Democracy, Participation and Contestation (eBook, PDF)

Civil society, governance and the future of liberal democracy
Redaktion: Avril, Emmanuelle; Neem, Johann

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Using new areas of research, this book argues that the ideals and the practices of Anglo-American democracy can be best understood by studying diverse forms of participation, which go beyond classical expressions of contestation and dissent such as voting. The authors analyze political parties, social movements, communications and social media, governance, cultural diversity, identity politics, public-private actors and social cohesion to illustrate how the structure and context of popular participation play a significant role in whether, and when, citizens¿ efforts have any meaningful impact on those who exercise political power. In doing so, the authors take crucial steps towards understanding how a vigorous public sphere and popular sovereignty can be made to work in today's global environment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 322
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. August 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317750772
• Artikelnr.: 49352620

Autorenporträt

Emmanuelle Avril is Professor in British Politics and Society at Université Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, France. Johann Neem is Associate Professor of History at Western Washington University, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations and tables List of Contributors Acknowledgements
Introduction "Contested Democracy": A critical evaluation Emmanuelle Avril
& Johann Neem Part I Contested Definitions of Democracy Chapter 1
Rethinking 1828: The Emergence of Competing Democracies in the United
States Reeve Huston Chapter 2: Some Ideological Aspects of the 'Battle of
Cable Street' Christos Efstathiou Chapter 3 Democracy inc. and Radical
Criticism in the US Pierre Guerlain Chapter 4 Is Equality the Goal?:
Challenging Economic Inequality in the US and UK Scot T. Fitzgerald Part II
Who Participates? Political Inclusion and Exclusion Chapter 5 Democracy:
America's Other "Peculiar Institution" Andrew W. Robertson Chapter 6
Undocumented Immigrants, From Pariahs to Citizens? Mobilizations and
Arguments in Favor of Inclusion James Cohen Chapter 7 Productive Protest?
The contested higher education reforms in England under the Coalition
Government Sarah Pickard Chapter 8 A Tale of Polarizations: Stress, Inertia
and Social Change in the New Gilded Age Jean-Baptiste Velut Part III
Governance and the Management of Democratic Processes Chapter 9 Public
Participation, Planning and Housing: a Changing Balance of Power? David Fée
Chapter 10 The English Regions since 1994: Decentralization and the
Contested Terrain of Territorial Governance Houari Mired Chapter 11 The
European Citizens' Initiative: the Influence of Anglo-American Governance
Ideology on Recent EU Institutional Reforms Coralie Raffenne Chapter 12
Channeling Indigenous Contestation of Uranium Mining in Australia:
Legislation, Negotiation, Co-optation Sandrine Tolazzi Chapter 13 Partners
not protesters? Managing Contests to Traditional Democracy through Expanded
Public Input into Political Decision-making Jennifer Lees-Marshment Part IV
A Changing Public Sphere. New Spaces and New Tools Chapter 14 Contested
Boundaries of Representation: Patterns of Transformation in Black
Petitioning in Massachusetts, 1770-1850 Daniel Carpenter and Nicole Topich
Chapter 15: Social networks and Democracy: Fightbacks and Backlashes in the
World Wide Agora Emmanuelle Avril Chapter 16 Local Democracy and Public
Spaces in Contest: Graffiti in San Francisco Guillaume Marche Chapter 17 A
Faux-Public Sphere: Liberty Mutual Markets an Online Conversation Economy
for Citizen-Consumers Sheena Raja Chapter 18 Social Media and Political
Activism: Breaking the Offline and Online Division Cristiana Olcese
Concluding remarks: Does Democracy Have a Future? Gary Gerstle Index