Democracy@large
Subtitle: NGOs, political foundations, think tanks and international organizations
By: edited by Boris Petric
Series: Sciences Po series in international relations and political economy
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9781137032744
Subjects: POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General; Case studies; Research institutes; Non-governmental organizations; Democratization; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Globalization
Other titles: Democracy at large
Work titles: Fabrique de la démocratie. English
Description: "The book analyzes the transnationalization of politics in several societies concerned by programs of democracy promotion. Its main objective is to understand how these new global norms and programs create forms of appropriation and resistance at the local level. Democracy is not only a political norm glorified at the global level. The movement of human rights and democratic values equally generates also an industry of Aid. Democracy programs become symbolic and material resources, which enter into the local political game. Through the circulation and use of these kind of resources provided by transnational networks generated by the aid, there is a transfiguration of the political game. The present collective work draws upon both anthropology and political science and relies on field research carried out in Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Cuba, Romania, Indonesia, Bolivia, Nigeria, Senegal, Bulgaria and Azerbaijan. The book proposes an original reflection about the emergence of a new form of governementality, which analyses both local and global actors in specific national spaces"--
Notes: Translated from French.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: Introduction: An Empirical Analysis of Democracy Promotion and Good Governance: Displacement of Power; B.Pe;tric_& G.Blundo_; title: Between Democratization and Power Games: The World Bank and Rural Rehabilitation in Afghanistan; A.Monsutti_; title: Good Governance Brokers and Civic Movements in West Africa: The Local Appropriation of Global Anti-corruption Policies; G.Blundo; title: Nigeria, 'Democrazy,' and the German Political Foundations; M-A.Pe;rouse de Montclos_; title: Eastern Seesaw: International Aid and the Backroom Boys of Good Governance in the Former Second World; L.Atlani-Duault_; title: Kyrgyzstan: Island of Democracy or Paradise for Democracy Makers?; B.Pe;tric_; title: New Tools of Good Governance and the Council of Europe's Conditionality for Potential Members: The case of Azerbaijan; R.Mathey; title: Between Local and Global: Think Tanks as New Political Actors: A Bulgarian Example; D.Anguelova-Lavergne_; title: Bringing Back Elections in Indonesia: Law Professionals, Party Experts and Democracy-Builders; R.Bertrand_; title: An Announced Transition in Cuba: Various Ways to Democracy (Actors, Stakes, and Perspectives); D.Dimitrijevic_; title: Epilogue: Democracy Promotion: Democratization or Universalization of a New Political Framework?; B.Petric_& A.Monsutti.