Tag: Democratic

Free Download Carolyn Bassett, Marlea Clarke, "Post-colonial struggles for a democratic Southern Africa: Legacies of Liberation"
English | 2015 | ISBN: 1138913448 | EPUB | pages: 130 | 0.5 mb
National liberation, one of the grand narratives of the twentieth century, has left a weighty legacy of unfulfilled dreams. This bookexplores the ongoing struggle for legitimate, accountable political leaders in postcolonial Southern Africa, focusing on dilemmas arising when ex-liberation movements form the governments. While the spread of multi-party democracy to most countries in the region is to be celebrated, democratic practice often has been superficial – a limited, elitist politics that relies on the symbols of the liberation struggle to legitimate de facto one-party rule and authoritarian practices. Using country cases from Tanzania, Swaziland, Zimbabwe, South Africa and Zambia, the collection explores three subthemes relevant to postcolonial governance in Southern Africa: how the struggle for liberation shapes the character of political transformation, the nature of rule in one-party dominant states headed by former liberation movements, and the processes of governance and resistance in post-liberation contexts.

Free Download Timothy Kersey, "Constrained Elitism and Contemporary Democratic Theory"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138486434, 041572712X | EPUB | pages: 136 | 0.6 mb
Today, examples of the public’s engagement with political issues through commercial and communicative mechanisms have become increasingly common. In February 2012, the Susan G. Komen Foundation reversed a decision to cease funding of cancer screening programs through Planned Parenthood amidst massive public disapproval. The same year, restaurant chain Chic-fil-A became embroiled in a massive public debate over statements its President made regarding same-sex marriage. What exactly is going on in such public engagement, and how does this relate to existing ideas regarding the public sphere and political participation? Is the public becoming increasingly vocal in its complaints? Or are new relationships between the public and economic and political leaders emerging?

Free Download Public Policy in Democratic Backsliding: How Illiberal Populists Engage with the Policy Process
by Michelle Morais de Sá e Silva, Alexandre de Ávila Gomide
English | 2024 | ISBN: 3031657063 | 378 Pages | True PDF | 8.34 MB

Free Download John Frederick Martin, "Civil Rights And The Crisis Of Liberalism: The Democratic Party 1945-1976"
English | 2019 | ISBN: 0891584544, 036717099X | EPUB | pages: 301 | 0.6 mb
Civil Rights and the Crisis of Liberalism: The Democratic Party, 1945-1976 is about ideology and politics. It focuses on the civil rights issue in Democratic party politics from 1945 to 1976 but glances at a longer history to describe American liberalism.

Free Download Sumona Dasgupta, "Citizen Initiatives and Democratic Engagement: Experiences from India"
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1138664952 | EPUB | pages: 206 | 0.6 mb
This book looks at a series of citizen-led campaigns to provide information about and energise the institutions of local self-governance in India following the 73rd and 74th Amendment Acts. Staggering in their outreach and magnitude, the campaigns, popularly known as PEVACs (Pre-election Voters’ Awareness Campaigns), reached out to huge swathes of the population, particularly in rural India, through a unique network that incorporated civil-society organisations across the country, the media and the State Election Commission itself. The book journeys through the heat and dust of these extraordinary campaigns, drawing from a repertoire of field reports and interviews to reflect on the significance of this ‘experiment’ on deepening democracy in India. In particular, it analyses the methodology of the campaigns and posits that this itself became an extraordinary exercise in democratic practice, indicating the shape that deliberation and dialogic practices could actually take on the field. As the campaigns moved from district to district, through their street plays, posters, pamphlets, jagrut yatras, candidate-voter dialogues, rehearsals of voting procedures, setting up of information booths, and participatory workshops for newly elected representatives, a new dialogical experiment was born and shaped. By examining these campaigns, this book emphasises the idea that governance is not just the business of central (federal) governments but also of citizens outside the formal institutions of governance, without whose active participation democracy cannot be deepened.

Free Download Filip Milačić, "Stateness and Democratic Consolidation: Lessons from Former Yugoslavia"
English | 2022 | ISBN: 3031048210 | PDF | pages: 194 | 4.8 mb
This book argues that the unresolved stateness in the republics of the former Yugoslavia played a key role in determining the course and dynamics of their turbulent democratic transition. To support this claim, the authors develop a series of causal mechanisms. Subsequently, they analyze to what extent these causal mechanisms could be applied to other cases, like the one of Ukraine’s democratization.

Free Download Licia Cianetti, James Dawson, Seán Hanley, "Rethinking ‘Democratic Backsliding’ in Central and Eastern Europe"
English | 2020 | ISBN: 0367671557, 0367210002 | EPUB | pages: 138 | 0.5 mb
This book seeks to inject fresh thinking into the debate on democratic deterioration in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), viewing ‘democratic backsliding’ through the prism of a range of cases beyond Hungary and Poland, to redress the imbalance in current scholarship.

Free Download Empowering Affected Interests: Democratic Inclusion in a Globalized World
by Archon Fung, Sean W. D. Gray
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1009454013 | 296 Pages | True PDF | 1.24 MB

Free Download Howard Zinn, "Howard Zinn on Democratic Education"
English | 2005 | ISBN: 1594510555, 1594510547 | EPUB | pages: 220 | 0.6 mb
Perhaps no other historian has had a more profound and revolutionary impact on American education than Howard Zinn. This is the first book devoted to his views on education and its role in a democratic society. Howard Zinn on Democratic Education describes what is missing from school textbooks and in classrooms-and how we move beyond these deficiencies to improve student education. Critical skills of citizenship are insufficiently developed in schools, according to Zinn. Textbooks and curricula must be changed to transcend the recitation of received wisdom too common today in schools. In these respects, recent Bush Administration and educational policies of most previous US presidents have been on the wrong track in meeting educational needs. This book seeks to redefine national goals at a time when public debates over education have never been more polarised-nor higher in public visibility and contentious debate. Zinn’s essays on education-many never before published-are framed in this book by a dialogue between Zinn and Donaldo Macedo, a distinguished critic of literacy and schooling, whose books with Paulo Freire, Noam Chomsky and other authors have received international acclaim.

Free Download Lotar Rasiński, "Wittgenstein and Democratic Politics: Language, Dialogue and Political Forms of Life "
English | ISBN: 103277889X | 2024 | 316 pages | EPUB, PDF | 3 MB + 2 MB
This volume demonstrates how Wittgenstein’s philosophy can illuminate our understanding of politics and open new ways of conceptualizing democratic theory and practice. Its focus is on language, reason and communication as central to identifying present confusions in our understanding of democracy.