects accomplished by diverse groups of people across the nation, Boyte demonstrates how citizens can master essential political skills, such as understanding issues in public terms, mapping complex issues of institutional power to create alliances, raising funds, communicating, and negotiating across lines of difference. He describes how these skills can be used to address the larger challenges of our time, thereby advancing a renewed vision of democratic society and freedom in the twenty-first century.
Author: Augusto Lopez-Claros Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108476961 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 561
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Identifies the major weaknesses in the current United Nations system and proposes fundamental reforms to address each. This title is also available as Open Access.
Author: Seth Lartey Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 108
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Through case studies, this book explores governance debates in India, West and Central Africa, the Pacific and the Caribbean, and provides recommendations on the effective participation of citizens in democratic processes and the role of civil society.
Author: K. Breen Publisher: Springer ISBN: 0230293174 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 288
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Explores the ways in which the nation-state and nationalism are challenged by contemporary realities. This volume addresses changes to our understanding of national sovereignty, problems posed by violent conflict between rival national projects, the feasibility of postnationalist democracy and citizenship, and the debate over global justice.
Author: Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1108187978 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 341
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Citizens around the world look to the state for social welfare provision, but often struggle to access essential services in health, education, and social security. This book investigates the everyday practices through which citizens of the world's largest democracy make claims on the state, asking whether, how, and why they engage public officials in the pursuit of social welfare. Drawing on extensive fieldwork in rural India, Kruks-Wisner demonstrates that claim-making is possible in settings (poor and remote) and among people (the lower classes and castes) where much democratic theory would be unlikely to predict it. Examining the conditions that foster and inhibit citizen action, she finds that greater social and spatial exposure - made possible when individuals traverse boundaries of caste, neighborhood, or village - builds citizens' political knowledge, expectations, and linkages to the state, and is associated with higher levels and broader repertoires of claim-making.
Author: Daniele Archibugi
Author: Daniele Archibugi
Author: Edwina S. Campbell
Author: Luis Cabrera
Author: James Bryce Bryce (Viscount)
Author: Frances McCall Rosenbluth
Author: Harry C. Boyte
Author: Augusto Lopez-Claros
Author: Seth Lartey
Author: K. Breen
Author: Gabrielle Kruks-Wisner