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Democratic Decline and Democratic Renewal
2012The story of liberal democracy over the last half century has been a triumphant one in many ways, with the number of democracies increasing from a minority of states to a significant majority. Yet substantial problems afflict democratic states, and while the number of democratic countries has expanded, democratic practice has contracted.
Ian Marsh, Raymond Miller
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Democratic Aspirations, Democratic Ambiguities
2013Bill Ashcroft articulates the basic difficulty for Said’s work on Palestine/Israel: both “ordinary Israelis and Palestinians are locked into a structure of representations,” he writes, “a binary structure of alterity that originated before the establishment of Israel.”1 Edward Said’s response, according to Ashcroft, should be seen as a form of ...
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The Consequences of Democratization
Journal of Democracy, 2009Abstract: For the past few decades, scholars have been focusing on the causes of democratization. It is now time to devote systematic attention to analyzing the costs and benefits that democracy brings.
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Democratic Practice and Democratic Theory
2017This chapter explains how political theory becomes disengaged from political facts. If the political theorists do not engage directly in politics, they might explore the relevance, the implications, and the meaning of such empirical facts as are contained in this and similar studies. Political theory written with reference to practice has the advantage
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Democratic Challenges, Democratic Choices
2004AbstractMost democratic citizens today are distrustful of politicians, political parties, and political institutions. Where once democracies expected an allegiant public, citizens now question the very pillars of representative democracy. This book documents the erosion of political support in virtually all advanced industrial democracies. Assembling a
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Tilly, Tax Democratization, De-democratization, Re-democratization
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Democratic Process and Democratic Purpose
2017Theories of democracy have been refined to two main types by the latter part of the twentieth century, namely competitive and deliberative theories. This chapter attempts to provide an improved articulation of democracy by highlighting two concepts commonly overlooked by both schools of thought.
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