James Dawson

Cultures of Democracy in Serbia and Bulgaria

How Ideas Shape Publics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Starting from the premise that citizens can only uphold the institutions of liberal democracy when they understand and identify with the principles enshrined in them, the author applies normative public sphere theory to the analysis of political discourse and everyday discussion in Serbia and Bulgaria. Moving beyond the narrow focus on institutions that currently prevails in studies of democratization, this book demonstrates the value of a more ethnographic and society-oriented approach.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. November 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781472443083
• ISBN-10: 147244308X
• Artikelnr.: 45006585

Autorenporträt

James Dawson lectures at the School of Public Policy, University College London, where he currently serves as Director of MSc Democracy and Comparative Politics.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 The Neglect of Citizens in the Measurement of Liberal Democracy:
An Agenda for the Application of Public Sphere Theory to Central and
Eastern Europe; Chapter 2 Liberal Institutions, Illiberal Democracy? The
Public Spheres of Serbia and Bulgaria Compared; Chapter 3 Political
Pluralism in the Mathematical or the Philosophical Sense? Comparing the
Range of Discourse in Recent Serbian and Bulgarian Political History;
Chapter 4 Publics and Counterpublics in Serbia: Public Sphere Pluralism in
Ni; Chapter 5 Disenchantment without Coherence in Bulgaria:The Absence of
Public Sphere Pluralism in Plovdiv; Chapter 6 Conclusion: Evaluating
Democracy through the Public Sphere; Chapter 7 Postscript: On the Bulgarian
Protests of 2013 and the Spectre of Authoritarian Populism in Serbia;