Democracy and Crisis [electronic resource] : Democratising Governance in the Twenty-First Century /
Isakhan, B.editor.
Slaughter, S.editor.
Recent years have seen constant reports on the failures of governance and the crisis of democracy. By examining cases like Global Financial Crisis, the Arab Revolutions and Wikileaks this volume highlights tensions between governance and democracy during times of crisis and examines the prospects of democratising governance in the 21st Century.
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Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Crisis and Democracy in the Twenty-First Century; Part I: Reconsidering Governance; 1 Decentering Governance: A Democratic Turn?; 2 The Democratic Accountability of Collaborative Innovation in the Public Sector; Part II: The Global Financial Crisis and Democracy; 3 The Financial Crisis as a Crisis of Public Reasoning; 4 Neo-liberal Governance and the Protest Politics of the Occupy Movement; 5 Governance and Democratic Legitimacy: The European Union's Crisis of De-Politicisation
6 Disintegrating European Austerity in Greece and GermanyPart III: Transitional and Transnational Attempts to Democratise Governance; 7 Democratising Governance after the Arab Revolutions: The People, the Muslim Brotherhood and the Governance Networks of Egypt; 8 WikiLeaks and the Limits of Representative Democracy and Transnational Democratisation; Part IV: Global Governance and Democratic Crises; 9 Global Governance, Constitutionalism and Democracy; 10 Global Unionism and Global Governance; 11 Climate Crisis and the Limits of Liberal Democracy? Germany, Australia and India Compared
Conclusion: The Future of Democratic GovernanceIndex
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Recent years have seen constant reports on the failures of governance and the crisis of democracy. By examining cases like Global Financial Crisis, the Arab Revolutions and Wikileaks this volume highlights tensions between governance and democracy during times of crisis and examines the prospects of democratising governance in the 21st Century.
Political science.
Political sociology.
Political theory.
Political philosophy.
Public policy.
Democracy.
Political Science.
Political Sociology.
Political Theory.
Political Philosophy.
Public Policy.
Democracy.