Tag: Democratic

Free Download Taras Kuzio, "Democratic Revolution in Ukraine"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 0415846986 | EPUB | pages: 198 | 0.5 mb
In 2000 a beheaded journalist was found in a remote forest near Kyiv. The corpse led to a scandal when it was revealed that it was that of a journalist critical of the authorities. The President was heard on tapes, made covertly in his office, ordering violence to be undertaken against the journalist. The scandal led to the creation of a wide protest movement that culminated in the victory of democratic opposition parties in 2002. The democratic opposition, led by its presidential candidate Viktor Yushchenko, fought a bitter and fraudulent election campaign in 2004 during which he was poisoned. Widespread election fraud led to Europe’s largest protest movement since the Cold War which became known as the Orange Revolution, known after the campaign colour of the democratic opposition.

Free Download Paul Gunn, "Democratic Deliberation in the Modern World"
English | 2013 | ISBN: 1032927178 | EPUB | pages: 218 | 0.5 mb
Would ordinary citizens benefit if public decisions were increasingly based on an inclusive and fair exchange of reasons rather than mere voting or choices in the market? Debates amongst deliberative democrats often proceed as though this process of public reasoning is precisely what the democratic ideals of freedom and equality require. Less attention has been paid to whether an inclusive and fair exchange of reasons is possible in any realistic modern setting, and what the effects would be of trying to move democratic institutions in a deliberative direction. To examine these effects, the contributors to this collection of essays bring together a number of analyses of the practical implications of expanding deliberative processes. Some consider the prevailing epistemic conditions in modern societies and their likely effects on deliberative reasoning. Others discuss the politics of these societies, and especially the likely effects of existing political divisions on democratic deliberation. Lastly, the question of what we might hope to see – and what we might hope to avoid – from political argument is addressed. Considered together, these three foci should equip readers to decide whether deliberative democracy is feasible and, if so, if it is desirable.

Free Download John A. Farrell, "Tip O’Neill and the Democratic Century"
English | 2002 | ISBN: 0316185701 | EPUB | pages: 784 | 0.9 mb
A biography of the great politician and legendary Speaker of the House follows his career from the end of World War II to his struggles against Newt Gingrich.

Free Download Democratic Struggle, Institutional Reform, and State Resilience in the African Sahel By Leonardo A. Villalón, Rahmane Idrissa (eds.)
2020 | 230 Pages | ISBN: 1498569994 | EPUB | 1 MB
Long on the periphery of both academic research and international attention, the countries of the West African Sahel currently find themselves at the center of global concerns over security, terrorism, migration, and conflict. Since the early 1990s the Sahelian states have also been engaged in political struggles over the construction of democratic institutions. Edited by Leonardo A. Villalón and Abdourahmane Idrissa, Democratic Struggle, Institutional Reform, and State Resilience in the African Sahel addresses a key and little-studied question: How have the politics of democratization across the Francophone Sahel shaped processes of state-building, and with what effects on the resilience of state institutions? Starting from the premise that variation in the politics of institution building and institutional reform-although most frequently justified and debated in terms of democratization-have differing impact on the construction of resilient states , this book examines these processes in six francophone states of the Sahel: Senegal, Mauritania, Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger, and Chad. The contributors represent a set of distinguished scholars from across the region, many of whom have also been important actors in the struggles they analyze.

Free Download Sergiu Gherghina, Joakim Ekman, Olena Podolian, "Democratic Innovations in Central and Eastern Europe"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0367421674 | EPUB | pages: 132 | 0.9 mb
Democratic Innovations in Central and Eastern Europe expands research on democratic innovations by looking specifically at different forms of democratic innovations in Central and Eastern Europe.

Free Download Larbi Sadiki, "’Democratic Knowledge’ and Knowledge Production: Preliminary Reflections on Democratisation in North Africa"
English | 2018 | ISBN: 0367023873 | EPUB | pages: 132 | 0.2 mb
Sudden change in North Africa manifested through popular protests followed by the end of authoritarian regimes in Tunisia, Egypt and Libya revitalised the scholarly concern with democracy in the region. Democratisation and democracy received fresh attention in the ‘Arab Spring’. Arab citizens displayed their grasp and possession of ‘democratic knowledge’ in a bottom-up groundswell of activism against the wielding of power by authoritarian regimes. In this book, the investigation into democratic knowledge revolves around the idea that good government must be in the first instance rooted in a local system of knowledge. However, no privileging of the ‘local’ is offered here at the expense of the ‘democratic’. Each chapter illustrates the context-specific experiences which provide political actors with the wherewithal in actively learning democracy. The countries examined with reference to a socially constructed democratic knowledge include Algeria, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia and Egypt. Critical focus on local agency in North Africa during the ‘Arab Spring’ enables a shift from democratisation as an ideology to a ‘democratic learning turn’. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of North African Studies.

Free Download Jesse C. Ribot, Anne M. Larson, "Democratic Decentralisation through a Natural Resource Lens: Cases from Africa, Asia and Latin America"
English | 2009 | ISBN: 0415568269 | EPUB | pages: 268 | 0.6 mb
This book queries the state and effect of the global decentralization movement through the study of natural resource decentralizations in Africa, Asia and Latin America. This book was published as a special issue of the European Journal of Development Research.

Free Download Nancy Armstrong, "Novels in the Time of Democratic Writing: The American Example "
English | ISBN: 0812249763 | 2018 | 264 pages | PDF | 4 MB
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2018

Free Download Vladimir Gel’man, Anton Steen, "Elites and Democratic Development in Russia"
English | 2003 | pages: 225 | ISBN: 0415306981 | PDF | 0,8 mb
The transformation from Communist rule towards democratic development in Russia cannot be fully understood without taking the elites into full consideration. Elites and Democratic Development in Russia examines how elites support and challenge democracy and why they are crucial to Russian democracy in particular.

Free Download Hans A. Baer, "Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia: Transitioning to an Alternative World System"
English | ISBN: 1785336959 | 2017 | 314 pages | PDF | 1273 KB
As global economic and population growth continues to skyrocket, increasingly strained resources have made one thing clear: the desperate need for an alternative to capitalism. In Democratic Eco-Socialism as a Real Utopia, Hans Baer outlines the urgent need to reevaluate historical definitions of socialism, commit to social equality and justice, and prioritize environmental sustainability. Democatic eco-socialism, as he terms it, is a system capable of mobilizing people around the world, albeit in different ways, to prevent on-going human socio-economic and environmental degradation, and anthropogenic climate change.